Ep 0565914 A1
Europaisches Patentamt European Patent Office © Publication number: 0 565 914 A1 Office europeen des brevets EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION © Application number: 93104769.0 int ci 5 G06F 1/32 @ Date of filing: 23.03.93 © Priority: 15.04.92 US 870124 Inventor: Lee, Nathan Junsup 19 Scher Drive © Date of publication of application: New York City, New York 10956(US) 20.10.93 Bulletin 93/42 Inventor: Leontiades, Kyriakos 353 N.W. 22 Street 0 Designated Contracting States: Boca Raton, Florida 33431 (US) DE FR GB Inventor: Novak, Frank Peter 82 Oak Avenue © Applicant: International Business Machines Park Ridge, New Jersey 07656(US) Corporation Inventor: Sharma, Vikram Old Orchard Road 32 Hillview Drive Armonk, N.Y. 10504(US) Pleasantville, New York 10570(US) @ Inventor: Kannan, Krishnamurthi 2715 Evergreen Street © Representative: Monig, Anton, Dipl.-lng. Yorktown Heights, New York 10598(US) IBM Deutschland Informationssysteme Inventor: Jones, Christopher Dane GmbH, 1356 Dorchester Drive Patentwesen und Urheberrecht Georgetown, Kentucky 40324(US) D-70548 Stuttgart (DE) (sf) A system for distributed power management in portable computers. © The present invention provides a system and function of the conditions sensed by the sensing method for managing power in a portable, pen- means. based notebook computer. The system and method provides a means for minimizing power consumption by collecting and interpreting power related data at various processing elements while hiding many of the details from the end-user. The present invention is a system and method for monitoring, collecting and acting upon power-related data in a portable computer to maximize the amount of time the porta- ble computer can be used between battery re-charg- ing with minimal user intervention.
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