Cloud management method of electronic devices

• US 9,229,515 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2012
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Gomet Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Taiwan Gomet Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Chang, Sheng-Hsiung, Chang, Sheng-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Abbaszadeh, Jaweed A
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHIL K
• Application Number:
  US13/676,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20140136380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 713/320, 713/324, 713/340
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/28 Supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/32 Means for saving power
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/012 Providing warranty services

Abstract

A cloud management method of electronic devices is disclosed herein. The method comprises collecting at least one first information from a electronic device by an information collector comprising a safe power switch; calculating a temporary safe interruption value by the information collector via analyzing a predetermined number of times of a working current or voltage of the electronic device, or calculating a safe interruption value by a local server or a first server; and writing back the temporary safe interruption value or the safe interruption value to the safe power switch. Preferably, a power supply of the electronic device is cut off by the safe power switch in response to the working current or voltage surpassing the temporary safe interruption value or the safe interruption value.

Claims

1. A cloud management method of electronic devices, comprising following steps of:

collecting at least one first information from an electronic device by an information collector comprising a safe power switch;

calculating a temporary safe interruption value by the information collector via analyzing a predetermined number of times of a working current or voltage of the electronic device, and calculating a safe interruption value by a local server or a first server;

writing back the temporary safe interruption value or the safe interruption value to the safe power switch; and

warning the user of cutting off power supply of the electronic device by the local server or the first server in response to an abnormal working status of the electronic device, wherein the abnormal working status of the electronic device comprises exceeding a safe working temperature, and turn-on or turn-off of the electronic device in a non-predetermined time;

wherein the power supply of the electronic device is cut off by the safe power switch in response to the working current or voltage surpassing the temporary safe interruption value or the safe interruption value.

2. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of compiling and uploading the at least one first information to the first server via the local server through a network immediately or in a predetermined time interval.

3. The cloud management method of claim 1, wherein the information collector is built-in to the electronic device.

4. The cloud management method of claim 3, further comprising a step of registering the electronic device with predetermined information automatically to a personal account in the first server.

5. The cloud management method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined information comprising a brand, a model name, a serial number, a first working time, an installed position, internal modules data, the safe interruption value, a manufacturer and a warranty expiration date of the electronic device is automatically registered to the personal account in the first server when the electronic device is connected to the first server via the local server.

6. The cloud management method of claim 3, further comprising a step of determining a malfunction of internal modules of the electronic device by the local server or the first server according to the built-in information collector connected to internal module sensors in the electronic device.

7. The cloud management method of claim 6, wherein the internal modules comprise a power module, a video module, an audio module, a driving module, a heating module and a timer module.

8. The cloud management method of claim 3, wherein the at least one first information comprises a real-time working status of internal modules, a real-time current consumption of the electronic device, ambient temperature and ambient humidity.

9. The cloud management method of claim 8, further comprising a step of obtaining at least one second information by analyzing the at least one first information by the first server.

10. The cloud management method of claim 9, wherein the at least one second information comprises an actual mean time between failures (MTBF), a malfunction time, a malfunction frequency, a frequent malfunctioned module, a working period, total working hours and working status records of the electronic device.

11. The cloud management method of claim 1, wherein the information collector is externally configured with the electronic device.

12. The cloud management method of claim 11, further comprising a step of registering the electronic device with predetermined information manually to a personal account in the first server by the user.

13. The cloud management method of claim 12, wherein the predetermined information comprises a brand, a model name, a serial number, a first working time, an installed position, a manufacturer, a warranty expiration date and the safe interruption value of the electronic device.

14. The cloud management method of claim 13, wherein the safe interruption value is found and written back to the safe power switch by the local server or the first server with reference to the predetermined information.

15. The cloud management method of claim 11, wherein the safe interruption value of the safe power switch is further capable of being set-up by a user.

16. The cloud management method of claim 11, further comprising a step of determining a malfunction of the electronic device by the local server or the first server according to the externally configured information collector.

17. The cloud management method of claim 11, wherein the at least one first information comprises a real-time working status and a real-time current consumption of the electronic device, ambient temperature and ambient humidity.

18. The cloud management method of claim 11, further comprising a step of obtaining at least one second information by analyzing the at least one first information by the first server.

19. The cloud management method of claim 18, wherein the at least one second information comprises an actual mean time between failures (MTBF), a malfunction time, a malfunction frequency, a working period, total working hours and working status records of the electronic device.

20. The cloud management method of claim 11, wherein a rated current is written back to the safe power switch as a substituted safe interruption value by the first server in response to the safe interruption value being higher than the rated current set by the manufacturer.

21. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of sending a notification to a user by the local server or the first server for reminding the user that a warranty expiration date is due in a predetermined time ahead of the warranty expiration date.

22. The cloud management method of claim 21, further comprising a step of querying the user for extending the warranty expiration date.

23. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of warning a user of cutting off the power supply of the electronic device by the local server or the first server in response to the working current or voltage surpassing a safe warning value.

24. The cloud management method of claim 23, wherein the safe warning value is an average of a normal maximum working current or voltage value of the electronic device and the safe interruption value.

25. The cloud management method of claim 24, wherein the normal maximum working current or voltage value is automatically elevated by the local server or the first server in response to that the user declining to cut off the power supply of the electronic device in the warning step.

26. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of automatically sending a notification to a user or the first server by the information collector through the local server in response to a malfunction of the electronic device.

27. The cloud management method of claim 26, further comprising a step of automatically sending a notification to the second server to notify the second server to provide a quotation to the local server.

28. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of sending at least one second information to a second server belonging to a manufacturer of the electronic device by the first server.

29. The cloud management method of claim 28, wherein the manufacturer of the electronic device improves a design of the electronic device according to the at least one second information sent from the first server.

30. The cloud management method of claim 29, wherein the at least one second information comprises an actual mean time between failures (MTBF), a malfunction time, a malfunction frequency, a frequent malfunctioned module, a working period, total working hours and working status records of the electronic device.

31. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of sending a maintenance request to a second server by the first server to notify a manufacturer of the electronic device to maintain a malfunction of the electronic device before or after a warranty expiration date.

32. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of calculating a fee of extending warranty for providing a maintenance service without a manufacturer of the electronic device after a warranty expiration date.

33. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of posting maintenance information comprising a malfunction frequency and a frequent malfunction module of the electronic device, and a maintenance speed of a manufacturer of the electronic device on a web page by the first server for consumers'"'"' reference.

34. The cloud management method of claim 1, further comprising a step of providing a user with an analysis report of an individual or all of the electronic device by the first server.

35. The cloud management method of claim 34, wherein the analysis report comprises total working hours, a working period, a working frequency, a power consumption and variations of temperature and humidity of the electronic device.

36. The cloud management method of claim 1, wherein the network comprises wired network and wireless network.