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7281148 Power managed busses and arbitration  
A variable speed bus has its frequency adjusted based upon bandwidth requirements of active units coupled to a variable speed bus. As units coupled to the bus are stopped, bandwidth requirements...
7278033 Method and a system for determining the power consumption in connection with an electronic device, and an electronic device  
The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the power consumption in an electronic device, to which a peripheral device is connected, to which the power is supplied from...
7277976 Multilayer system and clock control method  
The multilayer system of this invention is characterized by the process when a first master such as a CPU to which a clock signal is constantly supplied from a clock generator activates a second...
7278040 Mechanism for providing measured power management transitions in a microprocessor  
An apparatus and method are provided that enable a computing device to make graceful power state transitions that do no impose unnecessary power surge compensations requirements on associated power...
7272735 Dynamic power and workload management for multi-server system  
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...
RE39837 Method and apparatus for adjusting a power consumption level based on the amount of time a processor clock is stopped  
A power management mechanism for use in a computer system having a bus, a memory for storing data and instructions, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU runs an operating system having a...
7269752 Dynamically controlling power consumption within a network node  
A method and system for controlling power consumption within a network node is disclosed. The method and system include dynamically controlling the power consumption of network processing engines...
7269750 Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a graphics controller  
The invention in one embodiment is a method of managing power in a graphics controller. The method includes receiving a change indication related to a system power supply. The method also includes...
7266712 Method, system, and apparatus for dynamically configuring the operating point utilized for thermal management of an integrated circuit  
Methods and circuits to define a thermal operating mode for a integrated device by defining an operating voltage and a frequency range.
7263564 Inquiring apparatus and method thereof  
An inquiring apparatus and method thereof is provided for assisting the CPU to inquire the state of the peripheral device. When the CPU needs to perform an inquiring process to wait for a...
7263622 Power-saving device for controlling circuit operation, and information processing apparatus  
An information processing apparatus includes a first function block which controls rendering and a second function block which controls operation modes of the first function block. The rendering is...
7263624 Methods and apparatus for power control in a scalable array of processor elements  
Low power architecture features and techniques are provided in a scalable array indirect VLIW processor. These features and techniques include power control of a reconfigurable register file,...
7260732 Power regulation system and method for a portable electronic device  
A power regulating system and method are provided for regulating power in a portable computing device. The portable computing device includes microprocessing and radio communication capabilities....
7260106 Method and apparatus for managing energy usage of processors while executing protocol state machines  
A method and apparatus of implementing protocol state machines that conserve energy on energy conscious devices is disclosed. Under this method, most of the energy consuming protocol state machine...
7257659 Method for signaling PCI/PCI-X standard hot-plug controller (SHPC) command status  
According to embodiments of the present invention, indicators on a PCI/PCI-X controlled by a Standard Hot-Plug Controller (SHPC) have non-fifty percent duty cycle blinking patterns that communicate...
7257724 Method and apparatus for power management in a local area network  
A method of power management for use in a local area network, in which a plurality of local area network nodes are supplied power over communication cabling, the method comprising: supplying power...
7257720 Semiconductor processing device for connecting a non-volatile storage device to a general purpose bus of a host system  
Disclosed herewith is a semiconductor data processing device that realizes low power consumption at the standby time and at the operation time, as well as speeds up the interfacing operation. The...
7254724 Power management system  
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a power management system for use in a computer system having a memory system incorporating a non-volatile memory and a...
7254721 System and method for controlling an intergrated circuit to enter a predetermined performance state by skipping all intermediate states based on the determined utilization of the intergrated circuit  
A computer system has multiple performance states. The computer system periodically determines utilization information for the computer system and adjusts the performance state according to the...
7254729 Processing system and memory module having frequency selective memory  
A memory module and an apparatus having a memory module for generating an internal clock synchronized to an external clock, the memory module being operated based on the internal clock as an...
7246225 Method and apparatus for implementing a sleep proxy for services on a network  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for implementing a sleep proxy. The system starts by receiving a request at the sleep proxy for information pertaining to a service...
7237128 Method and apparatus to dynamically change an operating frequency and operating voltage of an electronic device  
In one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising determining a target operating point for an electronic device, the target operating point including a target operating frequency and a...
7237133 Power supply control circuit for memories, method thereof and apparatus equipped with memories  
The power consumption is lowered in an apparatus equipped with memories. Assuming that memories are, for example, of DRAM type, each usage circumstance of DRAM modules on a chip is observed by an...
7231531 Personal electronics device with a dual core processor  
A novel personal electronic device includes a processor having first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) cores including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first core...
7228243 Implementing a high resolution monotonic system clock  
An application implementing a high resolution monotonic system clock is provided. A kernel increments a value called a generation number. The generation number is used to determine what state the...
7228448 Method for making power supplies smaller and more efficient for high-power PCs  
Systems and methods for reducing the size of a power supply in a computing device by monitoring activities to maintain the load on the power supply below a predetermined threshold. Through a set of...
7228445 Clock frequency control method and electronic apparatus  
An electronic apparatus includes a clock oscillator which supplies a clock signal, a processor which generates an internal clock on the basis of the clock signal supplied from the clock oscillator,...
7225348 Electrical circuit having cooperating components  
An electrical circuit including components which cooperate with each other, in which a component of the electrical circuit which is waiting for an action to be carried out by another component, is...
7225346 Information processor, program, storage medium, and control method  
There is provided an information processor including a central processing unit that includes an instruction execution module and has a normal mode for operating the instruction execution module and...
7222251 Microprocessor idle mode management system  
An idle mode system has a clock gating circuit, a bus interface unit, memory interfaces and an interrupt and idle control unit. The clock gating circuit receives a first clock and designated...
7219243 Home network power saving device and method for the same  
A home network system with a standby power saving function and a method for saving standby power thereof, wherein various home appliances exchange information with a home server from time to time....
7219248 Semiconductor integrated circuit operable to control power supply voltage  
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a CPU core unit, an on-chip-bus unit coupled to the CPU core unit, a on-chip memory directly connected to the on-chip-bus unit, and a voltage controlling...
7219247 Methods and apparatus for replacing cooling systems in operating computers  
An apparatus and method for replacing a CPU cooling system, for example, a fan, while a computer continues to operate has a mechanism for maintenance personnel to signal that cooling fan...
7219246 Digital system having selectable clock speed based upon available supply voltage and PLL configuration register settings  
Clock speed is controlled based upon the supply voltage to a digital device. When the supply voltage is below a reference voltage the clock speed will be slower than if the supply voltage is above...
7219245 Adaptive CPU clock management  
A method and system for efficiently managing power consumption in a digital processor controls the CPU clock rate based on actual CPU workload by monitoring a measure of the CPU's activity to...
7213161 System for controlling the clock to each of a plurality of protocol circuits of an interface control integrated circuit based on the type of data to be transmitted  
In an interface control semiconductor integrated circuit including a plurality of protocol circuits for processing a protocol such as AV- or PC-oriented protocols engaged in an IEEE 1394...
7210048 Enterprise power and thermal management  
Power consumption by a computer system may vary all the time based upon software and the workload. Facility such as data centers host multiple of computer systems. With continuous growing demand...
7205973 Gradual dimming of backlit displays  
Embodiments of the present invention generally provide methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for gradually dimming backlit displays. The backlit displays may be gradually dimmed...
7206951 Information-processing apparatus and method of controlling power saving  
A power control driver of a BIOS has a function of changing a frequency of clock supplied to a CPU. According to the function of the power control driver, it is possible to set a normal mode for...
7206883 Interruption control system and method  
An interruption control system includes a first input/output interruption controller, a second input/output interruption controller, and an interruption control device bus. The first input/output...
7206959 Closed-loop, supply-adjusted ROM memory circuit  
The supply voltage of a memory system is adjusted in response to changes in the frequency of the clock signal. The memory system measures a time from when data becomes valid on the output of a...
7206949 System and method for controlling a clock oscillator and power supply voltage based on the energy consumed for processing a predetermined amount of data  
A processor capable of reducing power consumption of an electronic information device sends a frequency control signal to a clock oscillator, operates at a frequency in accordance with the...
7206947 System and method for providing a persistent power mask  
A system and method is provided to allow a computer network system to keep a device in a powered off state over a power cycle. A service processor stores the power state information or power mask...
7206960 Bus clock frequency management based on device load  
A frequency manager automatically selects a clock frequency for each device or bus, or for a plurality of devices or buses, in a system, based on various factors and objectives. These factors and...
7206953 Asynchronous fault-tolerant enclosure services interface  
The present invention provides method, interface and computer-readable medium for enabling enclosure services in a computer system including a multi-device enclosure generally remote from a host...
7203853 Apparatus and method for low latency power management on a serial data link  
An apparatus and method for low latency power management on a serial data link are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the detection of an electrical idle exit condition during...
7203857 On-demand clock switching  
First and second functional circuit blocks (FCBs) control the operation of a clock circuits coupled thereto in dependence upon processing requirements of the FCBs as well as power consumption...
7203856 Mobile computer with desktop type processor  
A mobile computer with a desktop type processor. The mobile computer further includes a battery, a current sensor, and a clock generator. The battery supplies a current to the desktop type...
7200763 Method and apparatus for controlling the power consumption of a semiconductor device  
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling the power consumption of a semiconductor device such as a CPU or other form of processor that is operable to process a sequence of instructions....
7197419 System and method for thermal monitoring of IC using sampling periods of invariant duration  
A system and method are provided for monitoring temperature within a specified integrated circuit. Usefully, the system comprises at least one oscillator device proximate to the integrated circuit...