Intelligent sleep mode indicator
US6539485B1 · kind B1 · utility
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 6, 1999 |
| Grant date | Mar 25, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 6, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F1/3203
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Intelligence is added to a computer sleep mode indicator system. A method for an intelligent indicator system is provided to turn off the sleep mode status indicator of a computer during sleep mode when a user is known to be unavailable to monitor the indicator, for example, when the user is sleeping or having lunch. This embodiment also handles reasonable variations of user habits. Further, to account for a gradual change of user unavailability habits over time, this invention obtains and applies a user unavailability intelligence by dynamically modifying the beginning and the ending times of a specified user unavailability period based on user experience. One preferred method for dynamically modifying the beginning and ending times is by calculating the moving averages of the actual sleep mode entry and exit times that occurred within a pre-determined period from the specified beginning and ending times.
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