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US 11,107,284 B2Granted
System and method for visualization of system components
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsRichard C. Deck, Scott C. Lauffer
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Abstract
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for modeling and diagnosing a system. System identification information captured by an AR system is used to identify the system and one or more of a model of the components of the system or an overlay of the system is retrieved from a repository or generated based on component identification information or component performance data and sent to the AR system. A composite view of the model or overlay relative to a dynamic image or model of the system allows a technician to visualize the system and components and diagnose the operation of the system without opening the system.
Claims17
A computer-implementable method for visualizing a system within an information technology (IT) environment, comprising:
- capturing system identification information by an augmented reality (AR) system;
- identifying the system based on the captured system identification information, the system being contained within a rack of systems within the IT environment;
- sending one of a model corresponding to a set of components associated with the identified system or an overlay based on the model to the AR system;
- and
- displaying the model or the overlay relative to a dynamic image of the system with associated information about the system, the model or overlay presenting diagnostic information and performance information superimposed over the dynamic image of the system, the performance information including historical information regarding the system, the displaying visualizing the system without a need to remove the system from the rack of systems;
- and wherein
- the overlay comprises a plurality of panes of component performance data, the plurality of panes associating specific respective performance parameters of the component performance data with a component of the set of components, the plurality of panes comprising a thermal pane for visualizing thermal generation and cooling by each component of the set of components, a workload pane for visualizing work performed by each component of the set of components and a power pane for visualizing power usage by each component of the set of components.
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A visualization system comprising:
- a processor;
- a data bus coupled to the processor;
- and
- a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code for visualizing a system within an information technology (IT) environment, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for:
- receiving system identification information captured by an augmented reality (AR) system;
- identifying the system based on the captured system identification information, the system being contained within a rack of systems within the IT environment;
- sending one of a model corresponding to a set of components associated with the identified system or an overlay based on the model to the AR system;
- and
- displaying the model or the overlay relative to a dynamic image of the system with associated information about the system, the model or overlay presenting diagnostic information and performance information superimposed over the dynamic image of the system, the performance information including historical information regarding the system, the displaying visualizing the system without a need to remove the system from the rack of systems;
- and wherein
- the overlay comprises a plurality of panes of component performance data, the plurality of panes associating specific respective performance parameters of the component performance data with a component of the set of components, the plurality of panes comprising a thermal pane for visualizing thermal generation and cooling by each component of the set of components, a workload pane for visualizing work performed by each component of the set of components and a power pane for visualizing power usage by each component of the set of components.
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A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code for visualizing a system within an information technology (IT) environment, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:
- receiving system identification information captured by an augmented reality (AR) system;
- identifying the system based on the captured system identification information, the system being contained within a rack of systems within the IT environment;
- sending one of a model corresponding to a set of components associated with the identified system or an overlay based on the model to the AR system;
- and
- displaying the model or the overlay relative to a dynamic image of the system with associated information about the system, the model or overlay presenting diagnostic information and performance information superimposed over the dynamic image of the system, the performance information including historical information regarding the system, the displaying visualizing the system without a need to remove the system from the rack of systems;
- and wherein
- the overlay comprises a plurality of panes of component performance data, the plurality of panes associating specific respective performance parameters of the component performance data with a component of the set of components, the plurality of panes comprising a thermal pane for visualizing thermal generation and cooling by each component of the set of components, a workload pane for visualizing work performed by each component of the set of components and a power pane for visualizing power usage by each component of the set of components.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.