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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:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2012
Applicants:
Dallas M Barlow, Houston, TX (US);
Jon G Lloyd, Cypress, TX (US);
Inventors:
Dallas M Barlow, Houston, TX (US);
Jon G Lloyd, Cypress, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlwtt-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to a computing system including a controller hub to control system sleep states, and an embedded controller including an internal timer. The embedded controller is to remove power from the controller hub when the system enters a sleep state and to enable power to the controller hub prior to the system wake time. The internal timer is to determine when to enable power to the controller hub. Example methods and machine-readable storage media are also disclosed.