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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew Radcliffe Rawson, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Guy Gil Sotomayor, Jr, West Palm Beach, FL (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395750 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing power states of at least one hardware resource, including registering at least one hardware resource power state corresponding to a software process, determining whether a current hardware resource power state fulfills the registered hardware resource power state corresponding to the software process, and modifying the current hardware resource power state that is determined not to fulfill the registered hardware resource power state prior to executing the software process.