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Decentralized Sleep Management

  • US 20120117404A1
  • Filed: 11/05/2010
  • Published: 05/10/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computing device residing within a subnet that includes multiple other computing devices, the computing device comprising:

  • one or more processors; and

    one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

    receiving a local state of each of the multiple other computing devices that reside within the subnet;

    maintaining a global state of the subnet with use of the received local states;

    identifying, from the global state, a computing device of the subnet to probe;

    probing the identified computing device to determine whether the identified computing device is asleep and unmanaged; and

    managing the identified computing device at least partly in response to determining that that the identified computing device is asleep and unmanaged.

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