Peripheral monitoring device and computer system having the same

• US 20030126317A1
• Filed: 03/22/2002
• Published: 07/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IEI Integration Corp.
• Original Assignee: IEI Integration Corp.
• Inventors: Chang, Ming-Chih
• Application Number:
  US10/104,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20030126317A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/348 Circuit details, i.e. tracer hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/349 for interfaces, buses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting

Abstract

A peripheral monitoring device and a computer system having the peripheral monitoring device. The peripheral monitoring device has a filtering device and a CPU, in which the filtering device is connected to the peripheral device via a peripheral interface of the computer system to selectively filter peripheral data transmitted via the peripheral interface, and the CPU is connected to the filtering device to control the filtering device to selectively transceive the data transmitted via the peripheral interface.

Claims

1. A peripheral monitoring device for a computer system with a peripheral device, comprising:

a filtering device connected to a peripheral interface of the computer system to selectively filter data transmitted via the peripheral interface; and

a CPU connected to the filtering device to control the filtering device to selectively transceive the data transmitted via the peripheral interface.

2. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a video camera to video-capture surroundings; and

a microphone to sound-capture surroundings.

3. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the peripheral device is an input device.

4. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 3, wherein the input device is a keyboard, a mouse, a video camera or a microphone.

5. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the peripheral device is an output device.

6. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 5, wherein the output device is a display or a printer.

7. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 1, further comprising storage to store the data transmitted via the peripheral interface.

8. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 7, wherein the storage is random-access memory (RAM).

9. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 7, wherein the storage is flash memory.

10. The peripheral monitoring device according to claim 7, wherein the storage is a hard disk.

11. A computer system with a peripheral device connected thereto, comprising:

a first CPU;

a peripheral interface connecting the first CPU and the peripheral device to perform transmission of data between the first CPU and the peripheral device; and

a peripheral monitoring device, comprising;

a filtering device connected to the peripheral interface of the computer system to selectively filter the data transmitted via the peripheral interface; and

a second CPU connected to the filtering device to control the filtering device to selectively transceive the data transmitted via the peripheral interface.

12. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the peripheral monitoring device further comprises storage to store the data transceived by the second CPU.

13. The computer system according to claim 12, wherein the storage is random-access memory (RAM), flash memory, or a hard disk.

14. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the peripheral monitoring device further comprises:

a video camera to video-capture surrounding image of the computer system; and

a microphone to sound-capture surrounding sound of the computer system.

15. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the peripheral device is an input device.

16. The computer system according to claim 15, wherein the input device is a keyboard, a mouse, a video camera or a microphone.

17. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the peripheral device is an output device.

18. The computer system according to claim 17, wherein the output device is a display or a printer.

20. The computer system according to claim 11, wherein the peripheral monitoring device is remotely controlled by a remote computer via network.