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US 7,444,096 B2Granted
Electronic device power supply
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsBradley M. Lowman, Michael C. Muthart, Andrew R. Smith
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Abstract
A method and apparatus initiate the supply of power to a component to ready the component to perform a function in response to further operator input.
Claims32
An electronic device comprising:
- a component;
- a time measurement device;
- an input device configured to receive a time value input from a user;
- and
- a controller configured (1) to determine an amount of time that the component will be unpowered based upon the time value input and a time at which supply of power to the component is terminated, (2) to compare the determined amount of time to a minimum threshold amount of time, and (3) to generate a signal based upon the time value input and input from the time measurement device to initiate supply of power to the component to ready the component to perform a function in response to further operator input if the determined amount of time is at least the minimum threshold amount of time, wherein the minimum threshold amount of time is a minimum amount of time at which power savings resulting from not supplying power to the component meet or exceed power consumed by readying the component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.