Method and apparatus to provide sound on a remote console

• US 20030131065A1
• Filed: 01/04/2002
• Published: 07/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited) (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Neufeld, E. David, Neufeld, Judy A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,149,814 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/208
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A technique is provided for emulating sound of a remote computer system, such as a server, on another computer system interfacing with the remote computer system via a network. The technique emulates sound of the remote computer system by using a standard audio format or by copying audio settings of the remote computer system to the interfacing computer system. For example, the input/output addresses, sound tables, and register settings of audio circuitry for the remote computer system may be detected, copied, transferred, and used by audio circuitry for the interfacing computer system.

Claims

1. A method for emulating sound of a remote computer system, the method comprising the acts of:

detecting audio settings of the remote computer system;

transmitting the audio settings to an interfacing computer system via a network; and

configuring audio circuitry of the interfacing computer system based on the audio settings.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of detecting audio settings of the remote computer system comprises the act of detecting settings of audio input/output registers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of detecting audio settings of the remote computer system comprises the act of detecting settings of sound synthesis registers.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of detecting audio settings of the remote computer system comprises the act of detecting sound tables.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising the act of copying audio settings corresponding to sound synthesizer registers and sound tables.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of configuring audio circuitry comprises the acts of:

programming registers of the audio circuitry to at least partially match register settings of the remote computer system; and

storing sound tables of the remote computer system at the interfacing computer system.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising the acts of:

capturing an audio command generated at the remote computer system;

transmitting the audio command to the interfacing computer system; and

processing the audio command via the audio circuitry based on the audio settings of the remote computer system.

8. The method of claim 7, comprising the act of playing the audio data at the interfacing computer system for a remote event occurring on the remote computer system.

9. A method for interacting with a remote computer system, comprising the acts of:

detecting audio data generated at a remote computer system in response to a system event;

processing and converting the audio data into standard audio data at the remote computer system;

transmitting the standard audio data to an interfacing computer system via a network; and

interpreting and playing the standard audio data at the interfacing computer system for interaction with the system event.

10. The method of claim 9, comprising the acts of:

detecting video data generated at the remote computer system;

transmitting the video data to the interfacing computer system via the network; and

displaying the video data at the interfacing computer system.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the act of detecting audio data comprises the act of capturing audio data directed to audio circuitry of the remote computer system.

12. The method of claim 9, comprising the act of remotely managing the remote computer system via the interfacing computer system.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the act of remotely managing the remote computer system comprises the act of interacting with a network management module disposed on the remote computer system.

14. A system for interacting with a remote computer system, comprising:

an audio configuration analysis module adapted to identify and copy audio settings of the remote computer system;

an audio configuration setup module adapted to configure audio circuitry of an interfacing computer system based on the audio settings; and

a remote management module adapted to provide real-time interaction between the remote computer system and the interfacing computer system.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the audio settings comprise register settings of audio registers for the remote computer system.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the audio settings comprise sound card access addresses for the remote computer system.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the audio settings comprise sound tables for sound synthesis at the remote computer system.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the remote computer system comprises a lights out management module for managing network resources.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the remote computer system and the interfacing computer system both comprise sound synthesis registers and sound tables.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the audio configuration analysis module and the audio configuration setup module are adapted to emulate interaction between the remote computer system and audio circuitry of the remote computer system.