SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ERRORS UTILIZING AUGMENTED REALITY

• US 20120256953A1
• Filed: 04/07/2011
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: MOLANDER, Mark E., MESERTH, Timothy A., WINDELL, David T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,913,086 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/633
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/07 Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0772 Means for error signaling, e.g. using interrupts, exception flags, dedicated error registers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/32 with visual or acoustical indication of the functioning of the machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

Systems for managing errors utilizing augmented reality are provided. One system includes a transceiver configured to communicate with a systems management console, capture device for capturing environmental inputs, memory storing code comprising an augmented reality module, and a processor. The processor, when executing the code comprising the augmented reality module, is configured to perform the method below. One method includes capturing an environmental input, identifying a target device in the captured environmental input, and querying the systems management console regarding a status condition for the target device. Also provided are physical computer storage mediums including a computer program product for performing the above method.

Claims

1. A system for managing errors utilizing augmented reality, comprising:

a transceiver configured to communicate with a systems management console;

a capture device for capturing environmental inputs;

memory storing code comprising an augmented reality module; and

a processor coupled to the transceiver, the capture device, and the memory, wherein the processor, when executing the code comprising the augmented reality module, is configured to;

capture an environmental input via the capture device,

identify a target device in the captured environmental input, and

query, utilizing the transceiver, the systems management console regarding a status condition of the target device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the capture device is one of an audio capturing device, a visual capturing device, and a tactile capturing device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the capture device is a camera and the environmental input is a visual image.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein, when identifying the target device, the processor is configured to identify the target device via one of a bar code, a radio frequency identifier, and a position of the target device.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a display coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive, via the transceiver, information regarding the status condition from the systems management console; and

display, via the display, the information regarding the status condition.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising an input device coupled to the processor, the input device configured to receive inputs from a user, wherein the processor is further configured to:

synthesize the received information and the captured environmental input;

receive, via the input device, an input from a user for troubleshooting the status condition when the status condition is a fault condition; and

transmit, via the transceiver, the input to the systems management console.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein:

the system comprises one of a cellular telephone, a laptop computing device, and a tablet computing device; and

the input device is one of a keyboard, a touch screen associated with the display, and a computing mouse.

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15. A physical computer storage medium comprising a computer program product method for managing errors utilizing augmented reality in a system including a transceiver configured to communicate with a systems management console, a capture device for capturing environmental inputs, memory storing code comprising an augmented reality module, and a processor coupled to the transceiver, the capture device, and the memory, the physical computer storage medium comprising:

computer code for capturing an environmental input via the capture device;

computer code for identifying, via the processor, a target device in the captured environmental input; and

computer code for querying, by the processor utilizing the transceiver, the systems management console regarding a status condition of the target device.

16. The physical computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the computer code for identifying the target device comprises computer code for identifying the target device via one of a bar code, a radio frequency identifier, and a position of the target device.

17. The physical computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the system further comprises a display coupled to the processor, the physical computer storage medium further comprising:

computer code for receiving, via the transceiver, information regarding the status condition from the systems management console; and

computer code for displaying, via the display, the information regarding the status condition.

18. The physical computer storage medium of claim 17, wherein the system further comprises input device coupled to the processor, the input device configured to receive inputs from a user, the physical computer storage medium further comprising:

computer code for synthesizing the received information and the captured environmental input;

computer code for receiving an input from a user for troubleshooting the status condition when the status condition is a fault condition; and

computer code for transmitting the input to the systems management console.

19. The physical computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the computer code for capturing the environmental input comprises computer code for capturing the environmental input utilizing one of an audio capturing device, a visual capturing device, and a tactile capturing device.

20. The physical computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the computer code for capturing the environmental input comprises computer code for capturing a visual image of the target device utilizing a camera.