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US 10,955,886 · App. 15/153,583 · Granted Mar 23, 2021

Systems and methods for graceful termination of applications in response to power event

Inventors: Dinesh Kunnathur Ragupathi (Round Rock, TX); Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni (Round Rock, TX); Balaji Bapu Gururaja Rao (Austin, TX); Elie Antoun Jreij (Pflugerville, TX); Pushkala Iyer (Round Rock, TX)
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,955,886
App. No.
15/153,583
Filed
May 12, 2016
Granted
Mar 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Examiner
CAO, DIEM K
Art Unit
2196
USPC
718/103
Abstract

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a power supply unit for supplying electrical energy to information handling resources of the information handling system, a battery backup unit for supplying electrical energy to the information handling resources responsive to a power event associated with the power supply unit, and a non-transitory computer-readable readable medium having embodied thereon a program of instructions configured to, when executed, in response to the power event, gracefully terminate one or more applications executing on the processor in accordance with a desired priority ranking.

Claims (26)

1. An information handling system comprising:

a processor;

a power supply unit for supplying electrical energy to information handling resources of the information handling system;

a battery backup unit for supplying electrical energy to the information handling resources responsive to a power event associated with the power supply unit; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program of instructions configured to, when executed, determine an occurrence of the power event, terminate one or more applications executing on the processor in accordance with a desired priority ranking associated with each application that prevents forced termination of the one or more applications, wherein a management controller is further configured to display an indication to a user of a default listing of which applications set forth in the desired priority ranking can be gracefully terminated within an available energy storage capacity of the battery backup unit in response to the power event and to receive an indication from the user to modify the default listing, wherein the management controller is configured to provide out of band management facilities and is communicatively coupled to the power supply unit and the processor and wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises a partition attached to the management controller.

2. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the program of instructions is executed by the processor.

3. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the management controller further comprises an out of band network interface and is configured to interface with a user of the information handling system to allow the user to set the desired priority ranking.

4. The information handling system of claim 3 , wherein the management controller is further configured to communicate to the program of instructions the desired priority ranking only for applications that are in operation.

5. The information handling system of claim 3 , wherein the management controller coupled to the power supply unit and the processor is further configured to cause reduction in power consumption of one or more of the information handling resources responsive to the power event.

6. The information handling system of claim 1 , wherein the management controller is further configured to determine for each of one or more applications that are presently operating an energy required for such application to be gracefully terminated.

7. An information handling system comprising:

a processor;

a power supply unit for supplying electrical energy to information handling resources of the information handling system;

a battery backup unit for supplying electrical energy to the information handling resources responsive to a power event associated with the power supply unit; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program of instructions configured to, when executed, determine an occurrence of the power event, terminate one or more applications executing on the processor in accordance with a desired priority ranking associated with each application that prevents forced termination of the one or more applications, wherein a management controller is further configured to display an indication to a user of a default listing of which applications set forth in the desired priority ranking can be gracefully terminated within an available energy storage capacity of the battery backup unit in response to the power event and to receive an indication from the user to modify the default listing, wherein the management controller is configured to provide out of band management facilities and is communicatively coupled to the power supply unit and the processor and wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises a partition attached to the management controller, wherein the program of instructions is executed by the processor and the management controller further comprises an out of band network interface and is configured to interface with a user of the information handling system to allow the user to set the desired priority ranking.

8. The information handling system of claim 7 , wherein the management controller is further configured to determine for each of one or more applications that are presently operating an energy required for such application to be gracefully terminated.

9. The information handling system of claim 7 , wherein the management controller is further configured to communicate to the program of instructions the desired priority ranking only for applications that are in operation.

10. The information handling system of claim 7 , wherein the management controller coupled to the power supply unit and the processor is further configured to cause reduction in power consumption of one or more of the information handling resources responsive to the power event.

11. An information handling system comprising:

a processor;

a power supply unit for supplying electrical energy to information handling resources of the information handling system;

a battery backup unit for supplying electrical energy to the information handling resources responsive to a power event associated with the power supply unit; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program of instructions configured to, when executed, determine an occurrence of the power event, terminate one or more applications executing on the processor in accordance with a desired priority ranking associated with each application that prevents forced termination of the one or more applications, wherein a management controller is further configured to display an indication to a user of a default listing of which applications set forth in the desired priority ranking can be gracefully terminated within an available energy storage capacity of the battery backup unit in response to the power event and to receive an indication from the user to modify the default listing, wherein the management controller is configured to provide out of band management facilities and is communicatively coupled to the power supply unit and the processor and wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises a partition attached to the management controller, wherein the program of instructions is executed by the processor and the management controller is further configured to determine for each of one or more applications that are presently operating an energy required for such application to be gracefully terminated.

12. The information handling system of claim 11 , wherein the management controller further comprises an out of band network interface and is configured to interface with a user of the information handling system to allow the user to set the desired priority ranking.

13. The information handling system of claim 12 , wherein the management controller is further configured to communicate to the program of instructions the desired priority ranking only for applications that are in operation.

14. The information handling system of claim 12 , wherein the management controller coupled to the power supply unit and the processor is further configured to cause reduction in power consumption of one or more of the information handling resources responsive to the power event.

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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2016
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