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7484111 Power on demand and workload management system and method  
Network architecture, computer system and/or server, circuit, device, apparatus, method, and computer program and control mechanism for managing power consumption and workload in computer system...
7480812 Microprocessor  
A processor core adopts a pipeline processing method and has an interlock mechanism. A built-in accelerator executes a specific processing in place of the processor core. When a processing is...
7480808 Method and apparatus for managing power consumption relating to a differential serial communication link  
Briefly, a method, apparatus and system for managing power corresponding to a differential serial communication link that has a link width defined for example by one or more lanes wherein the lanes...
7480811 Power supply system for personal computers  
A power supply system for personal computers aims to provide an additional sub-power supply needed when a personal computer requires a power greater than what can be provided by the original main...
7480813 Portable electronic apparatus having a transfer mode for stopping an operating state of a device  
A portable notebook PC comprising a lid is able to avoid possible trouble during its transfer (as when a user carries the PC with him or her) and is able to reduce the time required to start up...
7480809 Reducing power consumption of a microprocessor  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for reducing the power consumption of a microprocessor. One or more signal transitions in an...
7478253 Reduction of power consumption in electrical devices  
Reducing power to a minimum permissible value based on temperature of a component may permit savings in power consumption.
7478251 Methods and apparatus for provisioning uninterruptible power for power over Ethernet applications  
A controller in PSE (Power Sourcing Equipment) controls how to provision uninterruptible power through corresponding ports (and cables) of the PSE to network devices. For example, the controller of...
7478260 System and method for setting a clock rate in a memory card  
A memory card that includes a buffer configured to receive transactions, a storage media, and a control circuit coupled to the buffer and the storage media is provided. The control circuit is...
7475263 Method for power management of central processor unit  
A method for a power management of a central processor unit is disclosed. The method is applied to when the central processor unit is in a low power state without snooping and a bus master signal...
7475265 Data storage device and control method for power-saving modes of serial interface thereof  
Embodiments of the invention reduce consumption power of a data storage device. In one embodiment, an HDD according to the embodiment selectively switches a serial interface among other circuits to...
7475261 Substrate bias switching unit for a low power processor  
The feature of the present invention consists in: a processor main circuit for executing program instruction strings on a processor chip; a substrate bias switching unit for switching voltages of...
7472292 System and method for throttling memory power consumption based on status of cover switch of a computer system  
A power throttling method and system for a memory controller in a computer system. One embodiment includes, responsive to a determination that a change in the state of a cover switch has occurred...
7472302 Method and apparatus for reducing leakage power in a cache memory using adaptive time-based decay  
An adaptive cache decay technique is disclosed that removes power from cache lines that have not been accessed for a variable time interval, referred to as the cache line decay interval, assuming...
7472303 Information preservation on a portable electronic device  
A system and method for information preservation on a portable electronic device. A signal indicating an energy capacity threshold remaining in the battery of a hand held device may be generated....
7472298 Storage system and method for saving energy based on storage classes with corresponding power saving policies  
An example of the invention classifies disks drives based on their purpose and associating power-saving policies in multiple classes. The system implements Power On Demand, where a reduced power...
7472289 Audio noise mitigation for power state transitions  
An audio noise mitigation approach. For one aspect, a first voltage associated with a first power management state is provided. A signal responsive to an indication associated with at least a first...
7472296 Integrated circuit, semiconductor device and ID chip  
A contactless semiconductor device is provided where a low power consumption is achieved and wireless communication is carried out stably. A power supply level of a reader/writer and the operating...
7472297 Method initializing an environment of an integrated circuit according to information stored within the integrated circuit  
A method for automatically initializing the operational settings of a system from information stored within a non-volatile storage of an integrated circuit so that the operational requirements of...
7472291 Method and apparatus for integrating ACPI functionality and power button functionality into a single power key  
A power-managing key apparatus uses a power key to integrate the function of ACPI management of computer hardware and hibernation on/off of operation system. A processor coupled to the power key...
7472299 Low power arbiters in interconnection routers  
Methods and apparatus to reduce power consumption in arbiters of interconnection routers are described. In one embodiment, an arbiter may be turned off for a select number of clock cycles if no...
7472290 Methods and apparatus to maintain and utilize mobile power profile information  
A controller in PSE (Power Sourcing Equipment) controls how to provision uninterruptible power through corresponding data ports (and cables) of the PSE to network devices. For example, the...
7468853 Storage apparatus and control method therefor  
A storage apparatus comprises at least one housing A in which a storage device and a controller are provided, at least one housing B in which a storage device and a peripheral device are provided,...
7469352 Method and related apparatus for reducing chipset power consumption  
A chipset has a plurality of driving units, each unit connecting to an address pin of a memory module for driving a one-bit address signal while accessing the memory module. The method detects...
7469350 Power control interface for a self-service apparatus  
A particular problem for self-service devices incorporating USB devices ( 12 ) and a USB host ( 14 ) is that, when communication is lost between the USB host and one or more of the devices it is...
7469351 Multiple computer equipment and management method for determining number of AC-DC power modules to be operated by calculating power consumption based upon system information  
An object of the present invention is to provide a management technique for managing power supply modules. In multiple computer equipment 100 , in response to a load state, if an operation system ...
7469349 Computer system and method of signal transmission via a PCI-Express bus  
A computer system and a method of signal transmission via a PCI-Express bus is provided for transmitting a power-saving signal among a plurality of peripheral devices. For the peripheral devices...
7469315 Storage controller, and method of controlling storage controller to improve the reliability of the storage controller  
The present invention controls supply of power to a storage device on the basis of an access status, moves a logical storage device between physical storage devices having different power supply...
7467310 Systems and methods for reducing static and total power consumption in programmable logic device architectures  
A method and system for reducing power consumption in a programmable logic device (PLD) is provided. The power consumption may be reduced by preferably continually considering power consumption as...
7467280 Method for reconfiguring cache memory based on at least analysis of heat generated during runtime, at least by associating an access bit with a cache line and associating a granularity bit with a cache line in level-2 cache  
A method for reconfiguring a cache memory is provided. The method in one aspect may include analyzing one or more characteristics of an execution entity accessing a cache memory and reconfiguring...
7466996 Global management of local link power consumption  
Methods, and arrangements for power reduction in links, such as transmitters and receivers, based upon global decisions such as the data transmission frequencies, communications media, and traffic...
7467309 Point of load regulator having a pinstrapped configuration and which performs intelligent bus monitoring  
A new system-level approach to managing the delivery of DC voltage and current. Several system level functions may be enabled without requiring separate ICs to perform those functions. Supervisory...
7467312 Arrangement and method for controlling communication of data between processors  
The communication of data between two coupled processors is controlled using a ready-to-receive signal which is provided by the first processor such that it has an activated signal level or a...
7467313 Method for transmitting a power-saving command between a computer system and peripheral system chips  
A method for transmitting a power-saving command between a computer system and system chips thereof is described. A power-saving command associated with a first system chip is introduced to the...
7467308 Method for transmitting the system command of a computer system  
A PCI-Express bus is incorporated in a method for transmitting a power-saving command between a computer system and its plurality of peripheral devices of the present invention. More particularly,...
7467311 Distributed system and method for managing power usage among server data processing systems  
A distributed method and system for managing power usage among server data processing systems are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a server data processing system of a plurality of server...
7467059 Extended thermal management  
A method for managing thermal condition of a thermal zone that includes multiple thermally controllable components include determining thermal relationship between the components and reducing...
7467306 Methods and systems for allocating power to an electronic device  
In at least some embodiments, a system comprises an electronic device having an adjustable hardware inventory and control logic coupled to the electronic device. The control logic initially...
7467315 Method for enabling power-saving mode  
In a method for enabling a power-saving mode for an electronic apparatus, a power mode index Ips is determined according to transmission indices Bit 0 ˜Bitn and/or port situation indices Ip 0...
7464280 Power module for a plurality of processors  
In at least some embodiments, a multi-processor power module comprises components that are replicated at least for each of the plurality of processors. The multi-processor power module further...
7464277 Microprocessor performance mode control utilizing sensed temperature as an indication of microprocessor utilization  
Methods and systems are disclosed for controlling microprocessor (CPU) performance modes utilizing sensed temperatures as an indication of CPU utilization. By recognizing that temperature can be...
7464278 Combining power prediction and optimal control approaches for performance optimization in thermally limited designs  
The operating rate of an electronic system is maximized without exceeding a thermal constraint, such as a maximum junction temperature of an integrated circuit (IC) or other portion of the...
7464279 Pre-activation of network devices  
An approach for pre-activating network devices includes using prior usage of a network device to estimate times when the network device will be used in the future. The network device is then...
7464276 Method and apparatus for adjusting the voltage and frequency to minimize power dissipation in a multiprocessor system in response to compute load  
A method for adjusting the voltage and frequency to minimize power dissipation in a processor. The method of one embodiment comprises determining a power consumption value. The power consumption...
7461274 Method for maximizing server utilization in a resource constrained environment  
A mechanism for controlling the hardware resources on a blade server, and thereby limiting the power consumption of the blade server is disclosed. The enforceable hardware resources that are...
7461275 Dynamic core swapping  
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to dynamically swap processor cores. A first core has a first instruction set. The first core executes a program at a first performance level....
7461271 Optical record carrier recording apparatus  
An optical recording apparatus with a small form factor optical drive for driving an optical record carrier is operable in different accessing modes having different data rates depending on the...
7461280 Recall circuit for quitting a power saving mode  
A recall circuit for quitting a power saving mode is disclosed, which is applicable to a television functioning as the display screen of a computer, which mainly uses a microprocessor to turn on...
7461279 Logic circuit system and method of changing operating voltage of a programmable logic circuit  
A logic circuit system, having a programmable logic circuit including a circuit configuration including a first set of plural unit circuits and that is reconfigurable during operation, a circuit...
7461278 Power control of remote apparatus via network  
A power consumption control method for collectively controlling the power consumption of electronic apparatuses connected to a network is provided. When an electronic apparatus is connected to the...