Evaluating the health status of a system using groups of vibration data including images of the vibrations of the system
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1. A method for determining a health of a system comprising:
- identifying groups of vibration data for the system, wherein a group of vibration data in the groups of vibration data comprises data for vibrations of the system at different frequencies over time, and wherein the groups of vibration data comprise images of the vibrations of the system;
storing the groups of vibration data for the system in a number of associative memories in a computer system, wherein the number of associative memories each comprise a type of memory having an organization in which data stored in a corresponding associative memory may be accessed based on both direct and indirect relationships among different data stored in the corresponding associative memory, wherein each of the number of associative memories comprise both the data and associations between the data, and wherein each of the number of associative memories also comprise a corresponding content-addressable structure that is configured to map a set of input patterns to a set of output patterns; and
identifying the health of the system based on the groups of vibration data in the number of associative memories.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining a health of the system. Groups of vibration data are identified for the system. A group of vibration data in the groups of vibration data comprises data for vibrations of the system at different frequencies over time. The groups of vibration data for the system are stored in a number of associative memories in a computer system. The health of the system is identified based on the groups of vibration data in the number of associative memories. The groups of vibration data include images of the vibrations of the system.
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1. A method for determining a health of a system comprising:
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identifying groups of vibration data for the system, wherein a group of vibration data in the groups of vibration data comprises data for vibrations of the system at different frequencies over time, and wherein the groups of vibration data comprise images of the vibrations of the system; storing the groups of vibration data for the system in a number of associative memories in a computer system, wherein the number of associative memories each comprise a type of memory having an organization in which data stored in a corresponding associative memory may be accessed based on both direct and indirect relationships among different data stored in the corresponding associative memory, wherein each of the number of associative memories comprise both the data and associations between the data, and wherein each of the number of associative memories also comprise a corresponding content-addressable structure that is configured to map a set of input patterns to a set of output patterns; and identifying the health of the system based on the groups of vibration data in the number of associative memories. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for determining a health of a system, the method comprising:
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storing spectrographic images of vibrations of the system in a number of associative memories in a computer system; and identifying the health of the system based on the spectrographic images stored in the number of associative memories. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A computer health monitoring system comprising:
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a number of associative memories configured by the computer to store groups of vibration data for a system, wherein the number of associative memories each comprise a type of memory having an organization in which data stored in a corresponding associative memory may be accessed based on both direct and indirect relationships among different data stored in the corresponding associative memory, wherein each of the number of associative memories comprise both the data and associations between the data, and wherein each of the number of associative memories also comprise a corresponding content-addressable structure that is configured to map a set of input patterns to a set of output patterns, and wherein a group of vibration data in the groups of vibration data comprises data for vibrations of the system at different frequencies over time, and wherein the groups of vibration data comprise images of the vibrations of the system; and a health analyzer, comprising a processor connected to the number of associative memories, configured to identify a health of the system based on the groups of vibration data in the number of associative memories. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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