447 results about "Hibernation" patented technology

In an electronic device capable of running multiple software applications concurrently, applications, documents, cards, or other activities can be selected for hibernation so as to free up system resources for other activities that are in active use. A determination is made as to which activities should hibernate, for example based on a determination as to which activities have not been used recently or based on relative resource usage. When an activity is to hibernate, its state is preserved on a storage medium such as a disk, so that the activity can later be revived in the same state and the user can continue with the same task that was being performed before the activity entered hibernation.

Resume of a computing device from hibernation may be performed in multiple phases. Each phase may partially restore a state of the computing device to an operational state and may establish an environment in which another phase of the resume is performed. The hibernation information may be partitioned to store separately data to be used at each resume phase. The information may be stored in a compressed form. In a first phase, a boot-level resume loader may restore a portion of the operating system based on a portion of the hibernation information. The restored portion may be used in a second phase to retrieve hibernation information from another portion through the operating system (OS). Multiple processors supported by the OS may read and decompress the hibernation information that is then moved back to operational memory. The operating system may support asynchronous disk input / output or other functions that accelerate the resume process.

A memory system self-initiates hibernation mode and responds to host commands issued during hibernation within a host protocol timeout period. Hibernation mode is entered after controller state data has been stored and while no host command to the memory system is pending. Power to volatile data storage is diminished during hibernation mode. Upon receiving a host command during hibernation mode, power is restored and a reduced portion of the controller state data is read from non-volatile memory. A removable data storage device or a portable electronic device with embedded data storage may be constructed with such a self-hibernating memory system.

A wireless tracking device operating in at least two modes to reduce power consumption and extend the operable period of the wireless tracking device. In an active mode, the wireless tracking device samples sensor signals at a higher resolution and may also actively communicate with a remote device via wireless connection. In a hibernation mode, most of the components or modules in the wireless tracking device are shut down to reduce power consumption. The wireless tracking device may switch to the active mode when a predetermine event is detected.

Methods and systems are disclosed that may be employed to improve efficiency of smart integrated power stages (IPstages) of multi-phase VR systems while operating under relatively light, ultra-light, or partial or reduced loads. The disclosed methods and systems may be implemented to improve VR system light load efficiency by providing and enabling reduced power IPstage operating modes in one or more smart IPstage / s of a VR system, and by enabling state transition between IPstage active and reduced power operating modes such as IPstage standby and IPstage hibernation modes.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enables a computing device to save additional power by entering a “hibernation mode,” wherein the active state of the computing device is preserved in non-volatile storage while power to volatile storage is turned off. During operation, the system reanimates a computing device from a hibernation image by restoring reanimation code from the hibernation image and then executing the reanimation code. While executing this reanimation code, the system restores the rest of the hibernation image by, reading compressed data containing the rest of the hibernation image, and decompressing the compressed data using computational circuitry within the computing device. During this process, the decompression operations are overlapped with the reading operations to improve performance.

An apparatus and method for providing a quicker boot for computer systems is provided. The hibernation state file content of a similar computer system is captured and sent to a unit being manufactured. As a result, the unit being manufactured may operate according to the hibernation state. When the unit is operating in such a fashion, the time required for a reboot is reduced which may provide for more efficient software installation for build to order computer systems.

A system that causes a computing device to enter a hibernation mode. During operation, the system creates a hibernation image for the computing device by identifying processes that do not have visible user interface elements, and generating the hibernation image so that processes with visible user interface elements can be reanimated from the hibernation image first to get the computing device reanimated quickly, while the identified processes are reanimated later. Next, the system stores the hibernation image in non-volatile storage. The system then causes the computing device to enter the hibernation mode, wherein the active state of the computing device is preserved in non-volatile storage while power to volatile storage is turned off.

Hibernation and remote restore functions of a client logical partition (LPAR) that exists within a data processing system having cluster-aware Virtual Input / Output (I / O) Servers (VIOSes) is performed via receipt of commands via a virtual control panel (VCP) through an underlying hypervisor. The client hibernation data file is stored in a shared repository by a source / original VIOS assigned to the client. The hypervisor receives a remote restart command and assigns a target / remote client LPAR and a target VIOS. The source I / O adapters and target I / O adapters are locked and the target VIOS gathers adapter configuration information from the source VIOS and configures the target adapters to be able to perform the I / O functionality provided by the source adapters to the client LPAR. The target VIOS then retrieves the client's hibernation data file, and the client LPAR is restored at the remote LPAR with the target VIOS providing the client's I / O functionality.

New devices and methods for diagnosis and compositions and methods for treatment of cancers use combinations of antimicrobial agents and agents that can reverse dormancy and hibernation pathways. We unexpectedly found that surprisingly low doses of anti-hibernation compounds can substantially inhibit cancer cell growth in vitro and can successfully treat cancers, including metastatic cancer. We also unexpectedly found that antimicrobial agents and anti-HDS compounds together can increase the degree of inhibition of cancer cell growth in a synergistic fashion. We conclude that combination therapy with antimicrobial agents and anti-HDS compounds can be effective in treating human patients with cancer.

Server cluster management includes dynamically migrating machines between different server pools within the server cluster. The server pools include an active pool and at least one standby pool. Different standby pools can also be maintained to provide machines in different states of standby, including but not limited to different powered down or hibernation states. Machines are migrated between the different server pools based on network demands and machine status and capabilities. In some instances, the network demands are determined by forecasting future demands. The status and capability of the individual machines is evaluated on a continual basis to determine whether there is adequate capacity of the machines in the active pool to satisfy the one or more network demands, as well as to determine which machine is the most appropriate machine to migrate between server pools. Machines can also be migrated between the different standby pools.

A mechanism is provided for a personal computer to preserve user and system state data in the event of an AC power failure when the computer is in a standby state. When the AC power failure occurs, a switchover circuit connects a rechargeable energy storage medium, such as a rechargeable battery, to the power supply of the computer for powering components of computer, and the computer is awaken. A critical battery alarm is then issued to trigger the operating system of the computer to perform a transition into a hibernation state, during which the state data of the computer are persistently stored. The energy storage medium is disconnected from the power supply after the computer system has entered hibernation.

The invention discloses a wasp breeding method. The method comprises the steps of firstly, in autumn, putting female and male wasps having mating flight into a wasp breeding shed for mating, secondly, keeping the female wasps after mating in a dark place for hibernation, and in the spring of the coming year, putting the individual female wasps after hibernation in nesting boxes for waking, and finally, putting the nesting boxes in the wasp breeding shed so that the female wasps ovulate, and if the emergence number of larvae is 15-20, moving the nesting box to a field farm from the wasp breeding shed for breeding. As a result, the problem that the wild wasp population cannot be applied to the biological breeding field is solved, and the wasp can be well applied to the fields of forestry, crops and fruit trees, and therefore, the wasp breeding has the advantages of improving the yields of the forestry, the crops and the fruit trees while protecting the wasp specie, and also has relatively high direct economic benefit and wide market prospect.

In an electronic device capable of running multiple software applications concurrently, applications, documents, cards, or other activities can be selected for hibernation so as to free up system resources for other activities that are in active use. A determination is made as to which activities should hibernate, for example based on a determination as to which activities have not been used recently or based on relative resource usage. When an activity is to hibernate, its state is preserved on a storage medium such as a disk, so that the activity can later be revived in the same state and the user can continue with the same task that was being performed before the activity entered hibernation.

The invention provides a train hibernation and awakening processing method. The method includes the steps that parking areas supporting hibernation operation and a train operation plan are preset; after a train stops in one parking area, the train number and the current parking area of the train are sent to an automatic train monitoring system (ATS); according to the preset parking areas supporting hibernation operation, the preset train operation plan and the train number and the current parking area of the train, whether operation of the train is finished or not is judged through the ATS, and if the operation is finished already, the ATS automatically issues a hibernation instruction; after receiving the hibernation instruction issued by the ATS, a train-mounted overspeed protection system (ATP) is driven to switch off a train equipment power source and a train-mounted equipment power source; the ATP determines that the train equipment power source and the train-mounted equipment power source of the train are in a switched-off state and feeds back to the ATS. The train hibernation operation can be automatically completed according to the operation plan through the train hibernation and awakening processing method.

The invention discloses a wireless sensor network distributed hibernation method based on probability statistics, belonging to the technical field of communication network. After distributed hibernation process is started, when being in a redundant state, a node to be tested sends hibernation announcement message to nodes at the same layer, a forward node and a backward node; the forward node modifies the working state of the node to be tested in neighbor node list into a hibernation state; when the node to be tested is not the only one in an activated state in the nodes at the same layer or not the only forward node in the activated state of the backward node, the nodes at the same layer and the backward node modify the working state of the node to be tested in the neighbor node list intoa hibernation state; the node to be tested can be used for closing a wireless communication module and is formally switched into the hibernation state; and after a hibernation timer is time-out, thenode to be tested sends hibernation awaking message to the nodes at the same layer, the forward node and the backward node. The method can guarantee the network connectivity and lead the network nodesto do self-adapting hibernation adjustment according to different application awareness.

A method and apparatus for managing the caching of data on an auxiliary memory of a computer. Pages of data may be cached on an auxiliary memory, such as a flash memory, at a virtual level using an identifier that does not involve a physical address of the pages on a memory. Pages may be cached on auxiliary memory that may be removable from the computer, e.g., by unplugging the memory from the computer. Page data may be encrypted and / or compressed on the auxiliary memory. An authentication indicator may be used to verify the accuracy of cached data in the case of an interrupted connection to the auxiliary memory, e.g., as a result of computer power down, hibernation, removal of the memory from the computer, etc.

A system that causes a computing device to enter a hibernation mode. During operation, the system creates a hibernation image for the computing device by identifying processes that do not have visible user interface elements, and generating the hibernation image so that processes with visible user interface elements can be reanimated from the hibernation image first to get the computing device reanimated quickly, while the identified processes are reanimated later. Next, the system stores the hibernation image in non-volatile storage. The system then causes the computing device to enter the hibernation mode, wherein the active state of the computing device is preserved in non-volatile storage while power to volatile storage is turned off.

The present invention "provides a computing system power-saving method and device for instantaneous power-on recovery from a dormant state". A computing system can save more power than S3 state by entering S4 state after long periods of inactivity, and has instant-on capability when resuming from S4 state by using a fast accessible non-volatile cache. When the system enters the S4 state, the memory contents are not stored to the disk drive, but are cached in the non-volatile cache. The non-volatile cache can be coupled to a bus that connects the disk drives with the disk controller. When resuming from the S4 state, memory contents can be read from the non-volatile cache instead of the slow disk drive. Both caching and restoration procedures can be performed in an OS-transparent manner. Mapping tables can be created and stored in the non-volatile cache during caching to provide efficient reads from the non-volatile cache during recovery.

The invention provides a charging control method and system, wherein the method includes: when a vehicle is in hibernation mode, detecting whether a low-voltage battery is in undervoltage or not; if yes, acquiring state information of the vehicle; judging whether charging the low-voltage battery through a power battery is available according to the state information; if yes, using the power battery to charge the low-voltage battery. By using the method, it is avoided that charging is stopped due to vehicle wakeup in case of no need for charging and in case of the low-voltage battery being not fully charged; vehicle system and parts safety is effectively protected.

The invention discloses a method for controlling household appliances. The method includes: acquiring historical hibernation data of a user; determining operating parameters of the household appliances according to the historical hibernation data; adjusting the operating parameters of the household appliances according to the operating parameters. The invention further discloses a terminal and a device for controlling the household appliances. By the terminal, the device and the method for controlling the household appliances, comfort and accuracy in adjustment of the operating parameters of the household appliances are improved.

The invention relates to a universal data acquisition unit and a data acquisition method thereof, belonging to the technical field of data acquisition; the universal data acquisition unit comprises amicroprocessor; a multi-path discrete signal input interface is connected with the input end of a counter by a photoelectric isolating circuit, and a multi-path continuous signal input interface is connected with the input end of an A / D converter, and a microprocessor is connected with the input ends of the A / D converter and the counter. The data acquisition method comprises that: system initialization is carried out; continuous and discrete signal interrupt vector is set; interrupt latency is carried out, if the discrete signal is interrupted, the discrete signal is acquired; if the continuous signal is interrupted, the continuous signal is acquired; if a watchdog is interrupted, a system is restarted; if hibernation is interrupted, system setting data is stored, and then a hibernation state is carried out; and then, interrupt latency awaken operation is carried out, if awakening is interrupted, the system is started, and the setting is restored before interruption; if the continuoussignal and the discrete signal are acquired, interrupt latency is continuously carried out after data is transmitted to an upper computer; if not, interrupt latency is carried out directly.

An embedded device is hibernated by storing state data of the embedded device to a non-volatile data storage medium, and powering off the embedded device. The embedded device is later woken up in response to the detection of a wakeup event from a wakeup source. The state data stored in the RAM of the embedded device comprises data in one or more registers of a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the embedded device, one or more registers of a system-on-chip (SOC) of the embedded device, and the system and applications code and data. Waking the embedded device comprises loading, from the non-volatile data storage medium, initial memory sections that are used to run a kernel of the embedded device. State data that is stored in the RAM of a system may be compressed by dividing the RAM into a plurality of sections and independently choosing, for each section in the plurality of sections, a corresponding compression arithmetic.

The high-yield breeding method of Japanese prawn includes controlling white spot of Japanese prawn with two-layer latent-sand aquiculture pond, convective circulating sand washing via pneumatic lift of water, automatic dirt collection and drainage via horizontal circulating flow, through and feeding live feedstuff through special treatment, applying prawn disease treating chemical powder and water sterilizing medicine, using transparent plastic house and hibernation via using solar energy completely. The aquiculture pond is downwards inclined towards the center and has water inlet and drainage holes, dirt drainage hole, dirt drainage well, support under the pond bottom, porous plate, screen, sand layer and spawn escape preventing net.

Resume of a computing device from hibernation may be performed in multiple phases. Each phase may partially restore a state of the computing device to an operational state and may establish an environment in which another phase of the resume is performed. The hibernation information may be partitioned to store separately data to be used at each resume phase. The information may be stored in a compressed form. In a first phase, a boot-level resume loader may restore a portion of the operating system based on a portion of the hibernation information. The restored portion may be used in a second phase to retrieve hibernation information from another portion through the operating system (OS). Multiple processors supported by the OS may read and decompress the hibernation information that is then moved back to operational memory. The operating system may support asynchronous disk input / output or other functions that accelerate the resume process.

Before hibernating a computing device (102), system software components (116) are notified of an upcoming hibernation process. The notifications are conveyed through an application program interface (API) (114). At least a portion of the system software components (116) can perform one or more pre-hibernation activities to place that system software component (116) in a ready-to-resume state. Each system software component indicates when it is ready for hibernation. Responsive to receiving the indication from each of the system software components (116), the hibernation process can complete. The completed hibernation process creates a snapshot (122) in nonvolatile memory. The snapshot (122) saves state information (124) for each of the system software components (116). The state information (124) is for the ready-to-resume state of the system software components (116). The computing device (102) can be restored after hibernation using a resume process (130), which reads the state (124) information from the snapshot (122).

The embodiment of the invention provides a facility grape early-maturing promoting culture method, and relates to the field of agricultural planting. Time to market of facility grapes can be 10 to 20 days earlier than time to market of conventional early-maturing promoting culture grapes, and economic benefits are increased. The method includes the steps that during the secondary expansion period of the facility grapes, 2 to 3 bud eyes are reserved on a mother branch in advance, and the mother branch serves as a main fruiting branch in a next year; the reserved 2 to 3 bud eyes grow into young sprouts under the normal management condition and reach the degree of lignification before artificial hibernation of the facility grapes, flower bud differentiation is ahead of time, and the facility grapes bloom and bear fruits in advance.

A shared file system may be updated by a non-native operating system writing information to a change file, while a native operating system is in a suspend or hibernation mode; after writing, the non-native operating system is placed in a suspend or hibernation mode and the native system activates and then retrieves the updated information from the change file and writes the updated information to a shared file system. The native operating system returns to a suspend or hibernate state before the non-native operating resumes operation. The updated information may be written as provided by the non-native operating system, or further updated by the native operating system before being written to the shared file system. The change file is created by the native operating system, and may be a reserved portion of the shared file system or may be a separate portion of non-volatile memory. The native and non-native operating systems operate both concurrently and independent of one another; thereby, preventing conflicts during file system updating.