Microsoft Patents Automatic OS Shutdown

[atikkur]

click shutdown --> force all to end --> saves any unsaved document temporarily on disk without user intervention --> OFF.

shutdown means going guaranted off without hassle.

 

[roshith_k]

Well, If apple can file a patent for auto-arranging icons on the home screen, something even win98 had, then this is totally justified.

 

[Guest]

I think there's a flaw in the flow.

Follow this path:
210 -> 220 -> 230 -> 235 -> 250 -> 260 -> 270 -> 280 -> 290.

Suppose an application triggers the 'VETO' and is visible Top Level in Windows. The Blocked Application UI is displayed and user selects 'Shut Down'. This effectively bypasses normal termination of all other GUI applications, as rigorous termination of *all* remaining running application is executed (280) (no more VETO, BLOCK or ACCEPT possible).

The 'Shut Down' flow from 270 should have connected to 240, if you ask me.

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]jsc[/nom]For a truly mind boggling flowchart, check out the U.S. government one for Healthcare Reform, otherwise known as "Obamacare":http://www.house.gov/brady/pdf/Obamacare_Chart.pdfBack to the automatic OS shutdown:I didn't know you could patent prior art. There have been desktop shutdown applets for years.[/citation]
I was going to post that myself before I saw you already did..

 

[marraco]

Any poweroff linux scrip can destroy that patent.

 

[Guest]

How can you get patent on this? This already works in Linux and Unix and has done since there was X Windows System. This proves once for all that patents are just a system setuyp by idiots who don't know a shit.

 

[Shin-san]

I feel software patents are iffy. I see a few in video games. One was where during loading, there was a minigame. Another is the floating arrow in Crazy Taxi. A third is the Active Time Battle in Final Fantasy.

So, it may get really easy to use a software patent without knowing it.

 

[Shin-san]

Oh yeah. The prolonged shutdown wasn't bad, but it's awful when you need to do a simple reboot.

 

[thespin]

In Windows XP, all versions, you can speed up and FORCE shutdown if you know how to make Registry changes. I would imagine the same registry changes are effective in Vista or Windows 7.

To automatically end, terminate and kill user processes or tasks on shutdown or logoff:

Navigate to this registry branch -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

By changing to the value of registry key -
AutoEndTasks to 1, Windows will end all processes that timeout when shut down or log out from Windows automatically, without asking for user input or interaction.

Reduce the wait time for services to be killed:

Navigate to the following registry branch -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control

On the right pane, double click on 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout’ or right click on it and choose modify. Change the default value of WaitToKillServiceTimeout of 20000 to lesser value, such as 5000 or even 1000, depending on your preference.

Reduce the wait time for user processes and applications to be killed:

Navigate to the following registry branch -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

On the right pane, double click on WaitToKillAppTimeout (or right click on the registry key and select Modify), and enter a new value which is less than the default value of 20000. The value can be 1000 or 5000 or any other numeric value, depending on your preference.

On the right pane also, double click on HungAppTimeout (or right click on the registry key and select Modify) and change the value to less numerical value than 5000 (default value),

Then navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\ registry branch, and do the same as above to change and modify the value of WaitToKillAppTimeout and HungAppTimeout

Disabling cleaning the pagefile is done in the registry:

Change the DWORD value ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0 at registry branch -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\ Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

 

[Guest]

It's just like I press the reset button!
This does not need a patent!
And it's dangerous when you have unsaved documents opened too.

The idea of an os that would just shut down regardless of running processes has been out for many years already.
I do not think MS should patent this idea!

The only problem why it for now hasn't been applied is that the system doesn't know at boot whether it shut down correctly, or due to a power failure.
I guess MS addressed that, so it could cut shutdown time to a mere second!
Or perhaps they create a hibernation file while busy, so the system don't has to do it at shutdown, further reducing OS shutdown time (if that be the case, that would mean more background activity, and less performance, which would not be very popular with most users).
If they could only find a way to boot a system in mere seconds, they'd be much more appraised for that, and users wouldn't mind as much when MS patents this..

But patenting a fast shutdown, is like patenting a ball, or pen. Just because noone patented it, does not mean they should do so!

 

[raybob95]

It's a nice idea but it seems awfully minor to go fetch a patent for it . . . It really looks the same as what they're doing now, and I don't see how it would be so much faster.

 

[djmpsf]

Hmm that's funny, I thought they already had the patent for this.....it was called the BlueScreenOfDeath I think.

 

[aaron686]

For those who seek a BEAST chart look no further...

http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/afghanistan-1300.jpg

 

[idoln95]

Come on, You just can't give anyone a patent for a simple flowchart like that...

Simply it like:
shutdown->kill all non gui application->kill all gui applications->shutdown.

:S

 

[theoutbound]

I don't see this patent as a really big deal specifically. We have known about ridiculous software patents for a long time now. Unless Microsoft actually starts filing lawsuits against people for patent infringement, I really don't care. I do wonder how many trees we kill for this garbage though.

 

[dEAne]

It should not be for microsoft, what about the simple flaw of not shutting down due to OS error - exclude the virus.

 

[Guest]

Flawed to the max! I think if we go back to Xerox PARC they must have had a lot of this in there - of course, that's only 25 years old....

 

[ksampanna]

Wow, this groundbreaking technology is going to change the world.

 

[loizoskounios]

I had no idea computers running Windows could shut down. Good for you Microsoft.

 

[mouettus]

I miss the ol' Win98 SE days...

Start -- Shutdown
CLICK-BOOM!

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]jsc[/nom]For a truly mind boggling flowchart, check out the U.S. government one for Healthcare Reform, otherwise known as "Obamacare":http://www.house.gov/brady/pdf/Obamacare_Chart.pdf[/citation]
lmfao!!

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]TheRabidDeer[/nom]Isnt windows 7 already using this patent? So whats with all this discussion about people not sure if they want this implemented or other talk?...[/citation]
Man you don't read well! Windows 7 has it but the article says that the patent was filed in 2005...I'm not reading anywhere where people are saying that they are not sure if they want this implemented.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]danieth[/nom]I don't see why this patent is important, because it is only for Windows, and Microsoft is the only company producing Windows. If i have to purchase this as an extra to Windows from Microsoft then it should not have been exclusive to them. Otherwise, I am glad it is included in future Windows (I am assuming) so i don't have to install freeware or pay to do the same thing.I don't think the patent covers Leopard or Linux because the 6th line down on the patent specifically refers to windows. I think what i have said justifies the patent going to Microsoft.[/citation]
I know, many comments on the nature of such a shutdown procedure by M$ and its already state of existance...but yet I don't see how it applies to anything other than Windows...at least that is how I'm reading this patent as well...

 

[raybob95]

I'm going to patent throwing an axe at it when I click shut down and it goes to a BSOD.

 

[Guest]

I think I will go and patent the way I have a dump.
Seems patents are getting more toilet trained.
Just like this stupid patent example here.