Patent ID: 8095814

Claim:
A method for power management of a computing device from a monitoring device, the method comprising: selecting the monitoring device from among a group of available trusted computing devices connected to the computing device and a connected device on a network; maintaining a power mode of the monitoring device; identifying, at the monitoring device, a correlation between active states of the computing device and active states of the connected device, wherein the connected device is connected to the computing device through the network, wherein the monitoring device is the connected device, wherein the identifying the correlation comprises: determining if the connected device has been designated in a calendar file as being dependent on the computing device; the monitoring device detecting that the connected device is active; and the monitoring device detecting that the computing device is in a power-saving mode, wherein the correlation comprises first operations in the connected device being dependent upon second operations in the computing device; and responsive to identifying the correlation, and the monitoring device detecting that the computing device is in the power-saving mode, the monitoring device waking the computing device from the power-saving mode.