Machine error and failure mitigation

• US 9,672,097 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2015
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AGCO Corporation
• Original Assignee: AGCO Corporation
• Inventors: Matthews, Paul Ross
• Primary Examiner(s): Ehne, Charles
• Application Number:
  US14/626,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20150254127A1
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0262 Confirmation of fault detection, e.g. extra checks to confirm that a failure has indeed occurred
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• 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 11/0793 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 11/3006 where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/366 using diagnostics G06F11/0703 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method comprising receiving, at a machine, a first message; operably connecting the machine to a device that comprises a temporary update; loading the update from the device; and mitigating the first message with the update before receiving a more permanent solution to the first message.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a machine, a first message;

operably connecting the machine to a device that comprises a temporary update;

loading the update from the device;

mitigating the first message with the update before receiving a more permanent solution to the first message; and

further mitigating the first message by presenting a second message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second message corrects an inaccuracy of the first message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second message supplements or replaces the first message.

4. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a machine, a first message;

operably connecting the machine to a device that comprises a temporary update;

loading the update from the device;

mitigating the first message with the update before receiving a more permanent solution to the first message; and

further mitigating the first message by suppressing the first message.

5. A machine, comprising:

a first interface device configured to present a first message to an operator of the machine;

a second interface device configured to operably connect the machine to a device; and

a processor configured to;

receive a temporary update from the device via the second interface device;

mitigate the first message with the update before receiving a more permanent solution to the first message; and

further mitigate the first message by presenting a second message.

6. The machine of claim 5, wherein the second message corrects an inaccuracy of the first message.

7. The machine of claim 5, wherein the second message supplements or replaces the first message.

8. A machine, comprising:

a first interface device configured to present a first message to an operator of the machine;

a second interface device configured to operably connect the machine to a device; and

a processor configured to;

receive a temporary update from the device via the second interface device;

mitigate the first message with the update before receiving a more permanent solution to the first message; and

further mitigate the first message by suppressing the first message.

9. A machine, comprising:

a first interface device configured to present a first message to an operator of the machine;

a second interface device configured to operably connect the machine to a device; and

a processor configured to;

receive a temporary update from the device via the second interface device;

mitigate the first message with the update before receiving a more permanent solution to the first message, wherein the second interface device comprises a modem that operably connects to the device via a network, and the first interface device comprises one of a device for providing a visual representation of the update, a device for providing an audible representation of the update, or a device for providing a combination of a visual and audible representation of the update.