Mobile application for monitoring and configuring second device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021075673-A1
Application number	US-202017099484-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 16, 2020
Priority date	Dec 11, 2017
Publication date	Mar 11, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for remotely adjusting performance and power parameters of a computing device are disclosed. A computing system includes a first computing device connected to a second (remote) computing device. The user uses the second computing device to monitor and adjust parameters, such as a fan speed for a GPU on a video graphics card in the first computing device, while the first computing device executes a parallel data application such as a video game. Additionally, the user uses the second computing device to manage video recorder operations. By using the second computing device to send commands to a graphics driver and a video recorder application, the first computing device's display monitor does not display a user interface during execution of the video game. No video rendering is performed by the video graphics card of the first computing device to generate and control the user interface.

First claim

1 - 20 . (canceled)

21 . An apparatus comprising:
a first computing device; and a communication interface; wherein the first computing device is configured to:
send, via the communication interface, a session request comprising connection data to a second computing device external to the apparatus, wherein the connection data includes data provided by the second computing device;
receive, via the communication interface, session data from the second computing;
send, via the communication interface, a command that causes an adjustment to a parameter of the second computing device.

22 . The apparatus as recited in claim 21 , wherein the data obtained from the second computing device includes data for establishing a session.

23 . The apparatus as recited in claim 22 , wherein the first computing device is configured to send the command responsive to receiving diagnostic data from the second computing device.

24 . The apparatus as recited in claim 23 , wherein the parameter corresponds to at least one of a fan speed and a clock speed of the second computing device.

25 . The apparatus as recited in claim 21 , wherein the command corresponds to a video recorder command for a software application.

26 . The apparatus as recited in claim 21 , wherein the session request is a request to establish a session.

27 . The apparatus as recited in claim 21 , wherein the connection data includes data obtained from an image displayed by the second computing device.

28 . The apparatus as recited in claim 21 , wherein the connection data comprises one or more of a server Internet Protocol address for the second computing device, a server hostname for the second computing device, a server listening port for the second computing device, and a server authentication code.

29 . A method comprising:
sending, from a first computing device, a session request comprising connection data to a second computing device, wherein the connection data includes data provided by the second computing device; receiving, from the second computing device, session data; sending, from the first computing device, a command that causes an adjustment to a parameter of the second computing device.

30 . The method as recited in claim 21 , wherein the data obtained from the second computing device includes data for establishing a session.

31 . The method as recited in claim 22 , further comprising sending the command from the first computing device, responsive to receiving diagnostic data from the second computing device.

32 . The method as recited in claim 23 , wherein the parameter corresponds to at least one of a fan speed and a clock speed of the second computing device.

33 . The method as recited in claim 21 , wherein the command corresponds to a video recorder command for a software application.

34 . The method as recited in claim 21 , wherein the session request is a request to establish a session.

35 . The method as recited in claim 21 , further comprising obtaining data included in the connection data from an image displayed by the second computing device.

36 . The method as recited in claim 21 , wherein the connection data comprises one or more of a server Internet Protocol address for the second computing device, a server hostname for the second computing device, a server listening port for the second computing device, and a server authentication code.

37 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instructions, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor to:
send, from a first computing device, a session request comprising connection data to a second computing device, wherein the connection data includes data provided by the second computing device; receive, from the second computing device, session data; send, from the first computing device, a command that causes an adjustment to a parameter of the second computing device.

38 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instruction as recited in claim 37 , wherein the data obtained from the second computing device includes data for establishing a session.

39 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instruction as recited in claim 37 , wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor send the command from the first computing device, responsive to receiving diagnostic data from the second computing device.

40 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing program instruction as recited in claim 37 , wherein the program instructions are executable to obtain the connection data from an image displayed by the second computing device.

Assignees

• Ati Technologies Ulc

Inventors

• Alam Amir
• Fok Patrick Pak Kin
• Zhang Le
• Blank Ilia

Classifications

• H04L41/0813 Primary

  characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings · CPC title

• G06K7/1413

  1D bar codes · CPC title

• H04L43/16

  Threshold monitoring · CPC title