Patent ID: 7670253

Claim:
Article of manufacture, comprising a storage medium having a computer program encoded therein for effecting a method to off-load torque to a torque transfer device of a transmission, said torque transmitted from one of a plurality of torque-generative devices, the computer program comprising: code for determining a commanded output torque of the transmission; code for preferentially transmitting a first motive torque from a first subset of the torque-generative devices to the transmission; code for preferentially transmitting a supplemental motive torque to the transmission substantially equal to a difference between the commanded output torque and the first motive torque, said supplemental motive torque transmitted from an oncoming torque-transfer device; and, code for adjusting torque transmitted from a second subset of the torque-generative devices by an amount substantially equal to a difference between the commanded output torque and the first and the supplemental motive torques.