Patent ID: 8717371

Claim:
A method for transitioning a computing device from a first operational mode to a second operational mode, the method comprising: causing operations associated with one or more client applications to be executed in the first operational mode, wherein, in the first operational mode, operations are executed on a first processor while a second processor is powered off; detecting a first system event that indicates a transition from the first operational mode to the second operational mode is likely, wherein, in the second operational mode, operations are executed on the second processor while the first processor is powered off, and the first system event is caused by a mouse cursor being positioned proximate to a graphical operational mode selection mechanism; powering on the second processor in response to the first system event; detecting a second system event that signals the transition from the first operational mode to the second operational mode; determining that not all of the one or more client applications is included in a list of client applications that can be transferred from the first processor to the second processor without resulting in data loss; and transferring a first subset of the one or more client applications that are included in the list of client applications from the first processor to the second processor, and terminating the client applications in a second subset of the one or more client applications that are not included in the list of client applications.