Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Mizuho Tadokoro

Takashi Inui

Mitsuhiro Yamazaki

Susumu Shimotono

Takayuki Katoh

Hiroyuki Uchida

Shigefumi Odaohhara

Masaki Kobayashi

Noritoshi Yoshiyama

Takeshi Matsumoto

Takaaki Aoki

Atsushi Kumaki

Kazuya Tsukizawa

Atsushu Miyashita

Atsushi Miyashita

A method and system are provided for thermal management of a portable computing apparatus. Accelerometers are provided to detect changes in attitude, and temperature sensors are provided to detect changes in temperature. A fan is used to cool the internal temperature of the electronic components of the computer. In response to lift of the computer from a stationary surface, the computer may transition to an alternative state of operation. The transition may include the change of the speed of the fan and/or adjustment of the processor clock.

Thermal management of a personal computing apparatus

A display device which displays a plurality of objects on a screen has a group configuration storage section for storing association information indicating the association between each of the plurality of objects and one of a plurality of groups, a group priority level storage section for storing group display priority levels which are priority levels for displaying each of the objects associated with one of the groups at the front of the objects associated with the other groups, an object priority level storage section for storing object display priority levels which are priority levels for displaying one of the objects associated with one of the groups at the front of the others, an object priority level changing section for changing the object display priority level while the association information is maintained, and a display section for displaying the plurality of objects according to the group display priority levels and the object display priority levels.

Displaying objects using group and object priority levels

A system and method for translating character strings into another national language and displaying the translated character strings without updating any source code. The character strings are displayed on GUI environment upon the execution of the object computer program. The method for displaying character strings on GUI environment provided by a computer program comprises the steps of; (a) providing an executable program; (b) providing a text file including the character strings and being openable with the executable program; (c) executing the executable program (); (d) retrieving the text file from the executable program (); and (e) displaying the character strings included in the opened text file ().

Method for displaying character strings

An information processing apparatus that is driven by a rechargeable battery, wherein the battery is depleted from a fully charged state and repeatedly charged and discharged, comprises a full charge capacity acquisition unit for acquiring a present full charge capacity of the battery which the battery has at the present time, a total charge acquiring unit for acquiring information indicating a total amount of charge provided to the battery in a time period from a start time of using the battery until the present full charge capacity is acquired, and a restoring unit for performing a battery restoration in which the battery is fully discharged or fully charged in order to recover the full charge capacity if it is determined that the present full charge capacity is smaller than an expected full charge capacity that the battery should have depending on the information.

Autonomic battery reconditioning

A data processing system capable of specifying impeding factors that impede power savings is disclosed. The data processing system includes a central processing unit, an operation mode detection unit, and an impeding factors specifying unit. The central processing unit has multiple operation modes, and each of the operation modes has a different rate of power consumption. The operation mode detection unit detects an operation mode of the central processing unit. Based on a history of operation modes of the central processing unit that was detected by the operation mode detection unit, the impeding factors specifying unit specifies a device that is considered as an impeding factor to power savings for the data processing system.

Method and apparatus for specifying factors that impede power savings of a processor

An information processing apparatus driven by an AC power supply or a rechargeable battery has a charge directing unit which initiates charging of the battery from the AC power supply, provided that the remaining amount of power of the battery is lower than a predetermined charge-start-criteria level and that the information processing apparatus is driven by the AC power supply. Also included is a drive history storage which stores a drive history including information indicating which of the AC power supply and the battery was driving the information processing apparatus in each time period in the past. A recharge-start-criteria-level-setting unit sets the charge-start-criteria level on the basis of the drive history.

Information processing apparatus for setting charge-start criteria level based on power supply drive history

A computer provided with an intelligent batteryfor charging/discharging, the intelligent batterysupplying power to a main system unit, wherein the intelligent batteryincludes: a voltage measuring circuitfor measuring a battery voltage of the intelligent batterya current measuring circuitfor measuring a charging/discharging current of the intelligent batterya temperature measuring circuitfor measuring a temperature of the intelligent batteryand a CPUfor periodically reading the battery voltage measured by the voltage measuring circuitthe charging/discharging current measured by the current measuring circuitand the temperature measured by the temperature measuring circuitso as to manage a capacity deterioration of the battery due to a storage deterioration and a cycle deterioration, and wherein the main system unit includes an embedded controllerfor receiving information about the capacity deterioration from the CPUof the battery.

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Yamato, Japan

Mizuho Tadokoro