Remote data scope

• US 20040017797A1
• Filed: 09/25/2002
• Published: 01/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MOXA Technologies Co. Ltd. (Moxa Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MOXA Technologies Co. Ltd. (Moxa Inc.)
• Inventors: Liu, Wen-Shuai, Chen, Ming-Chuang
• Application Number:
  US10/253,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20040017797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/350
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/351 for local area network [LAN], e.g. Ethernet switches
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/00 Systems for electrical power generation, transmission, distribution or end-user application management characterised by the use of communication or information technologies, or communication or information technology specific aspects supporting them

Abstract

A remote data scope by installing a remote monitor equipment and an Ethernet switch in an Ethernet to monitor working status of remote equipments (computers or power generators, etc.) at terminals of the Ethernet. The Ethernet switch includes a packets switching mechanism adapted to copy working status packets of the remote equipments, a processor, a packets conversion mechanism controlled by the processor to convert the format of working status packets from the remote equipments, and communication systems adapted to transmit working status packets from the remote equipments to the packets switching mechanism and formatted working status packets from the packets conversion mechanism to the remote monitor equipment, for enabling the remote monitor equipment to unpack received formatted working status packets so as to obtain working status of the remote equipments.

Claims

1. A remote data scope by installing a remote monitor equipment and an Ethernet switch in an Ethernet to monitor working status of at least one remote equipment at a respective terminal of said Ethernet, wherein said Ethernet switch comprises a packets switching mechanism adapted to copy working status packets of said at least one remote equipment, a processor, a packets conversion mechanism controlled by said processor to convert the format of working status packets from said at least one remote equipment, and communication systems adapted to transmit working status packets from said at least one remote equipment to said packets switching mechanism through said Ethernet and formatted working status packets from said packets conversion mechanism to said remote monitor equipment through said Ethernet, for enabling said remote monitor equipment to unpack received formatted working status packets so as to obtain working status of said at least one remote equipment.

2. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 1, wherein said remote monitor equipment is a computer.

3. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one remote equipment is respectively a computer.

4. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one remote equipment is respectively a power generator.

5. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 1, wherein said Ethernet switch further comprises a plurality of ports respectively connected to said packets switching mechanism and said at least one remote equipment, for enabling said packets switching mechanism to copy working status packets of said at least one remote equipment.

6. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 5, wherein said Ethernet switch further comprises a read only memory and a random access memory respectively connected to said processor, for enabling said processor to store processing data in said random access memory temporarily, and processed storage data in said read only memory.

7. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 6, wherein said read only memory is a flash memory.

8. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 6, wherein said random access memory is a SDRAM.

9. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 1, wherein said communication systems of said Ethernet switch are fiber optic converters.

10. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 1, wherein said communication systems of said Ethernet switch are twisted-pair cable connectors (RJ45).

11. The remote data scope as claimed in claim 1, wherein said Ethernet switch is an Ethernet router.