Wenli Zhu

US Patent:

63049813, Oct 16, 2001

Filed:

Oct 19, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/174712

Inventors:

Cameron Spears - Lake Forest CA
Wenli Zhu - Trabuco Canyon CA

Assignee:

Gateway, Inc. - N. Sioux City SD

International Classification:

H02H 305
G06F 1100

US Classification:

714 24

Abstract:

A system for effecting a shutdown of a networked information handling system automatically determines the time interval required for the information handling system to reach a safe shutdown by continually calculating the time interval necessary to store all volatile information to non-volatile locations and shut down the system. In order to calculate the time interval, heuristics may be determined for various operating systems, applications, application environments, etc. Integration of the system of the present invention may be determined by a particular condition, configuration, and/or environment at any given period of time, and may, for example, be incorporated in environments such as a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) environment or a fault tolerant CPU (Central Processor Unit) shutdown environment.