Adjustment of sleep timeouts in printers

• US 20070223028A1
• Filed: 03/23/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Infoprint Solutions Company LLC (Ricoh Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Infoprint Solutions Company LLC (Ricoh Company Limited)
• Inventors: Grams, Jason, Boyes, J.
• Application Number:
  US11/388,501
• Publication Number:
  US 20070223028A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.140
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/205 specially for the mode of operation, e.g. standby, warming-up, error G03G15/2046 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5004 Power supply control, e.g. power-saving mode, automatic power turn-off
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3215 Monitoring of peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3228 Monitoring task completion, e.g. by use of idle timers, stop commands or wait commands
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3284 Power saving in printer
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein printer usage corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day is determined for a plurality of days. Sleep timeout periods corresponding to the plurality of time periods of the day are set based on the determined printer usage.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining printer usage corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day for a plurality of days; and

setting sleep timeout periods corresponding to the plurality of time periods of the day based on the determined printer usage.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a first sleep timeout period is set for a first time period of the day, wherein a second sleep timeout period is set for a second time period of the day, and wherein the first sleep timeout period is more than the second sleep timeout period if the printer usage during the first time period of the day is more than the printer usage during the second time period of the day.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining for a time period whether an average time interval between print jobs is less than a predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time; and

setting a sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to equal a maximum timeout period, in response to determining the average time interval between the print jobs is less than the predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time;

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

computing the sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to be a predetermined multiple of the average time interval between print jobs, in response to determining that the average time interval between the print jobs is not less than the predetermined multiple of the printer wakeup time.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the computed sleep timeout period if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than or equal to a minimum timeout period and the computed sleep timeout period is less than or equal to the maximum timeout period;

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the minimum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is less than the minimum timeout period; and

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the maximum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than the maximum timeout period.

6. A system, comprising:

memory; and

processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes;

determining printer usage corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day for a plurality of days; and

setting sleep timeout periods corresponding to the plurality of time periods of the day based on the determined printer usage.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein a first sleep timeout period is set for a first time period of the day, wherein a second sleep timeout period is set for a second time period of the day, and wherein the first sleep timeout period is more than the second sleep timeout period if the printer usage during the first time period of the day is more than the printer usage during the second time period of the day.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the processor further executes:

determining for a time period whether an average time interval between print jobs is less than a predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time; and

setting a sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to equal a maximum timeout period, in response to determining the average time interval between the print jobs is less than the predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time;

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor further executes:

computing the sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to be a predetermined multiple of the average time interval between print jobs, in response to determining that the average time interval between the print jobs is not less than the predetermined multiple of the printer wakeup time.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor further executes:

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the computed sleep timeout period if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than or equal to a minimum timeout period and the computed sleep timeout period is less than or equal to the maximum timeout period;

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setting the sleep timeout period to equal the minimum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is less than the minimum timeout period; and

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the maximum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than the maximum timeout period.

11. An article of manufacture for controlling a printer, wherein the article of manufacture is capable of causing operations, the operations comprising:

determining printer usage corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day for a plurality of days; and

setting sleep timeout periods corresponding to the plurality of time periods of the day based on the determined printer usage.

12. The article of manufacture of claim 11, wherein a first sleep timeout period is set for a first time period of the day, wherein a second sleep timeout period is set for a second time period of the day, and wherein the first sleep timeout period is more than the second sleep timeout period if the printer usage during the first time period of the day is more than the printer usage during the second time period of the day.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 11, the operations further comprising:

determining for a time period whether an average time interval between print jobs is less than a predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time; and

setting a sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to equal a maximum timeout period, in response to determining the average time interval between the print jobs is less than the predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time;

14. The article of manufacture of claim 13, the operations further comprising:

computing the sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to be a predetermined multiple of the average time interval between print jobs, in response to determining that the average time interval between the print jobs is not less than the predetermined multiple of the printer wakeup time.

15. The article of manufacture of claim 14, the operations further comprising:

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the computed sleep timeout period if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than or equal to a minimum timeout period and the computed sleep timeout period is less than or equal to the maximum timeout period;

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the minimum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is less than the minimum timeout period; and

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the maximum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than the maximum timeout period.

16. A method for deploying computing infrastructure, comprising integrating computer-readable code into a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system is capable of performing:

determining printer usage corresponding to a plurality of time periods of a day for a plurality of days; and

setting sleep timeout periods corresponding to the plurality of time periods of the day based on the determined printer usage.

17. The method for deploying computing infrastructure of claim 16, wherein a first sleep timeout period is set for a first time period of the day, wherein a second sleep timeout period is set for a second time period of the day, and wherein the first sleep timeout period is more than the second sleep timeout period if the printer usage during the first time period of the day is more than the printer usage during the second time period of the day.

18. The method for deploying computing infrastructure of claim 16, further comprising:

determining for a time period whether an average time interval between print jobs is less than a predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time; and

setting a sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to equal a maximum timeout period, in response to determining the average time interval between the print jobs is less than the predetermined multiple of a printer wakeup time;

19. The method for deploying computing infrastructure of claim 18, further comprising:

computing the sleep timeout period corresponding to the time period to be a predetermined multiple of the average time interval between print jobs, in response to determining that the average time interval between the print jobs is not less than the predetermined multiple of the printer wakeup time.

20. The method for deploying computing infrastructure of claim 19, further comprising:

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the computed sleep timeout period if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than or equal to a minimum timeout period and the computed sleep timeout period is less than or equal to the maximum timeout period;

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the minimum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is less than the minimum timeout period; and

setting the sleep timeout period to equal the maximum timeout period, if the computed sleep timeout period is greater than the maximum timeout period.