Patent ID: 7340623
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: G06F,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A power-save computing apparatus comprising: a device information administrator for detecting a fluctuation in a total consumed power of one or more power-consuming devices, for determining a consumed power to be changed so as to suppress the fluctuation in the total consumed power, and for outputting the determined consumed power to be changed; a power-save determinator for generating and outputting a control command for at least one of the one or more devices so that the total consumed power changes in accordance with the consumed power to be changed outputted from the device information administrator; and a device controller for controlling the at least one of the one or more devices in accordance with the control command outputted from the power-save determinator, wherein the device controller includes a controlled state administration table for storing information on a content of operation and a permissible lapse of time of an operation following the control command for each of at least some of the one or more devices, and wherein, if a lapse of time after some content of operation was changed into an operation following the control command exceeds the corresponding permissible lapse of time, then the device controller prohibits the power-save determinator from outputting the control command corresponding to the some content of operation.