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7340624 Clock control system and clock control method  
This invention relates to a clock control system including a CPU, a peripheral functional block for the CPU, a frequency multiplication circuit which multiplies the frequency of an input system...
7337335 Method and apparatus for on-demand power management  
A method for on-demand power management monitors a processing demand in a processing system operating at a first set of voltages and frequencies and generates a second set of voltages and...
7337338 Information handling system capable of operation in reduced power states  
A method and system for allowing a processor to enter low power states in an information handling system (IHS) include detecting an access request for a bus mastering device. The method and system...
7337340 System and method of compensating for the effects of on-chip processing variation on an integrated circuit  
A system and method of compensating for effects of on-chip processing variation on an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit is divided into a set of regions. Then, a region control logic,...
7337258 Dynamically allocating devices to buses  
Devices are assigned to different buses at development time as well as dynamically during operation, based on actual performance. At development time, bus assignment can be determined based on...
7337339 Multi-level power monitoring, filtering and throttling at local blocks and globally  
Power management for a multi-processor chip includes a centralized global power manager that monitors global power for the whole chip, and local power managers. Local power managers manage power...
7336485 Heat sink detection  
In one embodiment, a printed circuit board assembly comprises a heat sink having an electrically conductive mounting support and a printed circuit board including detection circuitry to detect an...
7337337 Apparatus and method of reducing power consumption using power-save polling list  
An apparatus and method of reducing power consumption in a station on a wireless LAN is provided. Included is a cumulative lead time frame receiver, a self lead time frame production transmission...
7334082 Method and system to change a power state of a hard drive  
A method and system to detect an occurrence of a predetermined event within the system, and change a power state of a hard drive (HD) in response to the event, are described. In one embodiment, in...
7334140 Apparatus and method to selectively provide power to one or more components disposed in an information storage and retrieval system  
A method is disclosed to selectively provide power to a component disposed in an information storage and retrieval system. Applicants' method supplies a controller comprising a control portion in...
7334144 Host-based power savings method and apparatus  
A system which includes a disk drive or other storage device coupled to a host system provides for reduction of the amount or rate of drive power consumption using procedures which are at least...
7334143 Computer power conservation apparatus and method that enables less speculative execution during light processor load based on a branch confidence threshold value  
A computer measures a processor load and configures itself so that a lesser amount of speculative execution is enabled when the processor is lightly loaded than is enabled when the processor is...
7334141 Method of saving energy in an information handling system by controlling a main converter based on the amount of power drawn by the system  
An information handling system having an energy saving power converter that comprises a main converter for supplying power to the information handling system when in active operation, and an...
7334145 Predictive processor speed governor  
A processor-based system accessing a performance profile for a program executing on a predetermined data set, executing the program on the predetermined data set, and governing processor speed in a...
7334139 Power supply control apparatus, power supply control system, and administration apparatus  
A system performs the power supply control of a plurality of information processing apparatuses at a low cost without relation to the intrinsic function of the information processing apparatus and...
7334146 Method for controlling an image processing apparatus based on a power supply status  
An image processing apparatus which is capable of recovering a normal operation thereof at high speed. A CPU 2001 that controls a printer 108 determines whether or not the printer 108 should...
7334138 Windows-driven power management for peripheral devices in a computer system  
An apparatus for dynamically managing the power consumption of peripheral devices in a computer includes at least one peripheral device, a power management unit, and a memory unit. The power...
7334142 Reducing power consumption in a logically partitioned data processing system with operating system call that indicates a selected processor is unneeded for a period of time  
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of processors. A call from an operating system is received. The call indicates that a selected processor in the set of processors...
7330954 Storing information in one of at least two storage devices based on a storage parameter and an attribute of the storage devices  
Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method to store information is provided, wherein the method includes generating a storage parameter to store information, wherein the...
7330984 Power monitoring circuit having automatic feedback and overload protection  
A power monitoring circuit having an automatic feedback function and an overload protection function is described. The power monitoring circuit has a current detection module, a voltage detection...
7330931 Method and system for accessing auxiliary data in power-efficient high-capacity scalable storage system  
A method for preparing data units for access in a data storage system is disclosed. The data storage system includes multiple storage devices having data units. All the storage devices of the data...
7327002 Industrial control circuit using a single-chip microprocessor  
An industrial control circuit includes: a first isolation circuit ( 22 ) for converting an analog signal to a low level voltage; a single-chip microprocessor SCM ( 23 ) for receiving the low level...
7328049 Pre-resource checking before file download  
The availability of one or more resources consumable in operating a mobile terminal and in downloading a file or collection of files to the terminal is reviewed before the file or collection of...
7327754 Apparatus and method for freezing the states of a receiver during silent line state operation of a network device  
A method for maintaining the states of a receiver during the silent line state of a network device operating in a low power link suspend mode is presented. Accordingly, a method of freezing the...
7328356 Apparatus and method for saving power in a disk drive with a serial ATA interface connected to a host via a serial ATA bus  
In an electronic device with a serial ATA interface, upon detection of the issue or reception of a preset command, a confirmation device, such as a CPU, confirms the completion of execution of the...
7328357 Electronic apparatus with switching power supply controlled to stop main circuit voltage and reduce microcomputer voltage during standby mode  
In a configuration in which supply of a first operating power source to a main circuit part is stopped at the time of shifting to a standby mode, at the time of shifting to the standby mode, a...
7328333 Apparatus, method and program product for selectively starting one of a plurality of operating systems and secondary storage according to whether or not a predetermined peripheral is connected to the system  
A computer system which includes a CPU for performing various processes by program control and storage elements which store at least one operating system and a BIOS, wherein upon starting a system,...
7325733 Electrically disconnecting a peripheral device  
If a USB device is turned off or is not active, the device may be electrically disconnected from a USB host controller. The device may be electrically disconnected through a physical interface on...
7328358 High quality and high performance three-dimensional graphics architecture for portable handheld devices  
A high quality and performance 3D graphics architecture suitable for portable handheld devices is provided. The 3D graphics architecture incorporates a module to classify polygons by size and other...
7325050 System and method for strategic power reduction in a computer system  
A system and method are provided for strategic power reduction in a computer system. The system and method includes a plurality of processing resources that process data. Associated with the...
7325150 Combiner for power delivery over data communication cabling infrastructure  
A system for generating, delivering and distributing electrical power to network elements over a data communication network infrastructure within a building, campus or enterprise. Consolidating...
7325148 Power supply management system in parallel processing system by OS for single processors and power supply management program therefor  
In a parallel processing system by an OS for single processors which operates an OS and an existing application for single processors on a multiprocessor to realize parallel processing by the...
7325100 Apparatus and method for entering and exiting low power mode  
An apparatus for entering and exiting low power mode comprising a processor having a cache; a power management mechanism connected to said processor for controlling a plurality of power management...
7321975 Method for controlling power supply to function modules selectively based on function modules necessary for predetermined program execution in mobile device  
A mobile device having a power control function. The mobile device having the power control function includes a plurality of function modules, a control unit, incorporating a predetermined program...
7321974 Method of providing a simulated off condition in a computing device wherein the device is able to run applications while in an off state  
Systems and methods for producing a simulated off condition in a computing device using a set of software drivers that interact with a system service and the device BIOS. The computing device...
7321214 Motor control system  
A controller is operable in one of a plurality of operational modes, which include an estimated temperature computation performing mode for performing computing of an estimated temperature of the...
7321213 Motor controller  
A motor controller is provided with: an estimated temperature calculating means that calculates an estimated temperature of a motor; and a control unit that can perform a driving control of the...
7321973 System for controlling power to a system part using a control unit and wherein the power to the control unit is controlled using a power controller  
An electronic device includes a system part having a plurality of electronic components; a system power supply outputting a system operating power by transforming electrical power supplied from the...
7320079 Semiconductor integrated circuit device, an electronic apparatus including the device, and a power consumption reduction method  
A semiconductor integrated circuit is disclosed that operates in synch with a clock signal supplied from an external source, and by a voltage supplied by a power supply. The circuit includes a...
7320080 Power management over switching fabrics  
A switching fabric handles transactions using a protocol that directs packets based on path routing information. Components participate in transactions using a protocol that issues packets based on...
7320077 Power supply controlling apparatus of a device connected to a serial bus  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device to control power supply for USB devices coupled to a host through a USB and to control power supply...
7317732 Method and apparatus for handling link suspend pulse and silent line state transitions of a network device  
A method and apparatus for handling data during link suspend pulse and the silent line state of a network device operating in a low power link suspend mode is presented. Accordingly, a new...
7318164 Conserving energy in a data processing system by selectively powering down processors  
One or more processors are activated and deactivated responsive to processing activity in order to meet a performance or response requirement. Hardware facilities or software modules monitor...
7315953 Apparatus and related method of coordinating north bridge and south bridge for processing bus master requests of peripheral devices for controlling a central processing unit to operate in a power-saving state  
A connected indicator wire of open-drained configuration is set between a north bridge and a south bridge. When either the south or north bridge is handling a bus master request, a bus master...
7315989 Method, computer program product, and system for a statistical analysis screensaver  
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for activating a screensaver in a data processing system is provided. A timeout value that defines an idle interval after which a...
7315952 Power state coordination between devices sharing power-managed resources  
Methods and apparatuses for coordination of power state management in and electronic system.
7313711 Adaptive power management in portable entertainment device  
Battery life in portable entertainment devices that play fixed-length music or video files (e.g., MP3 music files) is extended by adaptively adjusting the speed of a processor in the device such...
7313708 Interlocked plug and play with power management for operating systems  
The present invention provides a unified layer for Plug and Play (PnP) components and power management components while relieving device drivers from system-level complexities associated with...
7313712 Link power saving state  
Disclosed are embodiments of a method, apparatus and system for a low power state for a point-to-point link. During the low power state, the signal on both conductors of a differential transmit...
7310535 Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in a wireless device  
A wireless apparatus is described comprising: an RF subsystem to support communication over a wireless network according to a specified network protocol; a Host subsystem to execute program code;...