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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. 25, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael R. Flannery, Sioux City, IA (US);
Assignee:
Gateway, Inc., Poway, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 ; G06F 1/28 ; G06F 1/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 ; G06F 1/28 ; G06F 1/30 ;
Abstract
A computer having an emergency protection program is disclosed. The emergency protection program turns off the computer in response to receiving a notification of an impending potential local emergency. In one embodiment, the program receives the notification from an external network site over an external network connection. In one embodiment, the program waits a predetermined amount of time prior to shutting down the computer, and also is responsive to an abort-shut down input to not shut down the computer, or an immediate-shut down input to immediately shut down the computer.