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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tony Barrett, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
Abstract
A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention provides for monitoring a device for a disturbance so as to detect a disturbance, wherein the monitoring occurs while the device is in an inactive state. The method further includes taking a first set of actions if a disturbance is detected during the monitoring, and taking a second set of actions if a disturbance is not detected during the monitoring. The second set of actions decreases the consumption of consumables by the device as compared to the consumption of consumables which would have occurred if, instead, the first set of actions had been taken.