Patents by Inventor Larry D. Selseth

Larry D. Selseth has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • BIOS for saving and restoring operational state in the absence of AC power
    Patent number: 7685466
    Abstract: A system is provided with a basic input/output system (BIOS) with the ability to intervene, when a suspend process is initiated in response to an AC failure condition to place the system in a suspended to memory state, to initiate a number of data transfer operations to save a persistent copy of an operational state of the system. The BIOS is further equipped to check one or more times whether the data transfer operations are completed, and causing a processor of the system to operate in a reduced power consumption mode at least one time period while the BIOS is not performing the checking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Dunstan, Larry D. Selseth, Dan H. Nowlin
  • BIOS for saving and restoring operational state in the absence of AC power
    Patent number: 7254744
    Abstract: A system is provided with a basic input/output system (BIOS) with the ability to intervene, when a suspend process is initiated in response to an AC failure condition to place the system in a suspended to memory state, to initiate a number of data transfer operations to save a persistent copy of an operational state of the system. The BIOS is further equipped to check one or more times whether the data transfer operations are completed, and causing a processor of the system to operate in a reduced power consumption mode at least one time period while the BIOS is not performing the checking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Dunstan, Larry D. Selseth, Dan H. Nowlin