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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185759 | Methods and systems for interfacing bus powered devices with host devices providing limited power levels Various techniques are provided for interfacing external devices with host computer systems. In one example, hard drive parameters may be retrieved from a nonvolatile memory of an external hard drive enclosure device in order to register the external device with a h... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176344 | Information processing apparatus and control method thereof An information processing apparatus used to reduce power supply to nonvolatile memory when in power saving mode. To accomplish this, the information processing apparatus stores data in the nonvolatile memory that can be used in power saving mode to a volatile memory... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8161301 | Method and apparatus for waking remote terminal A method and apparatus for waking up a remote main system. The method includes: certifying whether a user of a terminal which transmits a packet for waking up a main system that is in a sleeping state is a legitimate user of the main system; and transmitting a wake-... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161302 | Method and apparatus for data transmission in wireless local access network and system therefor An Apparatus, method, and system for transmitting data in a Wireless Local Access Network (WLAN) in a power management state are provided. The method includes registering a standby state entrance to an Access Point (AP), switching to an active state at a period, det... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156353 | Techniques for communications power management based on system states Techniques for communications based power management based on system states are described. An apparatus may comprise a communications sub-system having a control policy module, a controller and a first transceiver capable of operating at different communications rat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151126 | Controlling power consumption in a data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus, bus logic and method are provided for controlling power consumption within a data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus has a plurality of logic elements, at least one of the logic elements being an initiator logic element ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140871 | Wake on Lan for blade server A computer implemented method, a tangible computer medium, and a data processing system are provided for waking a blade server from an operational state of reduced power. When server blade enters the state of reduced power, a service firmware configures a multi-port... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8117470 | Home network client and server including energy-away control element and control method thereof Provided are a home network client and server including an energy-away control element (ECE), and a control method thereof. A client advertises an ECE serving as a functional block of each service unit. The advertisement is recognized and the ECE is registered by a ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103886 | Dedicated power supply apparatus, terminal, power supply system, and power supply method Disclosed is an electronic device including a rechargeable battery, a connector, a controller, an operation unit, a storage unit, and a playback unit. The connector includes a power supply pin used for supplying power from an external device and for detecting whethe... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099612 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit configured to perform predetermined data processing; a power supply circuit having a first operation mode in which power is supplied to the data processing unit and a second operation mode in which... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095808 | Method, element and circuit board for controlling shutdown of electronic device The invention provides a method, an element and a circuit board for controlling an electronic device to be shut down. The method according to the invention includes the steps as follows. First, a power control signal is received, and the duration of the power contro... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086879 | Powering on devices via intermediate computing device Methods and apparatus relating to powering on devices via an intermediate computing device are described. In an embodiment, a request for data by a first device may be detected at a second device. The second device may determine a third device that stores the reques... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086880 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program An information processing apparatus includes a first information processor, a plurality of second information processor, and a plurality of temperature detecting units detecting temperature in the vicinity of each of the plurality of second information processors. T... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082457 | Data communications device for communicating with and concurrently providing power to a set of powerable devices A method for managing the delivery of power for a plurality of devices includes allocating a power limit for each of the plurality of devices and providing power to at least one of the plurality of devices. The method also includes, in response to the providing of p... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078889 | Method and apparatus for negotiating power between power sourcing equipment and powerable devices The present invention provides a power negotiation protocol that enables PDs and PSEs to negotiate the amount of inline power that a PD consumes and the corresponding PSE provides. This power negotiation allows the PDs provide fine-grained power consumption level to... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074089 | Power supply controlling system A power supply controlling system includes a receiving device, a power supply device, and a transmitting device connected to an information processing apparatus. The receiving device includes a transmitting portion that transmits a switch signal of a power supply sw... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055649 | Scaled management system An exemplary system for managing an applications and data space includes a strategy layer configured to receive a query statement and to formulate one or more custom queries based on the query statement and a query scheduler layer configured to schedule issuance of ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051309 | Method and apparatus to combine power and control signals in a mobile computing device A mobile computing device is described that includes multiple device components, a power supply and a power line connected to each device component. The power supply is operative to provide power signals to the device components over the power lines. The mobile comp... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046610 | Power supply control in a mobile portable device The present invention provides a mobile portable device comprising a network communication module, a power-on circuit, a switching power supply, a system power supply and external battery and a calculation unit, wherein the system power supply and external battery c... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046611 | Information transmission device, system, and method A network includes nodes that transmit information to each other. Some nodes operate intermittently; other nodes operate continuously. Information is transmitted to an intermittently operating node by a handshaking protocol in which the intermittently operating node... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041966 | Electric power supply system, terminal, electric power supply method and computer readable medium The electric power supply system includes a first terminal that electric power is supplied thereto from a first power supply to operate, a second terminal that is connected to the first terminal and that electric power is supplied thereto from a second power supply ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037327 | System and method for improving dynamic response in a power supply A system for improving dynamic response in a power supply includes a mainframe module having a memory and a mainframe microprocessor, the mainframe processor configured to calculate a plurality of tables in which each table represents a current/voltage (I/V) charact... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037328 | Protocol and interface between a LAN on motherboard (LOM) and a powered device (PD) for a personal computing device (PCD) A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) communication system dynamically provides power and data communications over a communications link. In a computing environment made up of one or more personal computing devices (PCD) and/or one or more powered devices (PD), power source e... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028178 | System and method for providing external power on a universal serial bus A universal serial bus power control circuit including at least one first switch which selectively couples a power source node to an external power node, a comparator which detects when the external power node is charged, a feedback node for enabling voltage regulat... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8020013 | Adjustable-voltage power-over-ethernet (PoE) switch An adjustable-voltage Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switch provides data signals and output electrical powers to a multiple number of output PoE ports. The adjustable-voltage PoE switch has an output voltage-adjusting interface, allowing a user to select a specific powe... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010813 | Structure for system for extending the useful life of another system Disclosed is a design structure for an associated first system for extending product life of a second system in the presence of phenomena that cause the exhibition of both performance degradation and recovery properties within system devices. The first system includ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006107 | Method for remote power control and the circuit thereof The present invention provides a remote control system for a power supply, comprising: a display data channel (DDC); a first control circuit electrically connected to said DDC, coding and sending a control signal through said DDC to control said power supply; a seco... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001398 | Power source control method of image forming apparatus, power source control system of image forming apparatus, power source control apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer program product A control unit 51 obtains a user ID of a user who enters a room from card reading information read by card readers so as to judge existence or nonexistence of an available image forming apparatus which has been judged in advance in accordance with the obtaine... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001399 | System and method for secure communication for power over ethernet between a computing device and a switch A system and method for secure communication for power over Ethernet (PoE) between a computing device and a switch. Various power management information can be used as inputs in a process for determining a power request/priority. This power management information ca... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7987377 | System for preventing unauthorized activation of computer An exemplary network system includes a remote computer and a network server. The remote computer includes a baseboard management controller (BMC), a south bridge chipset, a power button, and a switching circuit. The switching circuit has a control terminal connected... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7930571 | Information processing apparatus and power control method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a wireless communication device and a power management module. The power management module is configured to transmit, in response to disconnection of an external power supply device from a pow... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917782 | Computer device having display device capable of being automatically turned off or turned on according to switch motion of host An exemplary computer device (10) includes a host (11) configured for generating a turn on signal when the host is turned on, and a turn off signal when the host is turned off; and a display device (13) including a display unit (131) and ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7917783 | Power switch device The invention provides a power switch device for electronic systems equipped having a power module. The power switch device includes a first switch for activating a first signal, a second switch for activating a second signal, a logic judging module for receiving th... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7900068 | Mobile multi-media interface and power pack for portable entertainment devices A power supply and interface circuit assembly is used with a portable media player (PMP) to relay signals between the PMP and a peripheral device(s), such as a head-mounted display. A power supply in or attached to the assembly provides power to the circuitry, the P... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7886166 | User interface for demand side energy management A user interface is visibly displayed on a display device operatively connected to a first computer. The user interface enables an end user to enter at least one energy management rule for each of a plurality of electrical loads at a location, each rule including a ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882376 | Power control for a core circuit area of a semiconductor integrated circuit device The present invention provides an LSI which comprises first circuit areas (e.g., an I/O area and a VBAT area) in which power is always held ON, a second circuit area (e.g., a CORE area) capable of ON/OFF-switching of the power, a power control circuit which is provi... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877618 | Systems and methods for power management Systems and methods for providing smart power management to one or more external interfaces of an information handling system that is capable of acting as a host for charging and/or otherwise powering one or more external devices via external interface/s that have b... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877619 | Power mode control method and circuitry In some embodiments, a power up (or power mode) interface is provided whereby a chip's power up signals are encoded into multiple states to provide more functions than the number of signals used to define the states. ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873847 | Method of power state control for a server blade in a blade—server chassis system A method for controlling the different power states of a ClientBlade™ from a remote desktop environment is described. A remote user is permitted to control the different power states of the ClientBlade™ remotely via a remote client having an operating system or ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870402 | Control method of storage system, storage system, and storage apparatus When power to a storage device is turned on and the storage device can accept a data input and output request being transmitted from an information processing device, the storage device transmits a power-on request for turning on power to the information processing ... | 01/11/2011 |
