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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39575005 ; 39575007 ;
Abstract
A computer system, which shifts a mode to a power saving mode when there is no user input at a keyboard for a predetermined time period, employs a circuit for detecting writing to a video memory, and a power management program for managing power in corporation with the circuit. When the writing to a video memory is performed, a shift to the power saving mode is inhibited, even though there is no input at the keyboard during the predetermined time period.