INDICATING STATES IN A TELEMATIC SYSTEM

• US 20130018885A1
• Filed: 07/13/2012
• Published: 01/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Guenkova-Luy, Teodora
• Granted Patent: US 9,569,295 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0739 in a data processing system embedded in automotive or aircraft systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0781 Error filtering or prioritizing based on a policy defined by the user or on a policy defined by a hardware/software module, e.g. according to a severity level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3013 where the computing system is an embedded system, i.e. a combination of hardware and software dedicated to perform a certain function in mobile devices, printers, automotive or aircraft systems testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof G05B23/02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16

Abstract

A status management system includes a computer-implemented method for delivering status information to a requester, comprising providing status codes, clustering the status codes in a number of status codes clusters, hierarchically sorting the status codes clusters and transmitting at least one of the status codes to the requester depending on the hierarchy of the sorted status codes clusters.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for delivering status information to a requester, comprising providing status codes;

clustering the status codes in a number of status codes clusters;

hierarchically sorting the status codes clusters with a processor based on a unique identifier included in each of the status codes that is indicative of a rank of the status codes clusters within a hierarchy of the sorted status codes clusters; and

transmitting at least one of the status codes to the requester with the processor depending on the hierarchy of the sorted status codes clusters.

2. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, where transmitting at least one of the status codes further comprises

transmitting to the requestor with the processor only one or more status codes of one or more status codes clusters above or below a predetermined hierarchy rank if a first condition is fulfilled;

and

transmitting to the requestor no status codes of the one or more status codes clusters above or below the predetermined rank if a second condition is fulfilled.

3. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, where transmitting at least one of the status codes further comprises transmitting to the requestor with the processor a status code of a particular status codes cluster having a rank in the hierarchy of the sorted status codes clusters , and not transmitting to the requestor any status code of any status codes cluster with a lower rank in the hierarchy of the sorted status codes clusters than the rank of the particular status codes cluster containing the transmitted status code.

4. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, further comprising hierarchically sorting the status codes in the respective hierarchically sorted status codes clusters with the processor.

5. The computer-implemented method according to claim 4, further comprising hierarchically ranking the status codes clustered in each of the status codes clusters with the processor and where transmitting at least one of the status codes further comprises transmitting the at least one of the status codes to the requester depending on a hierarchical rank of the status codes contained in the hierarchically sorted status codes clusters.

6. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, where transmitting at least one of the status codes further comprises automatically transmitting the at least one of the status codes to the requestor in response to a change in an execution environment of the processor.

7. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, where the processor is included in a server, and the requester is a client and, transmitting at least one of the status codes further comprises transmitting the at least one of the status codes by the server to the client in response to a request or to a subscription to notification by the client.

8. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1, wherein the status identifier is a unique number and each of the status codes comprises the unique number and a character string indicating the status information.

9. A computer system comprising:

a processor;

a resource management module executable with the processor to hierarchically sort status codes clusters based on a unique identifier included in each of a plurality of status codes, the unique identifier indicative of a rank of the status codes clusters within a hierarchy of the sorted status codes clusters;

the resource management module further configured to transmit at least one of multiple status codes clustered in the hierarchically sorted status codes clusters to a requester depending on a rank of the hierarchy of the status codes cluster in which the at least one of the multiple status codes is contained.

10. The computer system according to claim 9, further comprising an Application Programming Interface configured to transmit the at least one of multiple status codes clustered in the hierarchically sorted status codes clusters to the requester over a communication network.

11. The computer system according to claim 10, where the requester is one of a user application connected to the computer system, or a diagnostic service configured to perform diagnosis of the computer system, or applications connected with the computer system.

12. The-computer system of claim 10, where the processor and the resource management module are included in an in vehicle communication system.

13. A computer readable storage medium that includes instructions executable by a processor, the computer readable storage medium comprising:

instructions executable by the processor to review a plurality of status codes indicative of a status of at least one system;

instructions executable by the processor to cluster the status codes into a plurality of status codes clusters based on a unique cluster identifier included in each of the status codes;

instructions executable by the processor to hierarchically rank the status codes clusters based on the unique cluster identifiers;

instructions executable by the processor to determine which of the plurality of status codes are applicable to a present status of the at least one system; and

instructions executable by the processor to select and transmit one of more applicable status codes based on the hierarchical ranking of the status codes clusters.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13, where the instructions executable by the processor to review a plurality of status codes indicative of a status of at least one system further comprise instructions executable by the processor to sequentially review each of the hierarchically ranked status codes clusters to determine applicable status codes included in the respective hierarchically ranked status codes clusters.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14, where the instructions executable by the processor to sequentially review comprise instructions executable by the processor to sequentially review the status codes clusters in a sequential order according to the hierarchal ranking.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, where the instructions executable by the processor to review a plurality of status codes indicative of a status of at least one system further comprise instructions executable by the processor select one or more status codes determined as applicable in a one of the status codes clusters and stop further sequential review.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 13, where the instructions executable by the processor to review a plurality of status codes indicative of a status of at least one system further comprise instructions executable by the processor to select one or more applicable status codes in a one of the status codes clusters that is a highest ranking status codes cluster among the status codes clusters.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions executable by the processor to identify a highest ranking status codes cluster from among the status codes clusters, and instructions executable to select and transmit from only the highest ranking status codes cluster at least one status code determined as applicable.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions executable by the processor to hierarchically rank within each of the status codes clusters the status codes determined to be applicable, and instructions executable by the processor to select and transmit only hierarchically ranked applicable status codes above a predetermined rank limit.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19, further comprising instructions executable by the processor to hierarchically rank each of the status codes within each of the status codes clusters based on a status code ranking identifier included in each of the status codes.