Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Christopher Lee Bennetts

Christopher W Larsen

Nozomu Yasui

Chrismal R Panditharathne

Kenji Okamoto

Shibata Masakazu

Lee Aktinson

Kiow Hong Josephine Tan

A system comprises a display and logic coupled to the display. The logic automatically begins playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus on the display.

Automatically playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus

Systems and methods for communicating with media modules associated with a computing device are provided. In this regard, a representative method, among others, includes receiving an input to execute at least one media module and determining a power state of a computing device. The computing device generally has multiple power states. The method further includes launching the at least one media module based on the power state of the computing device responsive to determining the power state of the computing device. The media module is configured to be launched from any one of the multiple power states of the computing device.

Systems and methods for communicating with media modules

A method for launching a selected application in a computer system that is either in a sleep state or a power-off state, the computer system includes an operating system (OS) installed therein to execute applications in a normal mode of the OS. The method includes, while the computer system is in one of the sleep state and the power-off state, receiving a command to launch the selected application in the computer system, loading the OS in a sandbox mode preconfigured for the selected application, and the OS in the sandbox mode launching the selected application to run in the computer system.

Launching an application from a power management state

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Hsin Tien, Taiwan

Christopher Lee Bennetts