Electronic device operation environment presetting system and method thereof

• US 20040088388A1
• Filed: 10/30/2003
• Published: 05/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Yoshikazu, Satoh, Harumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,325,147 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/28 Supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

An input power source voltage detecting unit 1 detects the input AC power source voltage on an electronic device, and a country discriminating unit 2 discriminates the country with the electronic device present therein according to the detected voltage. An operation environment presetting unit 5 presets the electronic device to operation environments of the country discriminated by the country discriminating unit 2.

Claims

1. An electronic device operation environment presetting system comprising:

an input power source voltage detecting unit for detecting an input AC power source voltage on an electronic device;

a country discriminating unit for discriminating the country with the electronic device present therein according to the voltage detected by the input power source voltage detecting unit; and

an operation environment presetting unit for presetting the electronic device to operation environments of the country discriminated by the country discriminating unit.

3. The electronic device operation environment presetting system according to one of claims 1 and 2, which further comprises an individual country power source voltage list, in which commercial power source voltage values in predetermined countries are stored, and which is referred to by the country discriminating unit for discriminating a country of an identical power source voltage with the voltage detected by the input power source voltage detecting unit.

4. The electronic device operation environment presetting system according to one of claims 1 to 3, which further comprises an individual country operation environment list, in which operation environments preset for predetermined countries are stored, and which is referred to by the operation environment presetting unit for presetting the electronic device to the operation environments of the discriminated country.

5. The electronic device operation environment presetting system according to one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the input power source detecting unit executes the detection by utilizing an AC voltage detecting function of an AC-DC adapter for converting AC voltage to to DC voltage used in the electronic device.

8. The electronic device operation environment presetting system according to one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the electronic device is a personal computer.

2. An electronic device operation environment presetting system comprising:

an input power source voltage detecting unit operable, when a wireless LAN card is mounted therein, to detect an electronic device input AC power source voltage permitting operation in a wireless LAN system;

a country discriminating unit for discriminating the country with the electronic device present therein on the basis of the voltage detected by the input power source voltage detecting unit; and

an operation environment presetting unit for presetting the wireless LAN card to operation environments of the country discriminated by the country discriminating unit.

6. An electronic device operation environment presetting system for presetting operation environments of electronic devices furnished with DC power from a battery, comprising:

a country designating unit for designating a predetermined country in a predetermined country list; and

an operation environment presetting unit for presetting the electronic device to operation environments of the designated country.

7. The electronic device operation environment presetting system according to claim 6, which further comprises an individual country operation environment list, in which operation environments preset for predetermined countries are stored, and which is referred to by the operation environment presetting unit for presetting the electronic device to operation environments of the designated country.

9. An electronic device operation environment presetting method comprising:

a step of detecting the input AC power source voltage on an electronic device;

a step of discriminating a country with the electronic device present therein according to the detected voltage; and

a step of presetting the electronic device to operation environments of the discriminated country.