Data collecting method and apparatus, and mobile terminal

• US 9,483,543 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2014
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honor Device Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chen, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): Perveen, Rehana
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hoffler, Raheem
• Application Number:
  US14/464,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20140365434A1
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/24457 Failure detection
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 9/005 Solid-state data loggers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2071 using a plurality of controllers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2308 Concurrency control transaction processing G06F9/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication

Abstract

A data collecting method and apparatus, and a mobile terminal are provided. The data collecting method may be applied in an apparatus including multiple data collecting units. The method includes collecting, by at least two data collecting units, initial data simultaneously at their respective collecting frequencies and at a collection starting moment and collecting, at a synchronous collecting frequency, the initial data collected by the at least two data collecting units so as to obtain synchronous data. The synchronous collecting frequency is a common divisor frequency of the respective collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units.

Claims

1. A data collecting apparatus applied in an apparatus comprising multiple data collecting units, wherein the data collecting apparatus comprises:

a synchronous data collecting module at least partially implemented in hardware;

an initialization duration acquiring module; and

a starting moment acquiring module,

wherein at least two data collecting units in the multiple data collecting units are configured to collect initial data simultaneously at their respective collecting frequencies and at a collection starting moment,

wherein the synchronous data collecting module is configured to collect, at a synchronous collecting frequency, the initial data collected by the at least two data collecting units, so as to obtain synchronous data,

wherein the synchronous collecting frequency is a common divisor frequency of the respective collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units,

wherein the initialization duration acquiring module is configured to acquire initialization duration of the at least two data collecting units and the maximum initialization duration in the initialization duration,

wherein the starting moment acquiring module is configured to acquire the collection starting moment, and

wherein the collection starting moment is not smaller than a moment obtained by backwards prolonging a current moment by the maximum initialization duration.

2. The data collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data collecting apparatus further comprises an initialization moment acquiring module and an initialization module, wherein the initialization moment acquiring module is configured to acquire initialization moments of the at least two data collecting units, and the initialization moments of the at least two data collecting units are moments obtained after respective initialization duration of the data collecting units is advanced based on the collection starting moment, wherein the initialization module is configured to initialize the at least two data collecting units at the initialization moments, and wherein the at least two data collecting units are further configured to collect initial data at their respective collecting frequencies after initialization processes are simultaneously completed at the collection starting moment.

3. A data collecting apparatus, applied in an apparatus comprising multiple data collecting units, wherein the data collecting apparatus comprises:

a synchronous data collecting module at least partially implemented in hardware;

a collecting frequency acquiring module,

a common divisor acquiring module, and

a synchronous collecting frequency selecting module,

wherein at least two data collecting units in the multiple data collecting units are configured to collect initial data simultaneously at their respective collecting frequencies and at a collection starting moment,

wherein the synchronous data collecting module is configured to collect, at a synchronous collecting frequency, the initial data collected by the at least two data collecting units, so as to obtain synchronous data,

wherein the synchronous collecting frequency is a common divisor frequency of the respective collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units,

wherein the collecting frequency acquiring module is configured to acquire the collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units,

wherein the common divisor acquiring module is configured to acquire all common divisors of values of the collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units, and

wherein the synchronous collecting frequency selecting module is configured to select one from all the common divisors as a value of the synchronous collecting frequency.

4. The data collecting apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the synchronous collecting frequency selecting module comprises a demanded frequency acquiring unit and a synchronous collecting frequency determining unit, wherein the demanded frequency acquiring unit is configured to acquire a demanded frequency of synchronous data, wherein the demanded frequency is a frequency required when a synchronous data using module uses the synchronous data, and wherein the synchronous collecting frequency determining unit is configured to use the minimum common divisor of a common divisor that is in the common divisors and is not smaller than a value of the demanded frequency as the value of the synchronous collecting frequency.

5. The data collecting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the demanded frequency acquiring unit comprises a lowest frequency acquiring subunit and a demanded frequency selecting subunit, wherein the lowest frequency acquiring subunit is configured to acquire lowest frequencies required when synchronous data using modules use the synchronous data, and wherein the demanded frequency selecting subunit is configured to select the least common multiple of values of all the lowest frequencies as the value of the demanded frequency.

6. A mobile terminal, comprising:

multiple data collecting units, wherein at least two data collecting units in the multiple data collecting units are configured to collect initial data simultaneously at their respective collecting frequencies and at a collection starting moment; and

a data collecting apparatus, wherein the data collecting apparatus comprises a synchronous data collecting module, wherein the synchronous data collecting module is configured to collect, at a synchronous collecting frequency, the initial data collected by the at least two data collecting units, so as to obtain synchronous data,

wherein the synchronous collecting frequency is a common divisor frequency of the respective collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units,

wherein the synchronous data permits an application operating on the mobile terminal to avoid an occurrence of an error, and

wherein the data collecting apparatus further comprises a collecting unit registering module configured to register all or a part of the multiple data collecting units as the at least two data collecting units required when a synchronous data using module uses the synchronous data.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the data collecting apparatus further comprises an initialization duration acquiring module and a starting moment acquiring module, wherein the initialization duration acquiring module is configured to acquire initialization duration of the at least two data collecting units and the maximum initialization duration in the initialization duration, and wherein the starting moment acquiring module is configured to acquire the collection starting moment, wherein the collection starting moment is not smaller than a moment obtained after the maximum initialization duration is prolonged backwards based on a current moment.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the data collecting apparatus further comprises a collecting frequency acquiring module, a common divisor acquiring module, and a synchronous collecting frequency selecting module, wherein the collecting frequency acquiring module is configured to acquire the collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units, wherein the common divisor acquiring module is configured to acquire all common divisors of values of the collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units, and wherein the synchronous collecting frequency selecting module is configured to select one from all the common divisors as a value of the synchronous collecting frequency.

9. A mobile terminal, comprising:

multiple data collecting units, wherein at least two data collecting units in the multiple data collecting units are configured to collect initial data simultaneously at their respective collecting frequencies and at a collection starting moment; and

one or more processors configured to collect, at a synchronous collecting frequency, the initial data collected by the at least two data collecting units, so as to obtain synchronous data,

wherein the synchronous collecting frequency is a common divisor frequency of the respective collecting frequencies of the at least two data collecting units,

wherein the one or more processors are configured to register all or a part of the multiple data collecting units as the at least two data collecting units required when a synchronous data using module uses the synchronous data, and

wherein the synchronous data permits an application operating on the mobile terminal to avoid an occurrence of an error.