Information processing apparatus and device power control
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorToshiya Miyazaki
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus such that power consumption at time of Internet access can be dramatically reduced, allowing battery-driven operating time to be extended as much as possible. An apparatus is provided with a communication functions unit capable of communicating with any web server; a device subject to control determination means for determining devices subject to control that are to be subject to power control based on input/output data transmitted between the communication functions unit and a web server; and a power control means to control power to devices subject to power control.
Claims7
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of devices for which the supplied electrical power can be controlled independently;
- a communication functions unit capable of communicating with any web server;
- a device subject to control determination means for determining which of said plurality of devices is to be a device subject to control that will be subject to power control, such determination to be based on input/output data transmitted between said communication functions unit and a web server;
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- a power control means for controlling power to said device subject to control.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.