USER-PERSONALIZED WAKE POLICY BASED ON LEARNED USER BEHAVIOR

• US 20150205335A1
• Filed: 01/21/2014
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Teshome, Abeye, Cox, Claude Lano, Vichare, Nikhil Manohar
• Granted Patent: US 9,753,517 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality

Abstract

Methods and systems for implementing a user-personalized wake policy may enable learning of actual user behavior over daily, weekly, and/or monthly time scales. Based on actual usage patterns of a user of an information handling system, the user-personalized wake policy may automatically wake the information handling system in advance of when the user is predicted to desire to use the information handling system. Other actions, such as network data updates, may be automatically performed by the user-personalized wake policy in advance of the user-personalized wake times.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

recording, for a user during a first duration, first usage parameters indicating first periods of usage activity and second periods of inactivity associated with an information handling system;

based at least in part on the first usage parameters for the user recorded during the first duration, generating a wake policy for the information handling system, the wake policy specifying user-personalized wake times for waking the information handling system from a dormant power state; and

executing the wake policy, including waking the information handling system at the user-personalized wake times.

2. The method of claim 1, during the executing of the wake policy, further comprising:

recording, for the first user during a second duration, second usage parameters indicating actual wake times at wake events of the information handling system;

comparing the wake policy to the second usage parameters to determine a frequency of wake events that result from the executing of the wake policy; and

when the frequency of wake events is below a first threshold, continuing with the recording of the first usage parameters.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first duration is at least three weeks long, and wherein the recording of the second usage parameters is repeated at least monthly.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, for an initial time respectively associated with the first periods of usage activity, the first usage parameters include:

a time of day;

a day of week; and

a month of year,

and wherein, for the second periods of inactivity, the first usage parameters respectively include;

a dormant power state duration indicating a duration that the information handling system was in the dormant power state, wherein the dormant power state includes a sleep mode and a power off state.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the wake policy includes specifying the user-personalized wake times using:

a time of day;

a day of week; and

a month of year.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating the wake policy is further based on tuning parameters specified by the user, the tuning parameters including:

a global sleep time representing a minimum value for a dormant power state duration of the information handling system; and

a daily sleep time representing a maximum daily value for a dormant power state duration of the information handling system.

7. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

record, for a user during a first duration, first usage parameters indicating first periods of usage activity and second periods of inactivity associated with an information handling system;

based at least in part on the first usage parameters for the user recorded during the first duration, generate a wake policy for the information handling system, the wake policy specifying user-personalized wake times for waking the information handling system from a dormant power state; and

execute the wake policy, including waking the information handling system at the user-personalized wake times.

8. The article of manufacture of claim 7, while the instructions to execute of the wake policy are executing, further comprising instructions to:

record, for the first user during a second duration, second usage parameters indicating actual wake times at wake events of the information handling system;

compare the wake policy to the second usage parameters to determine a frequency of wake events that result from the executing of the wake policy; and

when the frequency of wake events is below a first threshold, continue with the instructions to record the first usage parameters.

9. The article of manufacture of claim 8, wherein the first duration is at least three weeks long, and wherein the instructions to record the second usage parameters are repeated at least monthly.

10. The article of manufacture of claim 7, wherein, for an initial time respectively associated with the first periods of usage activity, the first usage parameters include:

a time of day;

a day of week; and

a month of year,

and wherein, for the second periods of inactivity, the first usage parameters respectively include;

a dormant power state duration indicating a duration that the information handling system was in the dormant power state, wherein the dormant power state includes a sleep mode and a power off state.

11. The article of manufacture of claim 7, wherein the instructions to generate the wake policy include instructions to specify the user-personalized wake times using:

a time of day;

a day of week; and

a month of year.

12. The article of manufacture of claim 7, wherein the instructions to generate the wake policy are further based on tuning parameters, the tuning parameters including:

a global sleep time representing a minimum value for a dormant power state duration of the information handling system; and

a daily sleep time representing a maximum daily value for a dormant power state duration of the information handling system.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 12, wherein the tuning parameters are specified by the user.

14. An information handling system, comprising:

a processor subsystem having access to a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor subsystem, cause the processor subsystem to;

record, for a user during a first duration, first usage parameters indicating first periods of usage activity and second periods of inactivity associated with the information handling system;

based at least in part on the first usage parameters for the user recorded during the first duration, generate a wake policy for the information handling system, the wake policy specifying user-personalized wake times for waking the information handling system from a dormant power state; and

execute the wake policy, including waking the information handling system at the user-personalized wake times.

15. The information handling system of claim 14, while the instructions to execute of the wake policy are executing, further comprising instructions to:

record, for the first user during a second duration, second usage parameters indicating actual wake times at wake events of the information handling system;

compare the wake policy to the second usage parameters to determine a frequency of wake events that result from the executing of the wake policy; and

when the frequency of wake events is below a first threshold, continue with the instructions to record the first usage parameters.

16. The information handling system of claim 15, wherein the first duration is at least three weeks long, and wherein the instructions to record the second usage parameters are repeated at least monthly.

17. The information handling system of claim 14, wherein, for an initial time respectively associated with the first periods of usage activity, the first usage parameters include:

a time of day;

a day of week; and

a month of year,

and wherein, for the second periods of inactivity, the first usage parameters respectively include;

a dormant power state duration indicating a duration that the information handling system was in the dormant power state, wherein the dormant power state includes a sleep mode and a power off state.

18. The information handling system of claim 14, wherein the instructions to generate the wake policy include instructions to specify the user-personalized wake times using:

a time of day;

a day of week; and

a month of year.

19. The information handling system of claim 14, wherein the instructions to generate the wake policy are further based on tuning parameters, the tuning parameters including:

a global sleep time representing a minimum value for a dormant power state duration of the information handling system; and

a daily sleep time representing a maximum daily value for a dormant power state duration of the information handling system.

20. The information handling system of claim 19, wherein the tuning parameters are specified by the user.