Environment-responsive method for maintaining an electronic device
First Claim
1. A method of indicating operational status of an electronic device, the method comprising the following steps:
- monitoring an environmental condition of the device;
performing a plurality of self-tests at a plurality of monitored environmental conditions, to obtain self-test results;
determining from results of the performing step whether the device operational status is acceptable or unacceptable at each monitored environmental condition;
storing an association of self-test results and environmental conditions at which the self-tests were performed;
indicating operational status of the electronic device for a partially monitored environmental condition based on the stored self-test results,wherein the plurality of self-tests comprise one or more different tests.
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Abstract
A method of indicating operational status of an electronic device, the device providing an indication of device operational status as a result of a self-test, the method including the following steps: monitoring an environmental condition; changing an indication of device operational status from a first indication to a second indication if the monitored environmental condition changes from a first condition to a second condition, this changing step being performed without performing a self-test. In certain embodiments, the monitored environmental condition is a monitored temperature, the first condition is a first temperature and the second condition is a second temperature. The electronic device may be battery-operated, in which case the self-test is a battery capacity test. In these embodiments, the method also may include the step of performing the battery capacity test when the monitored temperature reaches the second temperature if there is no indication of device operational status corresponding to the second temperature stored in memory, the second temperature is lower than a temperature associated with an indication of a non-waning device operational status stored in memory, and the second temperature is higher than a temperature associated with an indication of a warning operational status; and indicating device operational status as a result of the battery capacity test. The method may also include the step of storing in memory an association between the second temperature and device operational status.
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14 Claims
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1. A method of indicating operational status of an electronic device, the method comprising the following steps:
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monitoring an environmental condition of the device; performing a plurality of self-tests at a plurality of monitored environmental conditions, to obtain self-test results; determining from results of the performing step whether the device operational status is acceptable or unacceptable at each monitored environmental condition; storing an association of self-test results and environmental conditions at which the self-tests were performed; indicating operational status of the electronic device for a partially monitored environmental condition based on the stored self-test results, wherein the plurality of self-tests comprise one or more different tests. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of indicating operational status of an electronic device, the method comprising the following steps:
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monitoring an environmental condition of the device; performing a self-test at the monitored environmental condition; determining a self-test result from the self-test, the self-test result being a device operational status of acceptable or unacceptable; and storing an association of the self-test result and environmental condition at which the self-test was performed; repeating the above steps at a plurality of different monitored environmental conditions; and indicating operational status of the electronic device based on the stored self-test result at a presently monitored environmental condition. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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