Patent ID: 6411691
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
A device for controlling a power supply enabling the powering up of a computer and all or part of possible peripheral devices thereof either by the intervention of a physically present user, also known as a Local switching-on (AL), or by detection of a call signal coming into the communication network to which the device is connected, also known as a Remote control switching-on (AD), the communication network being a public or private analogue telephone network (Type STN), or a public or private digital network (Type NumÃ©ris, ISDN, computer network for data transmission), characterized in that the device comprises:a first hardware means, made up of a control module (A1) and a power module (A2) either grouped or split up, inside or outside the computer, independent or integrated into a peripheral communication device, constituted as an autonomous group or an integrated sub-group, the control module (A1) being connected to an access point of a communication network, to the computer, to the power module (A2) and to the mains supply, and the power module (A2) being connected to the control module (A1), to the mains supply and to the power supply input of the computer and the power supply input of all or part of the possible peripheral devices; when the computer (4) is powered up, the control module (A1) continually transmitting a switched-on mode (MA) signal; and a second software means permanently set up on the computer and continuously accessible; the second software means including at least one software function enabling the differentiation of the local switching-on mode (AL) from the remote switching-on mode (AD) by interpreting a switching-on mode signal (MA) transmitted by the control module (A1) and a software function enabling the transmission of a powering off order (DE) to the control module (A1).