Information processing apparatus, power saving control method, and storage medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTakehito Kuroko
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus has a sub system that, while a main system is in power saving state, analyzes a protocol of a network communication and recovers the main system to an ordinary power mode from the power saving state, in accordance with the protocol. There is a setting unit that sets a re-transition condition which is a condition to make the main system switch to the power saving state again, depending on a kind of the network communication. Further, there is a control unit that monitors whether the re-transition condition is satisfied and switches the main system to the power saving state in response to the re-transition condition being satisfied.
Claims8
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a sub system that, while a main system is in power saving state, analyzes a protocol of a network communication and recovers the main system to an ordinary power mode from the power saving state, in accordance with the protocol;
- a setting unit that sets a re-transition condition which is a condition to make the main system switch to the power saving state again, depending on a kind of the network communication;
- a control unit that monitors whether the re-transition condition is satisfied and switches the main system to the power saving state in response to the re-transition condition being satisfied.
A power saving control method in an information processing apparatus which includes a sub system which operates while a main system is in a power saving state, the method comprising:
- recovering, in response to a network communication, the main system from the power saving state;
- setting a re-transition condition which is a condition which causes the main system to switch to the power saving state again, depending on a type of the network communication which caused the recovery of the main system;
- determining whether the re-transition condition is satisfied;
- switching the main system to the power saving state, when the determining determines that the re-transition condition is satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.