Remote video monitoring system running on blade PC infrastructure
First Claim
1. A controlling method for a centralized computer system, the centralized computer system comprising a network, N hosts, N host switches connecting with the N hosts and linking to the network, N first I/O peripheral switches linking to the network, N first sets of I/O peripherals, a second peripheral switch linking to the network, and a second set of I/O peripherals, each first set of I/O peripherals connecting with one of the N first peripheral switches, the second set of I/O peripherals connecting with the second peripheral switch, the second set of I/O peripherals comprising a display electrically connecting with the second peripheral switch, N being a natural number, one of the N first sets of I/O peripherals being assigned to operate one of the N hosts such that a plurality of I/O signals transmitted, via the network, between the host and the assigned first set of I/O peripherals are encoded and decoded by the host switch connecting with the host and the first peripheral switch connecting with the assigned first set of I/O peripherals, the controlling method, for video monitoring the N hosts by utilizing the display of the second set of I/O peripherals, comprising steps of:
- at each of the N host switches, down-sampling a video signal of the plurality of I/O signals, encoding the down-sampled video signal, and redirecting the encoded down-sampled video signal to the second peripheral switch via the network; and
at the second peripheral switch, receiving the N encoded down-sampled video signals transmitted from the N host switches respectively, decoding the encoded down-sampled video signals to obtain the N down-sampled video signals, producing a synthetic video signal by utilizing the N down-sampled video signals, and outputting the synthetic video signal to the display of the second set of I/O peripherals.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The invention is to provide a centralized computer system, i.e., the so-called blade PC system. The centralized computer system according to the invention includes a plurality of centralized and bladed hosts. In particularly, the centralized computer system according to the invention enables two sets of I/O peripherals to operate the same host in a hardware-driven way.
6 Citations
6 Claims
-
1. A controlling method for a centralized computer system, the centralized computer system comprising a network, N hosts, N host switches connecting with the N hosts and linking to the network, N first I/O peripheral switches linking to the network, N first sets of I/O peripherals, a second peripheral switch linking to the network, and a second set of I/O peripherals, each first set of I/O peripherals connecting with one of the N first peripheral switches, the second set of I/O peripherals connecting with the second peripheral switch, the second set of I/O peripherals comprising a display electrically connecting with the second peripheral switch, N being a natural number, one of the N first sets of I/O peripherals being assigned to operate one of the N hosts such that a plurality of I/O signals transmitted, via the network, between the host and the assigned first set of I/O peripherals are encoded and decoded by the host switch connecting with the host and the first peripheral switch connecting with the assigned first set of I/O peripherals, the controlling method, for video monitoring the N hosts by utilizing the display of the second set of I/O peripherals, comprising steps of:
-
at each of the N host switches, down-sampling a video signal of the plurality of I/O signals, encoding the down-sampled video signal, and redirecting the encoded down-sampled video signal to the second peripheral switch via the network; and at the second peripheral switch, receiving the N encoded down-sampled video signals transmitted from the N host switches respectively, decoding the encoded down-sampled video signals to obtain the N down-sampled video signals, producing a synthetic video signal by utilizing the N down-sampled video signals, and outputting the synthetic video signal to the display of the second set of I/O peripherals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
-
-
4. A centralized computer system, comprising:
-
a network; N hosts, N being a natural number; N host switches, each of the N host switches connecting with one of the N hosts and linking to the network; N first peripheral switches, the N first peripheral switches linking to the network respectively; N first sets of I/O peripherals, each of the N first sets of I/O peripherals electrically connecting with one of the N first peripheral switches; a second peripheral switch, linking to the network; and a second set of I/O peripherals, electrically connecting with the second peripheral switch and comprising a display; wherein one of the N first sets of I/O peripherals is assigned to operate one of the N hosts such that a plurality of I/O signals transmitted, via the network, between the host and the assigned first set of I/O peripherals are encoded and decoded by the host switch connecting with the host and the first peripheral switch connecting with the assigned first set of I/O peripherals; wherein each host switches down-samples a video signal of the plurality of I/O signals, encodes the down-sampled video signal, and redirects the encoded down-sampled video signal to the second peripheral switch via the network, and the second peripheral switch receives the N encoded down-sampled video signals transmitted from the N host switches respectively, decodes the encoded down-sampled video signals to obtain the N down-sampled video signals, produces a synthetic video signal by utilizing the N down-sampled video signals, and outputs the synthetic video signal to the display of the second set of I/O peripherals; and whereby the display of the second set of I/O peripherals is enabled to video monitor the N hosts. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6)
-
Specification