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8112652 Multiprocessor system power management of shared memories powering down memory bank only when all processors indicate not powering that memory bank  
This invention manages power down and wakeup of shared memories in a multiprocessor system. A register for each shared memory has bits corresponding to each master. When a master wants to power...
8112651 Conserving power in a computer system  
A power management unit (PMU) may determine an optimal power saving state using a break-even period of a power saving state and an expected idle duration based on a first policy. The PMU may...
8111502 Arrangement adapted for a subsea application  
An arrangement related to subsea electric power distributing AC-system and adapted for a subsea application. The arrangement is enclosed in a watertight casing. The casing exposes a main power...
8108702 Power saving device controlled by controller or disk  
This is a disk array device comprising means for operating a plurality of controller modules or disks, means for determining the a future operating state, based on operation history of the...
8108705 Power supplying device, power supply controlling method, power supply controlling program and network system  
A power supplying device for supplying power through a network to a plurality of communication terminals to transmit or receive data in a form of a packet including: a power supply controlling unit...
8103893 Thermal management of devices by suspension of offline diagnostic activities  
The present invention provides both a peripheral device that regulates its own temperature by adjusting its power consumption, and a method to accomplish the same. The method generally includes...
8103890 Energy saving method and electronic device with optical disc reproduction apparatus  
An electronic device for selectively reproducing information. The electronic device includes a display, a power supply for supplying power, a switch, and a processor. The switch is connected to the...
8103814 Electronic apparatus and data sending/receiving method thereof  
An electronic apparatus to allow data to be sent and received between a master unit and a slave unit through a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus is provided. Each of the master unit and...
8103894 Power conservation in vertically-striped NUCA caches  
Embodiments that dynamically conserve power in non-uniform cache access (NUCA) caches are contemplated. Various embodiments comprise a computing device, having one or more processors coupled with...
8103895 Information processing apparatus and wake-up control method  
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes devices including functions of generating wake-up signals, a controller which returns the apparatus to the power-on status...
8099611 Powered communications interface with pre-operating mode using low voltages and currents for information signaling  
A powered device can provide information to another device (such as a power sourcing equipment) via a powered communications interface when operating power is not being provided to the powered...
8099616 Power over ethernet port enabling and disabling responsive to access control system  
An electronically controlled method of controlled enabling and disabling of ports, the method constituted of: receiving a message responsive to an access event, the message comprising an identifier...
8099615 Method and system for power management in a virtual machine environment without disrupting network connectivity  
A method for power management. The method includes gathering resource usage data for a first blade and a second blade on a blade chassis, migrating each virtual machine (VM) executing on the first...
8099613 Method and apparatus for reduced power consumption in an image forming device  
An image forming apparatus of the invention can operate in a first mode for performing an image forming process and a second mode having low power consumption at a time of stop of the image forming...
8099614 Power management for buses in cmos circuits  
The invention relates to a controlled shut-down of an electronic circuit or circuits such that the electrical power consumption of that circuit or circuits is minimized and that each said circuit...
8099618 Methods and devices for treating and processing data  
A data processing unit having a field of clocked logic cells (PAEs) which is operable in different configuration states and a clock preselecting means for preselecting logic cell clocking. The...
8095728 Method and system for power aware I/O scheduling  
A method for retrieving a logical block, including receiving a request to read the logical block, and obtaining metadata associated with the logical block, wherein the metadata includes a...
8095809 System and method for reducing power consumption of a transistor-based circuit having multiple operational modes characterized by different power consumption level  
A method for reducing power consumption, and a system having power reduction capabilities, the method includes: storing, at a first circuit, data representative of a state of a second circuit,...
8095816 Processor management using a buffer  
In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises a buffer, a plurality of processors, and a processor control module. The processor control module is to manage how many of the plurality of processors are...
8095817 Information processing apparatus that maintains sound controller in power saving mode when speaker is set in volume full-mute state  
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a sound controller which reproduces a sound signal, and a sound driver which controls a drive of the sound controller. The...
8095815 System for reducing power consumption in an electronic chip  
A system for reducing power consumption in an electronic device comprising at least one electronic chip comprises a plurality of local access network (LAN) ports, a transceiver coupled between the...
8093759 Regulated energy supply for a rapidly cycling integrated circuit with reduced electromagnetic radiation  
A device (12) supplies energy to a rapid cycling and/or rapidly cycled integrated circuit (13, 52) which includes a circuit load (17) and an internal capacity (15) connected parallel to the circuit...
8090970 Apparatus and method for playing multimedia data  
A multimedia data reproducing device is provided which includes: a codec converting digital data into an analog signal by a predetermined method and reproducing the analog signal; and a control...
8090969 Method and apparatus for managing power consumption relating to a differential serial communication link  
A circuit includes a primary transceiver, a secondary transceiver, and control logic. The primary transceiver communicates information via a primary communication link. The secondary transceiver...
8090964 Multi-function perpiheral device  
A multi-function peripheral device includes: a plurality of interfaces that communicate data with an external devices; a power source for supplying the interfaces with power required for the...
8090826 Scheduling data delivery to manage device resources  
Managing power-consuming resources on a first computing device by time-based and condition-based scheduling of data delivery from a plurality of second computing devices. A scheduler executing on...
8090963 Automated power management of a peripheral device  
Based on bounds of a period of reduced operation for a base device, a base device generates a power management message for transmission to a peripheral device. In the power management message, the...
8089451 Display device and electronic apparatus equipped with the same  
A display device and an electronic apparatus equipped with such a display device are provided. The display device includes a liquid crystal display that displays an image; normal-illumination LEDs...
8090966 Power management method for a multi-microprocessor system  
A power management method for a multi-microprocessor system is provided. The multi-microprocessor system comprises a first microprocessor and a second microprocessor. The power management method...
8086877 Storage device and control method for the same  
A storage device is provided with: a first management section that manages a storage area provided by one or more hard disk drives on a basis of a predetermined unit created using one or more...
8086879 Powering on devices via intermediate computing device  
Methods and apparatus relating to powering on devices via an intermediate computing device are described. In an embodiment, a request for data by a first device may be detected at a second device....
8086878 Methods and apparatus for provisioning phantom power to remote devices  
An apparatus provisions power from a power budget to remote devices configured to obtain phantom power. The apparatus includes, among other things, a controller which is configured to identify a...
8086883 Hardware driven processor state storage prior to entering a low power  
A data processing apparatus includes a processor for processing data and having memory interface logic for controlling transfer of data to a memory. Also included is a memory for storing data...
8082461 Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit, a controlling unit, and a monitoring unit to monitor, while the printing unit and the controlling unit are in a power-saving mode in which power...
8082460 Network-connectable device and method for managing power of the network connectable device using a plurality of power modes  
A network-connectable device is configured to communicate with one or more computer-related devices via a network. The network-connectable device includes: a mode selector configured to select a...
8082458 Configuring an operating state of a terminal device  
Techniques are described herein for achieving network-based wake-up functionality for power management functions using a standard network controller for embedded applications. A network controller...
8078892 Information-processing apparatus, packet processing method, and computer program product for communicating with an external network device and switching between a normal power mode and a power saving mode  
A processor includes a communication control unit for communicating with an external network device via a connecting unit. A power control unit switches a power mode between a normal power mode and...
8078896 Adaptive power saving  
A device may enter a first active state associated with a device, exit the first active state and entering a sleep state associated with the device when user input is not received within a...
8078893 Power supply method for supplying power to external device by selecting power supply mode in memory associated with identification information  
According to one embodiment, an information processor capable of supplying power to an external device includes a connector, a storage module, a receiver, a selector, and a power supply controller....
8078897 Power management in federated/distributed shared memory architecture  
This invention is a power management scheme for a shared memory multiprocessor system which splits the control logic between the master-specific logic and memory bank logic. Power-down is initiated...
8077015 Method for waking a device in response to a wireless network activity  
A method and a system for data transmission between a first electronic device and a second electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is in a sleep mode. Transmission of data between...
8074090 Storage system including plurality of storage apparatuses  
Conventionally, no consideration was given to the control of the main power supply circuit in a storage apparatus. Thus, unnecessary electric power will be consumed because it is not possible to...
8074014 Storage systems using write off-loading  
Improved storage systems which use write off-loading are described. When a request to store some data in a particular storage location is received, if the particular storage location is...
8074087 Configuring processors and loads for power management  
Controlling processors and processor hardware components in a computing device based on execution load and a power saving preference. The power saving preference relates to responsiveness of the...
8074091 Storage apparatus for power saving and achieving longest mean time between failures  
Proposed is an operation method for seeking a power interruption operation target in which MTBF will become longest. When a target value regarding a power interruption time and a target value...
8073669 Method and apparatus for detecting clock gating opportunities in a pipelined electronic circuit design  
A pipeline electronic circuit and design methodology enables power conservation in the stages of the pipeline via a simulation that identifies clock-gating opportunities among the stages of the...
8073779 ***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Disaggregated secure execution environment
 
An electronic device, such as, a computer, may be adapted for self-monitoring for compliance to an operating policy. The operating policy may specify a pay-per-use or subscription business model...
8069257 Universal serial bus system interface for intelligent platform management interface communications  
Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed for utilizing a universal serial bus (“USB”) transport as a system interface to transmit and receive IPMI commands and responses. An intelligent pla...
8069354 Power management for system having one or more integrated circuits  
Power management control software including power management policies is provided with those policies divided into observation code and response code. When predetermined execution points within the...
8069355 Data path controller with integrated power management to manage power consumption of a computing device and its components  
A data path controller, a computer device, an apparatus and a method are disclosed for integrating power management functions into a data path controller to manage power consumed by processors and...