Patent ID: 9652636
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of electronic verification of motion data, the method comprising: collecting, in response to receiving a computer-based command to power on a computer that includes a hardware element having a processor, memory, gyroscope, and accelerometer, the hardware element being configured to be inserted into a slot of a computer hardware rack having one or more slots, a first set of motion data that corresponds to a first set of motion characteristics generated from physically rotating and translating the hardware element of the computer, the first set of motion data further including a distance between a slot in the computer hardware rack where the hardware element of the computer is inserted and an adjacent slot in the computer hardware rack; terminating the collection of the first set of motion data when the hardware element of the computer is inserted within a slot of the computer hardware rack; analyzing the first set of motion data, wherein analyzing the first set of motion data includes generating numerical values for the first set of motion characteristics; determining whether or not the first set of motion data was successfully analyzed; repeating the step of collecting, in response to the first set of motion data not being successfully analyzed, the first set of motion data; determining an approved set of motion data, the approved set of motion data corresponding to an approved set of motion characteristics; comparing, in response to the first set of motion data being successfully analyzed and after inserting the hardware element into the slot in the computer hardware rack, the first set of motion data to the approved set of motion data; determining, based on the comparing, a difference between the first set of motion data and the approved set of motion data; determining a score for the difference between the first set of motion data and the approved set of motion data, where the score is a numerical representation of the difference between the first set of motion data and the approved set of motion data; determining that the score for the difference between the first set of motion data and the approved set of motion data does not satisfy a threshold range; executing a reaction sequence in the computer in response to determining that the score does not satisfy the threshold range, wherein the reaction sequence includes overwriting a set of data stored in the computer; removing the hardware element of the computer from the computer hardware rack; and erasing the first set of motion data in response to removing the hardware element of the computer from the computer hardware rack.