Computer with Built-in Wireless Module and Standby and Activate Method Thereof

• US 20110307727A1
• Filed: 03/30/2009
• Published: 12/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wei Wu
• Original Assignee: Wei Wu
• Inventors: Wu, Wei
• Application Number:
  US13/202,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307727A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/323
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3209 Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for activating a computer with a built-in wireless module includes the following steps: launching the activation of the computer; sending signal of requiring activation of the computer by the wireless module; and detecting, analyzing and determining the signal of requiring activation of the computer by a control circuit, sending control signal of activating the computer to the computer by the control circuit and as a response to said control signal, the computer is activated. The computer can supply electrical power to the wireless module without interruption in case that the computer gets into standby, sleep or shutdown mode. When there is incoming voice signal or data signal (for instance, short message or MMS), the voice signal or data signal may be detected, analyzed, and determined and once activation signal is found, the computer will wake up in a short time and normal hardware and software environment will resume.

Claims

1. A method for activating a computer with a built-in wireless module, comprising the following steps:

launching activation of the computer;

sending signal of requiring activation of the computer by the wireless module; and

detecting, analyzing and determining the signal of requiring activation of the computer by a control circuit, sending control signal of activating the computer to the computer by the control circuit and as a response to said control signal, the computer is activated.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of launching the activation of the computer comprises sending a call signal by a mobile base station to the wireless module to launch the activation of the computer when voice or data is incoming

3. A method for switching the computer having a built-in wireless module into standby mode, comprising the following steps:

launching standby of the computer;

severing control of the wireless module by a computer system after detection of the standby signal by a control circuit, and supplying power to the wireless module by a battery of the computer directly and independently such that the wireless module is keeping on working and the computer gets into standby mode.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the launching standby of the computer comprises launching manually or automatically.

5. A computer with a built-in wireless module, comprising a control circuit by which the wireless module is connected to a computer battery;

the control circuit includes a power supply management unit for controlling the computer such that the computer battery will directly supply power to the wireless module to keep on its working status when the computer comes into standby, sleep or shutdown mode;

the wireless module includes an activation processing unit for sending a signal of requiring activation of the computer when voice or data service is incoming; and

the control circuit further includes a wake-up processing unit for detecting, analyzing and determining the signal of requiring computer activation and then sending control signal of activating the computer to the computer.

6. The computer according to claim 5, wherein the control circuit is fully or partially integrated into the wireless module;

or the control circuit is a stand-alone component, and fully or partially installed onto a computer main board.

7. The computer according to claim 5, wherein the wireless module comprises universal mobile telecommunication/CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, and wide area network;

the interface of the wireless module comprises mini peripheral component interconnection standard PCI E, USB, board to board interface, SD card interface SDIO, peripheral component interconnection standard PCI, portable compact flash memory or flex cable;

or the wireless module is directly integrated into the main board of the computer, and connected to the computer through standard or non-standard interface and by cable or wireless manner.

8. The computer according to claim 5, wherein the computer comprises those of full series CPU under Intel X86 architecture, full series CPU under AMD X86architecture, full series CPU under VIA X86 architecture and other computers under other X86 architecture.

9. The computer according to claim 5, wherein the operating system of the computer comprises all types of operating systems of Windows, Linux, UNIX and MAC.