ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING SERVERS AGAINST VIBRATION DAMAGE

• US 20130097454A1
• Filed: 11/25/2011
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: FAN, CHAO-TSUNG
• Granted Patent: US 8,769,348 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1402 Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3058 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring environmental properties or parameters of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring of power, currents, temperature, humidity, position, vibrations thermal management in cooling arrangements of a computing system G06F1/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3093 Configuration details thereof, e.g. installation, enabling, spatial arrangement of the probes

Abstract

An electronic device capable of communicating with a plurality of servers includes a storage unit, a vibration unit, a control unit, and a communication unit. The storage unit stores a vibration threshold value. The vibration sensor senses a vibration magnitude of the electronic device. The control unit generates control signals and transmits the control signals to the servers via the communication unit to direct the servers to take certain actions to protect data when the vibration magnitude sensed by the vibration sensor is equal to or greater than the vibration threshold value.

Claims

1. An electronic device capable of communicating with a plurality of servers, comprising:

a storage unit storing a vibration threshold value;

a vibration sensor to sense a vibration magnitude of the electronic device;

a communication unit; and

a control unit to generate control signals and transmit the control signals to the servers via the communication unit to direct the servers to take certain actions to protect data when the vibration magnitude sensed by the vibration sensor is equal to or greater than the vibration threshold value.

2. The electronic device as described in claim 1, wherein the vibration sensor senses vibration magnitude in three dimensions, and the control unit is to generate control signals to direct the servers to take certain actions to protect data if the vibration magnitude in at least one of the three dimensions is equal to or greater than the vibration threshold value.

3. The electronic device as described in claim 2, wherein the control signals comprise a signal for saving data, a signal for closing applications which are currently running, and a signal for shutting down the servers.

4. The electronic device as described in claim 3, wherein the vibration sensor is a three-axis gyroscope.

5. A method for protecting servers against vibration damage applied in an electronic device, the electronic device communicating with the servers, the method comprising:

sensing a vibration magnitude of the electronic device; and

generating control signals and transmitting the control signals to the servers to direct the servers to take certain actions to protect data when the sensed vibration magnitude is equal to or greater than a vibration threshold value.

6. The method as described in claim 5, wherein the vibration magnitude is sensed in three dimensions, and the control signals are generated if the vibration magnitude in at least one of the three dimensions is equal to or greater than the vibration threshold value.

7. The method as described in claim 5, wherein the control signals comprise a signal for saving data, a signal for closing applications which are currently running, and a signal for shutting down the servers.