Controlling a power state of a device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsNEIL WILLIAM MACDOUGALL, KEIR SHEPHERD, LON BARFIELD, BEN WYNNE
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Abstract
A method for controlling a power state of a host device, the method comprising operating a processor of a power control module integral to the host to perform operations comprising determining a current power state of the host from a plurality of possible states, receiving a remote request to alter the power state of the host device, and on the basis of the request, altering the power state of the host device from the current state to one other of the plurality of states of the host.
Claims10
A method for controlling a power state of a host device, the method comprising operating a processor of a power control module integral to the host to perform operations comprising:
- determining a current power state of the host from a plurality of possible states;
- receiving a remote request to alter the power state of the host device;
- and
- on the basis of the request, altering the power state of the host device from the current state to one other of the plurality of states of the host.
A power control module for use with a host device for controlling a power state of the host device, the module comprising:
- a host power control interface module for communicating with the host device via a power control interface of the module;
- a low-power wireless communication module;
- and
- a logic component module for processing requests received from the wireless communication module;
- wherein the wireless communication module is operable to receive a signal indicating that a change in the power state of the device is desired and communicate the same to the logic component in order to effect a the desired change of power state to one other of a plurality of states of the host device.
Apparatus, comprising:
- a computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions;
- and
- a data processor coupled to the computer-readable medium, operable to execute the instructions, and based at least in part on the execution of the instructions operable to perform operations comprising:
- determining a current power state of a host device from a plurality of possible states of the device, the apparatus embedded within the host;
- receiving a remote request to alter the power state of the host device;
- and
- on the basis of the request, altering the power state of the host device from the current state to one other of the plurality of states of the host.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.