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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:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Louis B Hobson, Tomball, TX (US);
John D Battles, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713300 ; 713324 ;
Abstract
An advanced configuration and power interface operating system transparent method to control the wake-to-sleep and sleep-to-wake transitions includes: detecting a sleep enable command; temporarily blocking completion of the sleep enable command; generating an interrupt; configuring an input-output device; and completing the sleep enable command. The sleep enable command can be a write command to an advanced configuration and power interface sleep enable data storage unit. The generated interrupt can be a system management interrupt that invokes a basic input-output device configuration program.