PORTABLE COMPUTER MONITORING

• US 20140361978A1
• Filed: 05/02/2014
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GlobalFoundries, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Walker, James W., Malarky, Chris, Nattrass, Adam M.
• Application Number:
  US14/268,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20140361978A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/004 Error avoidance G06F11/07 and subgroups take precedence
• 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 11/3096 wherein the means or processing minimize the use of computing system or of computing system component resources, e.g. non-intrusive monitoring which minimizes the probe effect: sniffing, intercepting, indirectly deriving the monitored data from other directly available data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of predicting the condition of a portable computer comprising a motion sensor on a computer system, the method comprising collecting motion data from said motion sensor; periodically sending said collected motion data from the portable computer to the computer system; evaluating said motion data on the computer system; and predicting said condition from the evaluated motion data. Computer program products, a portable computer, and a system for implementing aspects of the method are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of predicting the condition of a portable computer comprising a motion sensor on a computer system, the method comprising:

collecting motion data from said motion sensor;

periodically sending said collected motion data from the portable computer to the computer system;

evaluating said motion data on the computer system; and

predicting said condition from the evaluated motion data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the motion sensor is a knock sensor of a hard disk drive of the portable computer.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising scheduling a service, a repair or a replacement of said portable computer based on said predicted condition.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the portable computer further comprises at least one further sensor for determining an operating parameter of a component of the portable computer, the method further comprising:

collecting operational data from said at least one further sensor;

periodically sending said collected operational data from the portable computer to the computer system; and

evaluating said operational data on the computer system; and

wherein the step of predicting said condition comprises predicting said condition from the evaluated motion and operational data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the operational data comprises at least one of battery health data, processing element temperature data and fan speed data.

6. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium including computer program code which when executed on a processing element of a portable computer comprising a motion sensor implements the steps of:

collecting motion data from said motion sensor; and

periodically sending said collected motion data from the portable computer to a remote computer system.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the portable computer further comprises at least one further sensor for determining an operating parameter of a component of the portable computer, the computer-readable storage medium further including computer program code which when executed on said processing element implements the steps of:

collecting operational data from said at least one further sensor; and

periodically sending said collected operational data from the portable computer to the remote computer system.

8. A portable computer comprising:

a motion sensor;

a processing element adapted to execute a computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium including computer program code implementing the steps of;

collecting motion data from said motion sensor; and

periodically sending said collected motion data from the portable computer to a remote computer system; and

a network interface for connecting the portable computer to a remote computer system, wherein the processing element is adapted to periodically send the collected motion data to the remote computer system through said network interface.

9. The portable computer of claim 8, further comprising a hard disk drive, and wherein the motion sensor is a knock sensor of the hard disk drive.

10. The portable computer of claim 8, further comprising at least one further sensor for determining an operating parameter of a component of the portable computer.