SOFTWARE COMMUNICATING WITH POWER

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
R-COMM	HD ELECTRIC COMPANY	1475 Lakeside Drive Waukegan IL 60085	Software for communicating with power distribution controllers; power distribution controllers; power distribution controller hardware; computer hardware device, namely, a USB (universal serial bus) dongle device to provide secure data communications with power distribution controllers;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A method and apparatus for managing power consumption of a processing unit having an operating system (OS) or software system and access to at least one hardware timer saves power by putting the processing unit into one of at least two low power states when the OS or software system is not expected to do work. A time period for which the software system is not expected to perform work is determined, and a determination is made as to which one of at least two low power states to put the processing unit in, in response to the time period. The hardware timer is configured to facilitate waking up the software system or OS in time for it to perform expected work. The processing unit and software system are transitioned into the chosen low power state. They are transitioned out of the low power state in response to a hardware interrupt.