Graphical view of shutdown process

• US 20050097374A1
• Filed: 11/03/2003
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Smith, David J., Giaquinto, Todd J., O'Leary, John M., Aharonian, David M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,275,169 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/30 Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations for resetting only G06F1/24
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3246 by software initiated power-off

Abstract

A method of controlling shutdown of processes on equipment powered through a UPS comprises: providing a graphical display system and a graphical pointing device; displaying on the graphical display system a graphic having a time access and a process access; arranging along the process access indicia of one or more processes to be shutdown; for at least one of the one or more processes, displaying a time bar extending from a start point along the time access to an end point along the time access; and controlling one of the start point and the end point of the time bar with the pointing device, whereby shutdown of the at least one process is controlled according to the times of the start point and the end point of the time bar.

Claims

1. A method of controlling shut down of processes on equipment powered through an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), comprising:

providing a graphical display system and a graphical pointing device;

displaying on the graphical display system a graph having a time axis and a process axis;

arraying along the process axis indicia of one or more processes to be shut down;

for at least one of the one or more processes, displaying a time bar extending from a start point along the time axis to an end point along the time axis; and

controlling one of the start point and the end point of the time bar with the pointing device, whereby shut down of the at least one process is controlled according to the times of the start point and the end point of the time bar.