Systems and methods for managing computing systems utilizing augmented reality

• US 9,219,665 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2014
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Globalfoundries US Incorporated (GlobalFoundries, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Windell, David T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Miah, Razu A
• Application Number:
  US14/249,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20140218399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0751 Error or fault detection not based on redundancy power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0769 Readable error formats, e.g. cross-platform generic formats, human understandable formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/079 Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/22 Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/12 Classification; Matching
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10004 Still image; Photographic image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30108 Industrial image inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2215/16 Using real world measurements to influence rendering
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 2201/02 Recognising information on displays, dials, clocks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0654 using network fault recovery ring fault isolation or reconfiguration in loop networks without recovery actions by a network management system H04L12/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0686 Additional information in the notification, e.g. enhancement of specific meta-data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0823 Errors, e.g. transmission errors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing computing systems are provided. One system includes a capture device for capturing environmental inputs, memory storing code comprising a management module, and a processor. The processor, when executing the code comprising the management module, is configured to perform the method below. One method includes capturing an environmental input, identifying a target device in the captured environmental input, and comparing the target device in the captured environmental input to a model of the target device. The method further includes recognizing, in real-time, a status condition of the target device based on the comparison and providing a user with troubleshooting data if the status condition is an error condition. Also provided are physical computer storage mediums including a computer program product for performing the above method.

Claims

1. A method for managing computing systems utilizing augmented reality using a processor, comprising:

capturing an environmental input via a capture device;

identifying a target device in the captured environmental input;

comparing the target device in the captured environmental input to a model of the target device;

recognizing, in real-time, a status condition of the target device based on the comparison; and

determining if the target device is functioning properly if the target device and the model of the target device match, wherein if the target device is not functioning properly;

a type of error condition is recognized,

a cause of the error condition is queried,

the cause and type of error condition, along with troubleshooting instructions are returned, and

the cause, type and troubleshooting instructions are displayed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the target device comprises identifying the target device via one of a bar code, a radio frequency identifier, and a position of the target device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a display coupled to the processor, the method further comprising displaying, via the display, the information regarding the status condition.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the information regarding the status condition comprises displaying the troubleshooting instructions if the status condition is the error condition.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing the environmental input comprises capturing the environmental input utilizing one of an audio capturing device, a visual capturing device, and a tactile capturing device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing the environmental input comprises capturing a static visual image of the target device utilizing a camera.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing the environmental input comprises capturing video images of the target device utilizing a camera.