METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A DECOUPLED POWER MANAGEMENT STATE

A novel method and apparatus for providing a decoupled power management state. The present invention decouples the operating system's perspective of the power management state from that of the actual hardware state of a host resource. Namely, the resources of a host computer can still operate a...

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Main Author HICOK, GARY, D
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 22.07.2009
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A novel method and apparatus for providing a decoupled power management state. The present invention decouples the operating system's perspective of the power management state from that of the actual hardware state of a host resource. Namely, the resources of a host computer can still operate and provide functionality while the host operating system is "off", while still providing power saving to the host system and user.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20030729134