APPLICATION SERVER AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING MACHINE DATA

• US 20110161350A1
• Filed: 06/29/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GDS Software Company Limited, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: GDS Software Company Limited, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tang, Jian-Feng, Wang, Xu-Kun, Wang, Rui-Jun, Wang, Chi-Chih
• Application Number:
  US12/826,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20110161350A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

An application server and method collects and stores machine data from one or more machines. The application server sends a data acquisition command to a sensor of the searched machine to acquire the machine data of the searched machine, in response to a determination that the machine has been found according to a search command. The application server updates the machine data file with the acquired machine data, and transfers the updated machine data file to a database system.

Claims

1. An application server, comprising:

a storage system storing a machine data file;

at least one processor; and

a data collection unit stored in the storage system and being executable by the at least one processor, the data collection unit comprising;

a sending module operable to send a connection command to electronically connect the application server to a data collector;

a search module operable to send a search command to the data collector to search for a machine being electronically connected to the data collector in response to a determination that the application server is electronically connected to the data collector;

an obtaining module operable to send a data acquisition command to a sensor of the searched machine to acquire machine data of the searched machine, in response to a determination that the searched machine has been found;

an updating module operable to update the machine data file with the acquired machine data, in response to a determination that the acquired machine data is different from the machine data file; and

a transferring module operable to transfer the updated machine data file to a database system.

2. The system of claim 1, the data collection unit further comprises a notification module operable to send an alert notification to a user, in response to a determination that the application server has not been connected to the data collector.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the application server is connected to the data collector upon the condition that an acknowledgement message from the data collector is received by the application server.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the searched machine has been found upon the condition that a feedback message from the searched machine is received by the data collector.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the machine data comprise a power consumption of the machine, a number of products being produced by the machine, a status of the machine, and a utilization rate of the machine.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the machine data file is a TXT file, a WORD file, and an EXCEL file.

7. A computer-based method for collecting machine data, the method comprising:

sending a connection command to electronically connect an application server to a data collector;

sending a search command to the data collector to search for a machine being electronically connected to the data collector in response to a determination that the application server is electronically connected to the data collector;

sending a data acquisition command to a sensor of the searched machine to acquire the machine data of the searched machine, in response to a determination that the searched machine has been found;

updating a machine data file with the acquired machine data, in response to a determination that the acquired machine data is different from the machine data file; and

transferring the updated machine data file to a database system.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising sending an alert notification to a user, in response to a determination that the application server is not connected to the data collector.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the application server is connected to the data collector upon the condition that an acknowledgement message from the data collector is received by the application server.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the searched machine has been found upon the condition that a feedback message from the searched machine is received by the data collector.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the machine data comprise a power consumption of the machine, a number of products being produced by the machine, a status of the machine, and a utilization rate of the machine.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the machine data file is a TXT file, a WORD file and an EXCEL file.

13. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing device, causing the computing device to perform a data collection method, the method comprising:

sending a connection command to electronically connect an application server to a data collector;

sending a search command to the data collector to search for a machine being electronically connected to the data collector in response to a determination that the application server is electronically connected to the data collector;

sending a data acquisition command to a sensor of the searched machine to acquire the machine data of the searched machine, in response to a determination that the searched machine has been found;

updating a machine data file with the acquired machine data, in response to a determination that the acquired machine data is different from the machine data file; and

transferring the updated machine data file to a database system.

14. The medium of claim 13, further comprising the method of sending an alert notification to a user, in response to a determination that the application server has not been connected to the data collector.

15. The medium of claim 13, wherein the application server is connected to the data collector upon the condition that an acknowledgement message from the data collector is received by the application server.

16. The medium of claim 13, wherein the searched machine has been found upon the condition that a feedback message from the searched machine is received by the data collector.

17. The medium of claim 13, wherein the machine data comprise a power consumption of the machine, a number of products being produced by the machine, a status of the machine, and a utilization rate of the machine.

18. The medium of claim 13, wherein the machine data file is a TXT file, a WORD file, and an EXCEL file.