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Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2023
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Cheng-Hung Yang, Taipei, TW;

Isaac Qin Wang, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/07 (2006.01); G01R 33/09 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 1/3206 (2019.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3234 (2013.01); G01R 33/07 (2013.01); G01R 33/093 (2013.01); G06F 1/1616 (2013.01); G06F 1/1677 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01);
Abstract

Managing power states of an IHS, including: identifying, at a first time, an output of a first sensor, a first output of a second sensor, and a second output of the second sensor, the first sensor and the second sensor detecting a presence of one or more magnetic fields; determining, based on the output of the first, second, and the third sensors, that a power state of the information handling system as a working power state, and in response, and at a second time after the first time: determining that the first output of the second sensor changed from a first state to a second state; determining that the output of the first sensor is in the second state; and in response to determining that the output of the first sensor is in the second state, adjusting the power state of the IHS to a low-power state.


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