Patent ID: 7500114
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for controlling a power management in a system that uses a power source, the apparatus comprising: a detection block configured to detect whether a prescribed condition is satisfied; and a control device coupled to the detection block configured to output a signal corresponding to a C4 power management state based on information detected by the detection block, wherein the prescribed condition is whether at least one prescribed device is currently in use, whether a prescribed application is currently in use, or a user-condition related to sound, wherein: detection of the prescribed device or the prescribed application currently in use is carried out by a power management routine, the power management routine is a battery miser application that includes a filter driver or a shell execute hook routine configured to respectively detect at least one of the prescribed device or the prescribed application, and the battery miser application is stored in a hard disk drive (HDD) of a memory device loaded on a main memory during a system operation and is executed by a central processing unit (CPU) of the control device.