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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Eli M. Dow, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Michael R. Kelly, Albany, NY (US);

Harry R. Kolar, Scottsdale, AZ (US);

Michael L. Passow, West Hurley, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G01D 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G01D 11/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An aspect of the disclosure includes a method, a system and a computer program product. The method includes measuring a first data with a sensor, the sensor and operatively coupled computing resources having at least two power states, an operating power state and a low power state, the low power state consuming less energy than the operating power state. A first time period is determined for measuring a second data, the first time period being based at least in part on the first data. The sensor is operated, and operatively coupled computing resources at the low power state during the first time period, wherein no data measurements are acquired during the first time period. The sensor is changed to the operating power state at an expiration of the first time period.


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