Patent ID: 7310740

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a housing; plural processing components disposed in the housing and operable to process information; a cover coupled to the housing and operable to between an open position and a closed position; a display integrated in the system, the display visible to a user in the open position and protected from view in the closed position; a switch associated with the cover and housing and interfaced with the processing components, the switch operable to detect whether the cover is in the open position or closed position and to communicate the detected cover position to the processing components; a power manager associated with the processing components and operable to alter the operation of the processing components when the detected cover position changes from the open position to the closed position; and a cover delay module interfaced with the power manager and operable to delay the power manager from altering the operation of the processing components by predetermined amount of time after the cover position changes from the open position to the closed position; wherein the processing components comprise a BIOS, the switch interfaces with the BIOS, the BIOS communicates the detected position to the power manager and the power manager comprises an operating system module, and wherein the cover delay module delays the power manager by delaying communication of the detected position to the power manager.