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Electrical Computers And Digital Processing Systems: Support > Computer Power Control > Power Conservation > By Shutdown Of Only Part Of System By Shutdown Of Only Part Of SystemBy Shutdown Of Only Part Of System patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/22/07 - 20070271477 - System and method for throttling power in one or more information handling systems An information handling system includes support for dynamic power throttling. In one embodiment, an information handling system includes power level detection and power control modules. The power level detection module may monitor power consumption for the information handling system and may automatically transmit power level data to a power level ... 11/15/07 - 20070266270 - External storage device and power management method for the same An external storage device includes a media control section (10), a monitoring section (20), an interface section (30) and a power control section (40). The media control section (10) drives a recording media and performs data access to the recording media. The monitoring section (20) monitors whether the data access ... 10/25/07 - 20070250731 - Business method, system, and media providing for power-state change as a function of direction of right-to-use status change The present invention provides a computer-implemented limited right-to-use business method. In response to a command to change the right-to-use status of at least a first component, the right-to-use status of said processor is changed in a direction either from reserved to available or from available to reserved. Then, the power ... 10/04/07 - 20070234094 - Methods and apparatus to control power consumption within a processor Methods and apparatus are disclosed to control power consumption within a processor. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes logic to identify at least one instruction type and to initialize a counter value corresponding to a maximum number of instructions to be performed, the maximum number being at least partially dependent ... 09/13/07 - 20070214376 - Apparatus and method for restoring working context Provided are an apparatus and method of transmitting working context, which can minimize power consumption in a power-off standby mode of a portable apparatus including a system on a chip, where the method includes selecting a power-off standby mode, transmitting working context with respect to a hardware module, which is ... 04/19/07 - 20070088966 - 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 power manager disables overdrive voltages for response time compensation with one or more predetermined conditions, such as reliance on internal power ... 04/05/07 - 20070079161 - Power-efficient technique for invoking a co-processor Various embodiments are disclosed relating to power-efficient techniques for invoking a co-processor. In an example embodiment, a computer system may include a first processor (e.g., a host processor) and a second processor (e.g., a co-processor). The first processor may instruct the second processor to perform an operation repeatedly on a ... 03/22/07 - 20070067659 - 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 over their data connections is made more efficient by ensuring that the power to the small mobile device is not ... 02/22/07 - 20070043965 - Dynamic memory sizing for power reduction Systems and methods of dynamic memory for power reduction are described with respect to a memory with a coupled sleep device. In one embodiment, the operating requirements can reflect amount of memory required to perform commensurate operations. Memory power management logic is used to coordinate memory requirements with operating requirements. ... 02/08/07 - 20070033426 - System and method for direct-attached storage and network-attached storage functionality for laptops and pcs A chipset in a host computer enables the internal HDD of the host computer to be accessed by another computer either through the USB port (for direct access shared storage) or the Ethernet port (for network attached storage) without having to boot the host computer. ... 11/16/06 - 20060259804 - Apparatus and methods for control of a memory controller Apparatus and methods are disclosed for controlling the memory controller and, in particular, controlling signaling of the memory controller to a memory via memory interface during a static screen condition. An apparatus includes static image detection logic that is configured to detect when image data being displayed by a display ... 10/19/06 - 20060236145 - Contents reproduction device A contents reproduction device realizes reduction of power consumption by controlling power supply control according to the input contents. More specifically, in the contents reproduction device, the PSI analysis unit analyzes additional information in the inputted contents so as to check whether video contents are contained or the signal detection ... 09/07/06 - 20060200693 - Information processing apparatus and control method for use in the same According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, a disc drive unit drives a removable medium, a first switch and a second switch which are provided on the main body, a unit which powers on the main body in response to an operation of one of ... 09/07/06 - 20060200692 - 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 executed by the built-in accelerator and there is no processing to be executed by the processor core, the interlock mechanism ... 08/03/06 - 20060174149 - System and method for dynamically managing power consumption of integrated circuitry An integrated circuit (IC) chip (100) containing a plurality of voltage islands (124I-M) containing corresponding functional blocks (104I-M) that can be selectively fenced, i.e., powered down, while saving the states of the corresponding inputs, and unfenced in order to manage power consumption of the chip. Each fencable functional block includes ... 07/27/06 - 20060168463 - Register file gating to reduce microprocessor power dissipation A circuit arrangement and method of controlling power dissipation utilize a register file (60) with power dissipation control capabilities through a banked register design coupled with enable logic (62, 82) that is configured to selectively disable unused banks (70) of registers by selectively gating off clock (74), address (76) and ... 07/06/06 - 20060149985 - Power management of multi-processor servers A method and system are provided for dynamically managing delivery of power to partitionable elements in a computer system while supporting terms of a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Parameters of the SLA are gathered in conjunction with the topology of the computer system. Transactions associated with the SLA are monitored ... 06/22/06 - 20060136767 - Method and apparatus for adaptive power management of memory A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing adaptive memory power management in a system employing a CPU and a memory subsystem. A CPU throttle control (THR) module generates a CPU throttle control signal indicating when the CPU is idle. A memory controller (MC) module generates memory power management signals ... 06/15/06 - 20060129862 - Power saving device for network controller of computer The computer comprises a power supply for supplying power. The power saving device for network controller of computer comprises a network controller, a switch connecting between the power supply and the network controller, a control circuit connecting the power supply and the switch and a network connector. The network comprises ... 05/11/06 - 20060101299 - Controller for instruction cache and instruction translation look-aside buffer, and method of controlling the same There are provided a controller for an instruction cache and an instruction TLB (Translation Look-aside Buffer), and a method of controlling the same. The controller includes: a processor core outputting an address of a current instruction; a branch predictor performing a branch prediction of the outputted current instruction address to ... 05/04/06 - 20060095807 - Method and apparatus for varying energy per instruction according to the amount of available parallelism A method and apparatus for changing the configuration of a multi-core processor is disclosed. In one embodiment, a throttle module (or throttle logic) may determine the amount of parallelism present in the currently-executing program, and change the execution of the threads of that program on the various cores. If the ... 02/23/06 - 20060041769 - 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 that these cache lines are unlikely to be accessed in the future. The decay interval may be increased ... 12/01/05 - 20050268134 - Electronic device and control method thereof An electronic device with a plurality of electronic components, the electronic device includes a microcomputer, a first regulator supplying power required to drive the microcomputer in a first mode of the electronic device, a second regulator supplying power required to drive at least one among the plurality of electric components ... 11/24/05 - 20050262369 - Semiconductor memory device, and method of controlling the same An internal voltage generator when activated, generates an internal voltage to be supplied to an internal circuit. Operating the internal voltage generator consumes a predetermined amount of the power. In response to a control signal from the exterior, an entry circuit inactivates the internal voltage generator. When the internal voltage ... 11/24/05 - 20050262368 - 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 pair are driven to electrical idle. Analog activity detectors are enabled during the low power state and are ... 10/20/05 - 20050235173 - Reconfigurable integrated circuit The present invention describes an integrated circuit (100) having a processor that consists of a plurality of identical, or at least very similar, processing elements (120) organized in a regular grid. Each processing element (120) is capable of executing the desired functionality of the processor. The processing elements (120) are ... 10/13/05 - 20050229018 - Configurable processor A processor comprises a main controller (CTR11) and a plurality of processing units (1-9). Each processing unit (1-9) has a local controller (CTR1- CTR9) and at least one functional unit (FU1-FU9) controllable by the local controller (CTR1-CTR9). The local controller (CTR1-CTR9) of a processing unit (1-9) is coupled (15) to ... 09/29/05 - 20050216779 - Device and method for managing a standby state of microprocessor A microprocessor includes a computation unit for executing operations respectively associated with instructions of a determined set of instructions of the microprocessor. A control unit interprets the instructions and controls the computation unit accordingly. The microprocessor further includes a blocking unit which is controlled by the control unit in response ... 09/29/05 - 20050216778 - 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 interpreting the instructions and for controlling the logic units accordingly. An internal timer of the microprocessor is activated by the control unit in response ... 09/08/05 - 20050198546 - Device and method for controlling an internal state of information processing equipment The state control device for controlling an internal state of information processing equipment includes a scenario table, an information recorder, an information player and a state change controller. The information recorder acquires sync information and one item or a plurality of items of state information from the information processing equipment ... 08/18/05 - 20050182984 - Conserving power by reducing voltage supplied to an instruction-processing portion of a processor One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates reducing static power consumption of a processor. During operation, the system receives a signal indicating that instruction execution within the processor is to be temporarily halted. In response to this signal, the system halts an instruction-processing portion of the ... 07/14/05 - 20050154935 - Mobile terminal and method for auto-locking thereof Disclosed is a method for automatically locking a mobile terminal having functions, such as incoming and outgoing calls. The method includes the steps of setting an auto-lock time period to restrict the use of one or more predetermined functions; activating an auto-lock mode to restrict the use of the predetermined ... 06/02/05 - 20050120256 - 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 management unit includes a daemon program and a device idle time table. The daemon program is used for carrying out ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |