KR101036824B1 - Apparatus and method for managing event information in electric device - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for managing event information in an electronic device. For example, various events generated in various types of electronic devices, such as a DVD-recorder having a PVR function, are provided. In addition to recording and managing information in event information files, such as a log file, and the like, when any operation is normally terminated, additional information is recorded in the corresponding event information file to identify whether the termination is normal. By efficiently searching for and checking specific abnormally terminated events, even if a fatal error such as a system down occurs in the electronic device, the event information files are searched to more accurately and conveniently identify the cause of the system error. It is a very useful invention that can be identified.

Electronics, event information, log files, system errors, multicasting

Description

Apparatus and method for managing event information in electric device}             

1 illustrates a configuration of a DVD recorder to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a method for managing event information in an electronic device according to the present invention;

3 and 4 show an embodiment of a log file which is recorded and managed according to the present invention.

[Description of Drawings]

10: optical disc 11: optical pickup

12: recording / playback system 13: microcomputer

14: Hard Disk 15: Memory Card

16: timer 17: tuner

18: log file generation unit 19: interface unit

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for managing event information in an electronic device. For example, various types of event information generated in various types of electronic devices such as a DVD recorder having a personal video record (PVR) function may be used. The present invention relates to an event information management apparatus and method in an electronic device for recording and managing a log file or the like so as to efficiently search for and confirm a cause of a system error.

Recently, electronic devices equipped with various multi-casting functions have been developed and commercialized. For example, DVD-R or rewritable DVD which can record digital audio and video data once DVD recorders capable of recording, reading, and playing back on optical discs such as DVD-RW have been developed and commercialized.

On the other hand, in the DVD recorder, a tuner (Tuner) and a hard disk (HDD), etc. may be further configured in the device to enable recording of digital broadcast programs, for example, the PVR function is provided with In the DVD recorder, the tuner operates to control the tuner according to a user's key input, selects a broadcast program, and records the broadcast program on a hard disk or a series of broadcast recording operations on the optical disk. Will perform.

In addition, in the DVD recorder equipped with the PVR function, for example, while simultaneously recording and recording a broadcast program on a hard disk, a multicasting operation such as playing an optical disk inserted into the apparatus or copying and recording a file is simultaneously performed. As a result, the user can tune to a desired broadcast program and record it on the hard disk while simultaneously playing and watching a desired DVD title or copying a desired file.

However, when various multi-casting operations are simultaneously performed as described above, the system load is rapidly increased, and when a specific key value that is not executable is input while performing any particular operation, As a system error occurs, a case of abnormal system down occurs, but a solution for more efficiently identifying the cause of such a system error has not been prepared yet.

Accordingly, the present invention was created in view of the above situation, and for example, various event information generated in various types of electronic devices such as a DVD recorder having a PVR function, an event such as a log file, etc. In addition to recording and managing information files, when an operation is normally terminated, additional information is recorded in the corresponding event information file to identify whether the operation is normally terminated, thereby efficiently searching for an abnormally terminated specific event. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for managing event information in an electronic device for identification.

Event information management method in the electronic device according to the present invention for achieving the above object, and performs any operation corresponding to the user key input, and generates an event information file corresponding to the recording medium in the device Step 1 to record management in; And additionally recording information in the event information file to identify whether the operation is normally terminated when the operation is normally terminated.

In addition, the event information management apparatus in the electronic device according to the present invention, generating means for generating each event information file for any operation performed according to the user's key input; Storage means for recording and storing the generated event information file; And control means for controlling the generation means to control the generating means so that information capable of identifying whether the operation is normally terminated is additionally recorded in the corresponding event information file. .

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of an apparatus and method for managing event information in an electronic device according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.                     

First, the present invention can be applied to various types of electronic devices. For example, in the DVD recorder equipped with the PVR function to which the present invention is applied, as shown in FIG. 1, the optical disc 10 and the optical pickup ( 11), recording / playback system 12, microcomputer 13, hard disk 14, memory card 15, timer 16, tuner 17, log file generation unit 18, and interface unit ( 19) and the like.

On the other hand, the log file generation unit 18, after generating each event (Event) information for any operation performed according to the user's key input to the log file (Log File), the nonvolatile memory card 15 Alternatively, the hard disk 14 or the optical disk 10 may be recorded and stored, and the log file may be automatically deleted in the order of the oldest file recording time.

In addition, among the log files, a specific log file in which important event information is recorded, for example, a log file in which a cause of a system error has been recorded, may be automatically set so that a lock is not deleted. In order to delete, a series of procedures such as a password input request may be required.

In addition, when the microcomputer 13 receives a user's key input, the microcomputer 13 controls to perform an arbitrary operation corresponding thereto, and also controls the log file generation unit 18 to operate corresponding to each event. The log file generation and recording operation is performed, and when the operation is normally terminated, the log file generation unit 18 controls the log file generation unit 18 so that information for identifying whether the operation is normally terminated is additionally recorded in the event information file. Done.                     

In addition, when performing an interface operation with an external connection device, for example, a personal computer (PC), connected and connected through the interface unit 19, and reading and transmitting the log file, the nonvolatile memory card 15 By reading and transmitting the log files stored and managed on either the hard disk 14 or the optical disk 10, the electronic device development or repair company can accurately determine the cause of the system error through the log files. It will be described in detail as follows.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing event information in an electronic device according to the present invention. For example, in a state in which a system booting operation of a DVD recorder to which the present invention is applied is performed (S10), When a desired key is selected and input (S11), the microcomputer 13 performs an arbitrary operation corresponding to the user key input (S12).

For example, when the user selects to record to the hard disk 14 a broadcast program provided through broadcast channel 11, the microcomputer 13 operates and controls the tuner 17 to broadcast. The channel 11 is tuned and the recording / playback system 12 is operated to perform a series of broadcast recording operations in which a broadcast program is recorded on the hard disk 14.

On the other hand, the microcomputer 13 performs the above-described broadcast recording operation and simultaneously controls the log file generating unit 18 to convert event information corresponding to user key input and recording operation into a log file. After creation, it is recorded and stored in the device. For example, the log file may be stored and managed in the nonvolatile memory card 15.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the log file includes a user key input value (eg, Record Start) and time information (eg, 041015/18: 00: 25), and a corresponding operation (eg, Channel). 11 BS recording to HDD) and time information (eg, 041015/18: 00: 26) and the like may be recorded, and other information may be additionally recorded and managed.

On the other hand, the microcomputer 13, when the broadcast recording operation is normally terminated (S14), the operation to control the log file generation unit 18, the information for indicating that the recording operation in the log file is normally terminated For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the recording time of the broadcast recording operation is normally terminated (for example, 041025/18: 30: 00).

Accordingly, although the user key, the operation information, and the operation end time are all recorded and managed in the log file in which the recording operation is normally completed, the recording operation is not normally terminated due to a system error or the like. As such, the operation end time is not recorded.

For example, while performing a broadcast recording operation, a DVD playback operation and a file copy operation are simultaneously requested, so that the system load increases rapidly or a specific key value that is not executable is input and the system is shut down. In the case of a system down, as shown in FIG. 4, since the operation end time is not recorded in the log file, an electronic device development or repair company may search for the system error while performing a broadcast recording operation. It can be confirmed accurately.

Or more, preferred embodiments of the present invention described above, for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art, within the technical spirit and the technical scope of the present invention disclosed in the appended claims below, to further improve various other embodiments Changes, substitutions or additions will be possible.

Event information management apparatus and method in the electronic device according to the present invention configured and made as described above, for example, various event information generated from various types of electronic devices (Electric Device), such as a DVD recorder having a PVR function Record and manage information to event information files such as a log file, and additionally record information to identify whether the operation is normally terminated in an event information file corresponding to an abnormal operation. By efficiently searching for and checking a specific event that has been terminated, the event information files are searched for, even if a fatal error such as a system down occurs in the electronic device, to more accurately and conveniently identify the cause of the system error. It is a very useful invention.

Claims (9)

Performing a random operation corresponding to a user key input, and generating a log file including contents of the user key input, a random operation, and operation start time information, and recording and managing the same on a recording medium in a device; If the arbitrary operation is normally terminated, additionally recording operation end time information in the log file, and if the arbitrary operation is not normally terminated, not further recording operation end time information in the log file; And When the log files are automatically deleted, the electronic device comprises three steps of deleting the log files, in which the operation start time information is not added, but excluding the log files for which the operation end time information is not additionally recorded. Event information management method in. delete delete delete The method of claim 1, And the log file is read out and transmitted through an interface with an external connection device. Generating means for generating a log file including contents of the user key input, any operation, and operation start time information when performing an operation corresponding to a user key input; Storage means for recording and storing the generated log file; And If the arbitrary operation is normally terminated, additionally recording operation end time information in the log file, but if the arbitrary operation is not normally terminated, without additionally recording operation end time information in the log file, When the log files are automatically deleted, the log files are deleted in the order of the operation start time information, and the control means for excluding the log files for which the operation end time information is not additionally recorded from the automatic deletion. Event information management device in electronic devices. delete The method of claim 6, And the storage means is at least one of a nonvolatile memory, a hard disk, or an optical disk included in the electronic device. delete

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