Information processing apparatus and wireless communication module setting method
View Patent ↗According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a wireless communication module including an event notifier, an embedded controller and a setting module. The embedded controller registers event information configured to indicate that supply of electrical power to the wireless communication module was cut in a register and turns on the apparatus, when the embedded controller is started or reset. The setting module sets the wireless communication module to enable the event notifier, if the event information is registered in the register of the embedded controller when the apparatus is turned on.
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a wireless communicator comprising an event notifier to output an event signal to notify reception of a message when the message is received, the wireless communicator being capable of maintaining a setting for enabling the event notifier while electrical power is supplied;
an embedded controller to control supply of electrical power to components in the apparatus comprising the wireless communicator, wherein the embedded controller registers event information in a register and turns on the apparatus when the embedded controller is started after supply of electrical power to the wireless communicator was cut, or reset to cause cutting of supply of electrical power to the wireless communicator, the event information indicating that supply of electrical power to the wireless communicator was cut; and
a setting controller to set the wireless communicator to enable the event notifier, when the apparatus is turned on and the event information is registered in the register of the embedded controller.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the setting controller sets the embedded controller to always continue supplying electrical power to the wireless, communicator when the apparatus is turned on and if the event information is registered in the register of the embedded controller.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the setting controller instructs the embedded controller to turn off the apparatus after the setting controller sets the wireless communicator and the embedded controller.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the wireless communicator comprises a 3G module which performs wireless communication with a base station that takes a mobile station in a wireless public communication line, by a method compliant with IMT-2000.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the wireless communicator outputs the event information when a Short Message Service (SMS) mail is received in a state where the event notifier is enabled.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the setting controller comprises one of modules of a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS).
7. A setting method for an information processing apparatus comprising a wireless communicator comprising an event notifier to output an event signal to notify reception of a message when the message is received, the method comprising:
registering event information in a register of an embedded controller and turning on the apparatus when the embedded controller is started after supply of electrical power to the wireless communicator was cut, or reset to cause cutting of supply of electrical power to the wireless communicator, the event information indicating that supply of electrical power to the wireless communicator was cut, the embedded controller controlling supply of electrical power to components in the apparatus comprising the wireless communicator; and
setting the wireless communicator to enable the event notifier when the apparatus is turned on and if the event information is registered in the register of the embedded controller.
8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
setting the embedded controller to always continue supplying electrical power to the wireless communicator when the apparatus is turned on and if the event information is registered in the register of the embedded controller.