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8271809 On-chip power proxy based architecture  
Illustrative embodiments estimate power consumption within a multi-core microprocessor chip. An authorized user selects a set of activities to be monitored. A value for each activity of the set of...
8269998 Image forming device, image forming method, printer driver program, and image forming system  
The image forming device of this invention includes a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit determines whether or not data for printing which has been inputted while the power save mode...
8271632 Remote access providing computer system and method for managing same  
A computer system for providing a remote access service includes a unit for acquiring information on a relation between a terminal and a user using the terminal, a unit for acquiring network...
8271811 Methods and apparatus for load-based power management of PHY logic circuits of a SAS device based upon a current workload  
Apparatus and method for managing power consumption of circuits within a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) device. A SAS device having a plurality of PHY logic circuits includes a queue manager and a...
8271806 Method, system and device for communication based power sharing  
We describe an example system and method of power sharing that includes communicating a power status of each of a plurality of devices on a network to a rest of the plurality of devices connected...
8271813 System and method for managing energy consumption in a compute environment  
A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are disclosed for managing workload in a data center. The method includes receiving, at a workload manager, energy consumption...
8271810 Method and apparatus for dynamically detecting environmental conditions and adjusting drive strength in response to the detecting  
Disclosed is a dynamic detector to detect an environmental condition including a power-supply level relative to a predetermined threshold signal during a training phase; and an adjustable buffer,...
8271807 System and method for managing energy consumption in a compute environment  
A system, method and computer readable medium are disclosed for reducing power consumption in clusters, grids, on-demand centers, and so forth. The principles disclosed herein can reduce both...
8271819 Methods and systems for initiating power to an information handling system  
An information handling system (IHS) is disclosed providing a power supply operable to provide an output current to the IHS during power initiation. The IHS may also include a first power component...
8271815 Device for controlling power to a plurality of peripherals based on the state of a host computer  
This invention relates to a standby power control device, which is able to apply in controlling the ON/OFF state of the power of a computer and a plurality of peripheral devices, which comprises: a...
8271812 Hardware automatic performance state transitions in system on processor sleep and wake events  
In an embodiment, a power management unit (PMU) may automatically transition (in hardware) the performance states of one or more performance domains in a system. The target performance states to...
8268467 Battery safety features  
The invention broadly provides improved safety features for batteries utilized in electronic devices. The invention provides an improved CID design that allows for more reliable disconnection...
8266463 Negotiating power between power sourcing equipment and powerable devices  
The present invention provides a power negotiation protocol that enables PDs and PSEs to negotiate the amount of inline power that a PD consumes and the corresponding PSE provides. This power...
8266465 System for conserving battery life in a battery operated device  
A battery operated device includes a receiver for receiving a transmission that includes a postamble. A sensor, in a tire, measures a parameter of the tire and outputs data indicative of the...
8266334 Data writing method for non-volatile memory, and controller and storage system using the same  
A data writing method for writing data from a host system into a plurality of memory dies of a rewritable non-volatile memory storage apparatus is provided. The data writing method includes...
8266459 Supplying voltage to digital subcircuits  
Circuit, method for operating a circuit, and use, having a voltage regulator, which has a regulator output for providing a supply voltage, which for the supply can be connected to at least one...
8266462 Image forming apparatus including a boosting-step-down transformer and power control method  
A fixing unit fixes a toner image transferred onto a recording medium to the recording medium by heating and pressurizing the toner image. An auxiliary power supply unit includes a charging element...
8266458 Estimating power consumption of a virtual server  
Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for estimating the power consumption of virtual servers that operate in various hardware configurations and making a charge. The system...
8264995 Apparatus and method for adjusting a duty cycle to save power in a computing system  
A method and system for adjusting a duty cycle to save power in a computing system is described. The system includes a network interface card (NIC) that has an active mode and a sleep mode. The NIC...
8266456 Supplying remaining available current to port in excess of bus standard limit  
Methods and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the amount of power (or current) distributed to one or more connected devices via electrical interfaces. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a...
8266460 Layer 2 power classification support for power-over-ethernet personal computing devices  
A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) communication system dynamically provides power and data communications over a communications link. In an enterprise environment made up of one or more personal...
8266457 Data processing device and method for switching states thereof  
The present invention provides a data processing device and a method for switching states thereof. The data processing device comprises an operating system and a communication interface for...
8266455 Apparatus and method for controlling power of fixing unit  
An apparatus and method for controlling power of a fixing unit is provided. The apparatus includes a power supply unit supplying DC power to the fixing unit, and a power controller controlling the...
8266348 System and method of communicating with portable devices  
At least one aspect of the invention is directed to a communications adapter for coupling between a power adapter and a laptop computer. The communications adapter includes a first connector...
8266461 Computer system with a fan and a temperature monitoring unit  
A computer system includes a processor and a fan operative to provide cooling airflow for reducing a temperature of the processor, the fan having a temperature threshold corresponding to operation...
8261114 System and method for dynamic energy efficient ethernet control policy based on user or device profiles and usage parameters  
A system and method for dynamic energy efficient Ethernet (EEE) control policy based on user or device profiles and usage parameters. The analysis by an EEE control policy can consider user or...
8258748 Methods and apparatus for modeling, monitoring, simulating and controlling power consumption in battery-operated devices  
A computer-based processing system (e.g., host server) is operable for receiving historical device operation information (power consumption data) collected during operation of the remote...
8261104 System and method of classification in power over ethernet systems  
A method is disclosed that includes receiving a classification voltage at a powered device from a network. The classification voltage includes a baseline voltage level that is below an operating...
8261111 Device having a normal working state and a standby state and computer readable storage medium for controlling same  
There is provided a terminal automatically executing access processing to a URL registered in advance on a network in response to the cancellation operation of the power saving mode. This enables...
8261108 Information handling system including wireless scanning feature  
An information handling system (IHS) is provided which includes a system processor and a wireless section coupled to the system processor. While the system processor remains in a reduced power...
8261102 Power management system capable of saving power and optimizing operating efficiency of power supplies for providing power with back-up or redundancy to plural loads  
The present invention relates to a power management system comprising at least one power management subsystem. Each power management subsystem comprises a first power module coupled to a first load...
8261105 Switching power circuit and computer system  
The invention relates to a switching power circuit connected to a motherboard of a computer system. The switching power circuit includes a PWM circuit and a snubber circuit. The PWM circuit...
8261115 Sub-processor configured to execute a specific program stored in the first memory or second memory on behalf of the main processor  
A processing device may comprise a first controlling unit, a second controlling unit, a first memory and a second memory. The second memory may be set to a normal operation mode in a case where the...
8261112 Optimizing power consumption by tracking how program runtime performance metrics respond to changes in operating frequency  
A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing power consumption of an executing processor executing. The method includes determining a first sensitivity relationship (SR) based on a...
8261117 Virtualization in a multi-core processor (MCP)  
This invention describes an apparatus, computer architecture, method, operating system, compiler, and application program products for MPEs as well as virtualization in a symmetric MCP. The...
8261100 Power adapter capable of communicating digitally with electronic devices using packet-based protocol  
A power adapter capable of communicating digitally with a device or a legacy adapter associated with a device is described. The power adapter includes an input port to receive power from a power...
8261001 Network range extender device  
An apparatus includes a PHY assembly in electrical communication with a first interface assembly and with a second interface assembly, the PHY assembly configured to receive a power signal from a...
8261285 Processor packing in an SMP server to conserve energy  
A data processing system includes a power supply, a plurality of processors wherein each processor is separately powerable by the power supply under operating system control. The operating system...
8260373 Mobile terminal with variable display control  
A mobile terminal with display control is disclosed. A method of controlling a display screen in the mobile terminal includes recognizing an operation mode of the mobile terminal, wherein the...
8261116 Distribution of network communications based on server power consumption  
A network device is described that load-balances network traffic among a set of network servers based on electrical power consumption of the network servers. The network device may measure...
8261109 Power sharing between portable computer system and peripheral devices  
A peripheral device and a method for operating a peripheral device is disclosed. The peripheral device includes one or more connection mechanisms for coupling to a computing device, a power supply,...
8261107 Printing device controller and printing device  
A printing device controller provided with a first computational processing unit that performs overall control of the device as a whole and a second computational processing unit that consumes less...
8261101 Self power down integrated circuit  
A suspend mode is provided that can be asserted using an Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP) of an integrated circuit such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), as supposed to a...
8261103 Systems and methods for controlling power delivery to system components  
Systems and methods for controlling power delivery to system components are disclosed. A Centralized Integrated Power Management Controller is disclosed which includes a controller and a power...
8261106 System for controlling power of a portable electronic device using lock code  
A portable electronic device includes a main power supply, a power management unit (PMU) connected to the main power supply, and a receiver unit connected to the PMU. The main power supply supplies...
8255707 System and method for providing a one-step testing architecture  
In one embodiment, a method includes powering on a testing system, whereby a unit present signal is included in the system, the unit present signal communicating to a management complex unit (MCU)...
8255728 System comprising a plurality of power supply circuits each with a different turn-on delay for providing a plurality of voltages to a respective peripheral device interface  
A computer motherboard includes a number of peripheral device interfaces, first and second voltage output terminals, and a number of power supply circuits corresponding to the S peripheral device...
8255713 Management of link states using plateform and device latencies  
A method, apparatus, and system for coordinated link power management. Some embodiments of a method include receiving an exit latency for each of a group of link states for a link, with a device...
8255731 Methods and apparatus for power state based backup  
Methods and apparatus that receive, at a wireless device, power through wire or inductive pad are described. The received power is monitored to back up data from the device to a server in a network...
8255709 Power budgeting for a group of computer systems using utilization feedback for manageable components  
Power consumption of a group of computer systems is managed based on a maximum power consumption for the group. A power budget is determined from the power consumption of each computer system and...