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7434073 Frequency and voltage scaling architecture  
A method and apparatus for scaling frequency and operating voltage of at least one clock domain of a microprocessor. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to techniques to divide a...
7434076 Device and method for wireless communication selection and control  
A wireless communication device and system is provided for detecting an incoming wireless signal and selecting the power state and performance of one or more interface units that are adapted to...
7434072 Integrated circuit power management control  
Power management control software including power management policies is provided with those policies divided into observation code 18, 20, 22 and response code 26, 28, 30 . When predetermined...
7430675 Anticipatory power management for battery-powered electronic device  
Methods and apparatus for managing power consumption of a battery-powered electronic device are disclosed. According to one embodiment, power management can take action to reduce power consumption...
7430679 Charging of mobile devices  
A system which enables battery powered devices such as notebook computers to efficiently charge smaller mobile devices such as music players, cell phones and PDAs using the power signals provided...
7430677 Data processing device, and control method of data processing device  
A multifunctional device shifts the states of plural reception units from a state that the device operates in a power saving state to a state that the device operates in an operating state,...
7430676 Method and apparatus for changing the clock frequency of a memory system  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates changing a clock frequency in a memory system. During operation, the system receives a command to change the clock...
7430678 Low power operation control unit and program optimizing method  
An objective is to perform a low power operation of a microprocessor on the pipeline stage of an instruction decode and a preceding pipeline stage without the necessity for increasing a circuit...
7430673 Power management system for computing platform  
A power management system for a computing platform is described. In one embodiment, the power management system provides additional device states which the device controllers of the platform assume...
7430674 Magnetic stripe reader with power management control for attachment to a PDA device  
A magnetic stripe card manual swipe reader (MSR) unit capable of attaching to and communicating with a conventional personal digital assistant (PDA) from various manufacturers, using only the...
7428646 Wireless control system and method thereof  
A wireless control system for a computer with a processing system includes a power supply, a microprocessor, a wireless control portion and a signal transceiver. The power supply converts an...
7428647 System and method for managing information handling system display response time  
Image quality and power management associated with a LCD panel are balanced with selective enabling and disabling of response time compensation to selection of liquid crystal material states. A...
7428645 Methods and apparatus to selectively power functional units  
A processing engine fetches one or more lines of software instructions into an instruction cache. Based on the contents of the cache, potentially needed functional units are identified as...
7426649 Power management via DIMM read operation limiter  
A method and system for enabling directed temperature/power management at the DIMM-level and/or DRAM-level utilizing intelligent scheduling of memory access operations received at the memory...
7426650 Asynchronous wrapper for a globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) circuit  
The invention concerns an asynchronous wrapper for a globally asynchronous, locally synchronous circuit. The asynchronous wrapper operates with a request signal-driven clock control, supplemented...
7426648 Global and pseudo power state management for multiple processing elements  
A method and apparatus for global and local power management is herein described. Hardware within monitor/receives power management requests for any number of processing elements and adjusts global...
7426646 Computer apparatus, storage apparatus, system management apparatus, and hard disk unit power supply controlling method  
To provide a storage system capable of minimizing a performance deterioration, saving power consumption, and realizing a high reliability. A storage system according to the present invention...
7426645 Digital power supply controller with integrated microcontroller  
A monolithic digital power supply controller is disclosed for controlling the operation of a switched power supply. The controller is contained within an integrated circuit package enclosing an...
7426647 Low power media player for an electronic device  
A low power media player is provided for an electronic device, such as a hand-held portable computer having capability to operate an application during a low power mode. During the low power mode,...
7424624 Rack equipment power purchase plan supervision system and method  
A rack equipment power purchase plan supervision system and method is presented. In one embodiment of the present invention, a rack equipment power purchase plan supervision system includes rack...
7424740 Method and system for activating a computer system  
A system and method for improved activation of a personal computer and/or other processing devices is provided. Power and security states are combined and further reduced to three activation states...
7424631 Terminal device having power saving mode and folding mechanism enabling open/close motion of the 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...
7424623 Personal computer integrated with personal digital assistant  
A personal computer (PC) adapted to function as a personal digital assistant (PDA) includes: a central processing unit (CPU) responsive to a control signal to load a first operating system or a...
7424625 Printing apparatus and power supply control method in printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus is equipped with multiple interfaces adapted to connect external devices adapted to store image data and operated by power supplied from a first-connected external device, and...
7421591 Data flow control system and method for conserving power in a power managed system  
A system and method for conserving power in a power managed information handling system are provided. While the host unit or central processing unit of the information handling system is in a...
7421603 Method for monitoring the operating readiness of at least one memory element assigned to an electronic unit  
A method for monitoring the operating readiness of memory elements which are assigned to an electronic unit, an engine control unit for example. Furthermore, an electronic unit for executing the...
7421600 Power saving method  
A power-saving method of continuous display and effective cost in a system that includes memory directly accessed by a CPU and at least one display device within vertical blanking. The method...
7421601 Method and system for controlling power in a chip through a power-performance monitor and control unit  
A system and method for controlling power and performance in a microprocessor system includes a monitoring and control system integrated into a microprocessor system. The monitoring and control...
7421599 Power management server and method for managing power consumption  
A power management server and method for managing power consumption is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a power management server data processing system is provided, where the power...
7421598 Dynamic power management via DIMM read operation limiter  
A method and system for enabling directed temperature/power management at the DIMM-level and/or DRAM-level utilizing intelligent scheduling of memory access operations received at the memory...
7421595 Device and method for managing a standby state of a microprocessor  
A microprocessor includes a computation unit having logic units for executing operations associated with determined instructions of a microprocessor instruction set and a control unit for...
7421596 Disk array system  
In a disk array system, multiplexed clusters and multiplexed power source units for supplying power sources to the respective clusters are arranged. Each cluster has a power failure judging unit...
7421597 Computing system with operational low power states  
A method is described that involves operating a computing system within a normal on state and transitioning from the normal on state to a main CPU/OS based state. In the main CPU/OS based state one...
7420881 Interactive switching device for a portable electronic apparatus  
The device includes data entry means ( 10 ), control means ( 14 ) connected to means ( 12 ) for displaying said data. The invention is characterised in that it further includes a processing unit (...
7421290 Power supply subsystem for powering a node over communication cabling  
A power supply subsystem configured for connection between a LAN switch and at least one node, the power supply subsystem providing electrical power to the at least node over communication cabling,...
7418561 Adaptive throttling of memory accesses, such as throttling RDRAM accesses in a real-time system  
Apparatus and methods to adaptively throttle accesses to memory employ a masking tool to specify the percentage of memory bandwidth available for access. The apparatus applies the mask and monitors...
7418608 Method and an apparatus for managing power consumption of a server  
A method and an apparatus for managing power consumption of a server have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes allowing a user to set a power management policy on a server,...
7418614 External signal detection circuit and real-time clock  
An external signal detection circuit includes an input port, to which a first end of a circuit including a pull-up resistor connected in series with a first switch portion is connected, the input...
7418605 System for controlling power to sequential and combinatorial logic circuitry in an integrated circuit  
A method for reducing power consumption in an integrated circuit and an integrated circuit having a power reduction feature. The integrated circuit has at least two functional circuit blocks and...
7418607 Automatic power conservation method for an optical media device  
The present invention relates to an automatic power conservation method for an optical media device, which is capable of turning off other circuit components that are still in operation using the...
RE40473 Dynamic performance adjustment of computation means  
A dynamic performance circuit adjustment system and method that flexibly adjusts the performance of a logic circuit. The dynamic performance circuit adjustment system and method facilitates...
7418609 Method for instant on multimedia playing  
A method for instant on multimedia playing is provided, which enables a computer to selectively enter an operation mode of an IOMP (Instant On Multimedia Player) program when it enters a power...
7418610 Optical disk drive with power save mode  
The present invention relates to a portable optical disk drive having a power save mode for reducing the energy consumption. It is an object of the invention to propose an improved solution for a...
7415625 Policy table rule based processor side bus signaling  
A system and method for selecting a computer hardware component of a computing system to throttle based on a selection policy is disclosed. A co-thermal control system may receive a first signal...
7415622 Adaptive digital power control system  
An adaptive digital power control system is disclosed, which implements a digitally controlled, near real-time algorithm to accommodate multiple loop current mode controls for low voltage, high...
7415624 System and method for saving power in a wireless network by reducing power to a wireless station for a time interval if a received packet fails an integrity check  
A method, an apparatus and a carrier medium storing instructions to implement the method. The method is in a first wireless station of a wireless network, and includes wirelessly receiving a signal...
7415544 Architecture and method for the centralised control of remote peripheral electronic devices  
Architecture and method for the centralised control of events occurring in correspondence with remote peripheral electronic devices, in particular wireless devices, provided with radio units which...
7415623 System for managing the power source life between multiple individually powered devices in a wired system and method of using same  
A power management system ( 100 ) includes a group of individually powered electronic devices ( 101 - 107 ) connected with a power management controller ( 109 ). The power management controller (...
7415604 Method for adjusting an operating rate of a graphics card  
A method for increasing an operating rate of a graphics card includes: raising a rotation rate of a radiator fan of a graphics processing unit chip of the graphics card to a first rotation rate...
7412612 Dynamically optimized power converter  
A device and method for dynamically optimizing a power converter is disclosed. The dynamically optimized power converter unit includes a processor that maximizes efficiency of a power converter...