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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ryoji Ninomiya, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 ;
Abstract
A power supply controller measures electrical power consumed by information processing apparatus. An embedded controller passes the data to power management utility software each time a specified length of time is elapsed. The utility software accumulates a difference as found between this consumed power level and a predetermined reference value. The utility software shifts the information processing apparatus into its power-save modes when the accumulated value becomes larger than the predetermined value.