Method for Monitoring Main Machine, Monitoring Apparatus and Main Machine

• US 20100302002A1
• Filed: 08/02/2010
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yulong Computer Telecommunication Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
• Original Assignee: Yulong Computer Telecommunication Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
• Inventors: Zhang, Bijun, Zhao, Yantao, Zhou, Zuohua, Guo, Deying, Ye, Jianrong, Wang, Dengke, Chen, Huaxing, Yang, Penghui, Fang, Chundong, Li, Jun, Zhang, Wei
• Application Number:
  US12/848,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20100302002A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/7.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

A method for monitoring a main machine, a monitoring apparatus and a main machine are provided. The method for monitoring the main machine includes paging, by a monitoring apparatus, a main machine within an effective area, returning, by a main machine being paged, apparatus information of the main machine; determining at least one main machine as a monitored main machine according to the apparatus information returned by the at least one main machine; establishing a monitoring connection relationship with each monitored main machine; and monitoring an emergent event of the at least one monitored main machine or inquiring about a working status of the at least one monitored main machine by using the monitoring connection relationship established.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a main machine, comprising:

paging by a monitoring apparatus, a main machine within an effective area, receiving, by the monitoring apparatus, from a main machine being paged, apparatus information of the main machine;

determining at least one main machine as a monitored main machine according to the apparatus information returned by the at least one main machine;

establishing a monitoring connection relationship with each monitored main machine; and

monitoring an emergent event of the at least one monitored main machine or inquiring about a working status of the at least one monitored main machine, by using the monitoring connection relationship established.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring the emergent event of the at least one monitored main machine or inquiring about the working status of the at least one monitored main machine by using the monitoring connection relationship established comprises:

according to monitored functional item information of each monitored main machine, monitoring the emergent event corresponding to the monitored functional item information of each monitored main machine or inquiring about the working status corresponding to the monitored functional item information of each monitored main machine.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring the emergent event of the at least one monitored main machine or inquiring about the working status of the at least one monitored main machine by using the monitoring connection relationship is performed in a main machine reporting manner or a monitoring apparatus inquiring manner.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the monitoring the emergent event of the monitored main machine in the main machine reporting manner comprises:

receiving an emergent event transmitted from the monitored main machine;

display the emergent event transmitted from the monitored main machine to a user;

receiving a process result of the user to the emergent event; and

returning the process result to the monitored main machine.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein inquiring about the working status of the monitored main machine in the monitoring apparatus inquiring manner comprises:

transmitting a monitored event inquiring list to the monitored main machine, wherein the monitored event inquiring list comprises monitored functional item information; and

receiving working status information transmitted from the monitored main machine, wherein the working status information is collected by the monitored main machine according to the monitored event inquiring list received.

6. The method of claim 2, before monitoring the emergent event of the monitored main machine corresponding to the monitored functional item information or inquiring about the working status of the monitored main machine corresponding to the monitored functional item information according to the monitored functional item information of the monitored main machine, the method further comprises:

transmitting a functional item inquiry command to the monitored main machine, requesting the monitored main machine to return the functional item information of the monitored main machine;

receiving the functional item information of the monitored main machine transmitted by the monitored main machine; and

selecting one or more items from the functional item information transmitted by the monitored main machine, and taking the selected one or more items of the functional item information as the monitored functional item information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the receiving the functional item information of the monitored main machine transmitted by the monitored main machine comprises:

receiving the functional item information and an ID uniquely corresponding to each piece of function item information transmitted by the monitored main machine;

the selecting one or more items from the functional item information transmitted by the monitored main machine comprises;

selecting one ore more items of the functional item information transmitted by the monitored main machine according to the ID uniquely corresponding to each piece of functional item information.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

providing a man-machine interface for a user to display the emergent event or the working status corresponding to the monitored functional item information of the at least one monitored main machine.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring the emergent event of the at least one monitored main machine or inquiring about the working status of the at least one monitored main machine is performed under communication authentication permission granted for the monitoring apparatus by the at least one monitored main machine.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the communication authentication permission granted to the monitoring apparatus comprises at least one service and permission selected by the monitored main machine.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

recording, by the monitored main machine, a relationship between the monitoring apparatus and the communication authentication permission granted for the monitoring apparatus;

when receiving an application request transmitted by the monitoring apparatus, determining, by the monitored main machine, according to the relationship between the monitoring apparatus and the communication authentication permission granted for the monitoring apparatus, whether the application request transmitted by the monitoring apparatus is permitted by communication authentication permission granted for the monitoring apparatus, if the application request is permitted, executing the application request transmitted by the monitoring apparatus;

otherwise, releasing the monitoring connection relationship with the monitoring apparatus;

wherein the application request is adapted to monitor the emergent event of the monitored main machine or inquire about the working status of the monitored main machine.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring apparatus is a multimedia player;

and the method further comprises;

the multimedia player searching for audio/video files in the monitored main machine, receiving the audio/video files from the monitored main machine and playing the audio/video files.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

after searching out the audio/video files in the monitored main machine, the multimedia player selecting one or more audio/video files from the audio/video files searched out according to a user'"'"'s selection;

wherein the receiving the audio/video files from the monitored main machine and playing the audio/video files comprises;

receiving the one or more audio/video files selected from the monitored main machine and playing the one or more audio/video files selected.

14. A monitoring apparatus, comprising:

a control module, a communication module and an inquiring module;

wherein

the control module is adapted to control communication between the communication module and the inquiring module;

the communication module is adapted to establish a monitoring connection relationship with a monitored main machine; and

the inquiring module is adapted to transmit, during establishment of the monitoring connection relationship with the monitored main machine, a searching command and a request requesting the monitored main machine to return apparatus information of the monitored main machine to the monitored main machine, and adapted to monitor, after the monitoring connection relationship is established with the monitored main machine, an emergent event of the monitored main machine or inquire about a working status of the monitored main machine.

15. The monitoring apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a display module, adapted to display working status information or emergent event information returned by the monitored main machine.

16. The monitoring apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

an alarming module, adapted to let out an alarm to remind a user when receiving the working status information or the emergent event information returned by the monitored main machine.

17. The monitoring apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a monitored event menu configuring module, adapted to transmit a functional item inquiry command to the monitored main machine, receive functional item information returned by the monitored main machine, and configure a monitored event menu for the monitored main machine according to the functional item information returned by the monitored main machine; and

the inquiring module is further adapted to monitor the emergent event of the monitored main machine or inquire about the working status of the monitored main machine according to the monitored event menu of the monitored main machine configured by the monitored event menu configuring module.

18. The monitoring apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a storage module, adapted to store the monitored event menu and monitored data of the monitored main machine.

19. The monitoring apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

an inputting module, adapted to input an operation command of a user and transmit the operation command to the control module; and

the control module is further adapted to perform information processing for the operation command inputted by the user through the inputting module.

20. The monitoring apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

an authentication module, adapted to perform an identity authentication to the monitored main machine when establishing the communication connection with the monitored main machine.

21. The monitoring apparatus of claims 14, further comprising:

an audio module, adapted to receive voice information inputted by a user, transmit the voice information inputted by the user to the control module for processing, transmit processed voice information to the monitored main machine through the communication module, and output voice information which is received by the communication module and processed by the control module to the user.

22. The monitoring apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a power supply, adapted to provide power to each module in the monitoring apparatus monitoring apparatus.

23. A main machine, comprising:

a communication module, a detecting module and a response control module;

wherein

the communication module is adapted to establish a monitoring connection relationship with a monitoring apparatus performing a monitoring task;

the detecting module is adapted to detect, during establishment of the monitoring connection relationship with the monitoring apparatus, whether a searching command is transmitted by the monitoring apparatus, and adapted to detect, after the establishment of the monitoring connection relationship with the monitoring apparatus, whether a monitored event inquiring list is received from the monitoring apparatus or whether there is an emergent event happens in the main machine; and

the response control module is adapted to transmit apparatus information of the main machine to the monitoring apparatus through the communication module when the detecting module detects the searching command transmitted by the monitoring apparatus, inquire about and collect working status information of the main machine and transmit the working status information to the monitoring apparatus through the communication module when the detecting module detects that the monitored event inquiring list is received from the monitoring apparatus, or transmit emergent event information to the monitoring apparatus through the communication module when the detecting module detects that the emergent event happens in the main machine.

24. The main machine of claim 23, further comprising:

a monitored item matching module, adapted to return a functional item needs to be monitored to the monitoring apparatus when the detecting module detects a functional item inquiry command transmitted by the monitoring apparatus, to cooperate with monitoring apparatus to implement configuration of a monitored event menu; and

the detecting module is further adapted to detect whether the functional item inquiry command is received from the monitoring apparatus.

25. The main machine of claim 23, further comprising:

a main machine controlling module, adapted to configure communication authentication permission for the monitoring apparatus;

a communication determining module, adapted to determine whether an application request transmitted by the monitoring apparatus is permitted by the communication authentication permission possessed by the monitoring apparatus according to the communication authentication permission configured by the main machine controlling module for the monitoring apparatus, execute the application request transmitted by the monitoring apparatus if the application request is permitted, and release the monitoring connection relationship with the monitoring apparatus if the application request is not permitted.

26. The main machine of claim 25, further comprising:

a binding module, adapted to bind the main machine with the monitoring apparatus.

27. The main machine of claim 25, wherein the main machine controlling module comprises:

a selecting and granting unit, adapted to select a service and permission to be granted to the monitoring apparatus;

a permission recording unit, adapted to generate a trust field according to the service and permission selected by the selecting and granting unit for the monitoring apparatus to record the service and permission selected for the monitoring apparatus;

a permission transmitting unit, adapted to transmit the service and permission selected for the monitoring apparatus to the monitoring apparatus.

28. The main machine of claim 26, wherein the binding module comprises:

a main machine initializing unit, adapted to initialize the communication module;

a search unit, adapted to search for the monitoring apparatus within an effective area; and

a binding determining unit, adapted to determine, if the search unit finds the monitoring apparatus, whether to establish a link key connection with the monitoring apparatus according to a key inputted by a user, and bind the main machine with the monitoring apparatus if it is determined to establish a link key connection.