US 12,462,656 B2
Vibration-based location indication system
Neal Beard, Austin, TX (US); Bruce Anthony Holmes, Austin, TX (US); Maunish Shah, Austin, TX (US); and Douglas Roy Kaiser, Pflugerville, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Sep. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/461,051.
Prior Publication US 2025/0078634 A1, Mar. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 6/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 6/00 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vibration-based location indication system, comprising:
a management system; and
a computing system that is coupled to the management system via a network and that includes:
a computing system chassis;
a plurality of computing components that are housed in the computing system chassis and that each include a respective computing component vibration device; and
at least one computing component location indication subsystem that is coupled to the network and each respective computing component vibration device, wherein the at least one computing component location indication subsystem is configured to:
receive, from the management system via the network, a plurality of computing component location indication instructions to indicate a respective location of each of the plurality of computing components; and
drive, based on the plurality of computing component location indication instructions, the respective computing component vibration device included in each of the plurality of computing components to produce a unique vibration pattern for that computing component that is configured to indicate the respective location of that computing component.