Patent ID: 7480813

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a body having a CPU therein; a lid, wherein the apparatus is used by opening the lid for the body; a sensor circuit which determines whether said lid is opened or closed; a first circuit, coupled to said sensor circuit, which stops a first operating state and shifts the apparatus to a transfer mode in response to sensing that the lid is closed, wherein the transfer mode stops an operating state of a device that may be damaged by a transfer of the apparatus without stopping the CPU and without stopping devices that take a predetermined amount of time to start up, wherein the devices that take a predetermined amount of time to start up comprises at least a wireless LAN device; and a second circuit, coupled to said sensor circuit, which shifts the apparatus to the first operating state in response to sensing that the lid is opened, wherein the second circuit clears the stoppage of the operating state of the device that may be damaged by a transfer of the apparatus.