Systems and methods for managing computing systems utilizing augmented reality

• US 9,219,666 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2014
• 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): JACOBS, LASHONDA T
• Application Number:
  US14/549,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/223, 709/203, 709/217, 345/420, 345/435, 345/473, 345/632, 345/633, 382/103
• 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 determining if the target device is functioning properly if the target device and the model of the target device match. Also provided are physical computer storage mediums including a computer program product for performing the above method.

Claims

1. A system for managing computing systems utilizing augmented reality, comprising:

a processor, wherein the processor;

identifies a target device in a captured environmental input,

compares the target device in the captured environmental input to a model of the target device,

recognizes, in real-time, a status condition of the target device based on the comparison,

determines if the target device is functioning properly if the target device and the model of the target device match.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a capture device coupled to the processor, wherein the processor captures the environmental input via the capture device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the capture device is one of an audio capturing device, a visual capturing device, and a tactile capturing device.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the capture device is a camera and the environmental input is a visual image.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein, when identifying the target device, the processor identifies the target device via one of a bar code, a radio frequency identifier, and a position of the target device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein if the target device is not functioning properly, the processor:

recognizes a type of error condition,

queries a cause of the error condition,

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

displays the cause, type and troubleshooting instructions.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a display coupled to the processor, wherein the processor displays, via the display, the cause, the type and the troubleshooting instructions.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor displays, via the display, the troubleshooting instructions if the status condition is the error condition.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises one of a cellular telephone, a laptop computing device, and a tablet computing device.

10. A physical computer storage medium comprising a computer program product method for method for managing computing systems utilizing a system including a processor, the physical computer storage medium comprising:

computer code that identifies a target device in a captured environmental input;

computer code that compares the target device in the captured environmental input to a model of the target device;

computer code that recognizes, in real-time, a status condition of the target device based on the comparison; and

computer code that determines if the target device is functioning properly if the target device and the model of the target device match.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer code that captures the environmental input via a capture device.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer code for capturing the environmental input comprises computer code that captures the environmental input utilizing one of an audio capturing device, a visual capturing device, and a tactile capturing device.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer code for capturing the environmental input comprises one of computer code that captures a static visual image of the target device utilizing a camera and computer code that captures video images of the target device utilizing the camera.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising computer code that, if the target device is not functioning properly:

recognizes a type of error condition,

queries a cause of the error condition,

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

displays the cause, type and troubleshooting instructions.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the system further comprises a display coupled to the processor, the physical computer storage medium further comprising computer code for displaying, via the display, the cause, the type, and the troubleshooting instructions.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the computer code for displaying the information regarding the status condition comprises computer code that displays the troubleshooting instructions if the status condition is the error condition.

17. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the computer code for identifying the target device comprises computer code that identifies the target device via one of a bar code, a radio frequency identifier, and a position of the target device.