External button control system
AssigneeQuanta Computer Inc.
InventorsLe-Sheng CHOU, Shuen-Hung WANG, Sz-Chin SHIH, Geng-Hao CHANG
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Abstract
A control system for a computing device includes a control device configured to be communicatively coupled to an external network; a first actuator coupled to the control device, the first actuator being electronically operable by the control device in response to commands received by the control device via the external network; a second actuator manually operable by a local user; and a linkage system coupled to the first actuator and the second actuator. Both the first actuator and the second actuator are operable to move the linkage system from a first position to a second position to physically engage an external interface of the computing device.
Claims6
1-15. (canceled)
A method for operating a computing system that includes a computing device with an external interface, a linkage system configured to physically engage the external interface, a first actuator coupled to the linkage system, and a second actuator coupled to the linkage system, the method comprising:
- in response to receiving a remote input from an external network, operating the first actuator;
- in response to the operating of the first actuator, determining whether a first physical engagement of the external interface by the linkage system occurred;
- in response to determining that the first physical engagement occurred, recording a remote engagement event in a log of the computing system;
- determining whether a second physical engagement of the external interface caused by manual operation of the second actuator by a local user occurred;
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- in response to determining that the second physical engagement occurred, recording a local engagement event in the log of the computing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.