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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. 15, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Duhault, Toronto, CA;
Tsang Fai Ma, Scarborough, CA;
Assignee:
ATI International SRL, Barbados, KN;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant 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
In one embodiment of the present invention, an application responds to a low power operation request based upon its current state. In another mode, the application responds based upon its own current state and the state of a second application. Examples of such low power application requests include a suspend operation request issued by an operating system. Examples of such applications include multi-media applications.