Patent ID: 6523125
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
An information handling system provided with a CPU, a volatile memory and a non-volatile external storage device, and supporting a hibernation function which interrupts a task under execution in response to occurrence of a predetermined event, saves hibernation information including the content of said memory in a hibernation information storing area in said external storage device, stops electric feeding to parts in the system, and then causes the system to shift to a hibernation mode, the information handling system comprising;(a) means for saving hibernation information including the content of said memory in a hibernation information storing area in said external storage device, (b) a hibernation managing information storing area provided in a fixed place in said external storage device, (c) means for sheltering data existing in said hibernation managing information storing area to said hibernation information storing area in response to occurrence of said predetermined event, (d) means for storing the hibernation managing information in said hibernation managing information storing area after the data has been sheltered by said means (c), and (e) means for stopping electric feeding to parts in the system after said means (a), (c) and (d) have executed their functions.