Electronic device and method for protecting servers against vibration damage

• US 8,769,348 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2011
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Manoskey, Joseph D
• Application Number:
  US13/304,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20130097454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 714/6.11, 714/25, 714/30, 714/40, 714/42, 714/47.1, 714/47.2, 714/47.3
• US Class Current: 714/47.2
• 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 comprising:

a storage unit storing a vibration threshold value;

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

a communication unit to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of servers; 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, and the control signals comprising a signal for saving data of the servers, a signal for closing applications which are currently running on the servers, and a signal for shutting down the servers.

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 vibration sensor is a three-axis gyroscope.

4. A method for protecting a plurality of servers against vibration damage applied in an electronic device, the electronic device wirelessly communicating with the plurality of 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, and the control signals comprising a signal for saving data of the servers, a signal for closing applications which are currently running on the servers, and a signal for shutting down the servers.

5. The method as described in claim 4, 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.