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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2003
Robert A. Dunstan, Forest Grove, OR (US);
Larry D. Selseth, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dan H. Nowlin, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert A. Dunstan, Forest Grove, OR (US);
Larry D. Selseth, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dan H. Nowlin, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system is provided with a basic input/output system (BIOS) with the ability to intervene, when a suspend process is initiated in response to an AC failure condition to place the system in a suspended to memory state, to initiate a number of data transfer operations to save a persistent copy of an operational state of the system. The BIOS is further equipped to check one or more times whether the data transfer operations are completed, and causing a processor of the system to operate in a reduced power consumption mode at least one time period while the BIOS is not performing the checking.