System and Method for Transferring an Active State Between a Powerful Processor and a Less Powerful Processor

摘要

An information handling system includes a tablet with a processor, and a dock with a second processor that determines that the tablet is coupled to the dock, boots the dock, receives a request for the tablet to be uncoupled from the dock, creates a migration image with state information of the dock and that identifies a process running on the dock, and sends the migration image to the tablet. The first processor receives the request, boots the tablet, receives the migration image from the second processor, loads the state information to the tablet, and launches the first process.

主权项

1. An information handling system, comprising:
a tablet processing system including a first processor; and a dock processing system including a second processor operable to:
determine that the tablet processing system is coupled to the dock processing system;boot the dock processing system in response to determining that the tablet processing system is coupled to the dock processing system;receive a request for the tablet processing system to be uncoupled from the dock processing system;create a migration image in response to receiving the request, wherein the migration image comprises state information of the dock processing system and identifies a first process running on the dock processing system; andsend the migration image to the tablet processing system; wherein the first processor is operable to:
receive the request;boot the tablet processing system in response to receiving the request;receive the migration image from the second processor;load the state information to the tablet processing system; andlaunch the first process.