Suspension and/or throttling of processes for connected standby

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8930951-B2
Application number	US-201213616204-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2012
Priority date	Aug 10, 2011
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for assigning power management classifications to a process, transitioning a computing environment into a connected standby state based upon power management classifications assigned to processes, and transitioning the computing environment from the connected standby state to an execution state. That is, power management classifications, such as exempt, throttle, and/or suspend, may be assigned to processes based upon various factors, such as whether a process provides desired functionality and/or whether the process provides functionality relied upon for basic operation of the computing environment. In this way, the computing environment may be transitioned into a low power connected standby state that may continue executing desired functionality, while reducing power consumption by suspending and/or throttling other functionality. Because some functionality may still execute, the computing environment may transition into the execution state in a responsive manner to quickly provide a user with up-to-date information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for transitioning into a connected standby state based upon power management classifications assigned to processes, comprising:
detecting an enter connected standby request associated with a computing environment; and
transitioning the computing environment into a connected standby state, comprising:
for respective suspendable processes assigned a suspend classification, placing a suspendable process into a non-executing suspended state;
for re…

Assignees

• Berry Jon
• Microsoft Corp

Inventors

• Berry Jon

Classifications

• Y02D10/00

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G06F9/4418

  Physics · mapped topic

• Y02B60/144

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G06F1/3209

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/4893

  Physics · mapped topic