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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131366 | LOAD BALANCING FOR MULTI-THREADED APPLICATIONS VIA ASYMMETRIC POWER THROTTLING A first execution time of a first thread executing on a first processing unit of a multiprocessor is determined. A second execution time of a second thread executing on a second processing unit of the multiprocessor is determined, the first and second threads executing ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131357 | POWERED DEVICE CLASSIFICATION IN A WIRED DATA TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK In a wired data telecommunication network power sourcing equipment (PSE) coupled to a powered device (PD) carries out an inline power discovery process to verify that the PD is adapted to receive inline power, then a plurality of classification cycles are carried out to... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131358 | COMPUTER STORAGE COMPONENTS THAT PROVIDE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ACCESS A primary computing device and a secondary computing device couple with an internal storage component of the primary device powered by, and data accessed by either the first or secondary computing device. The internal storage component includes multiple connectors for c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131356 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING POWER OF MULTI CORE PROCESSOR AND METHOD THEREOF The present invention relates to an apparatus for controlling power of mufti core processor, which includes a power control device by core unit, controls a plurality of power-related parameters by core unit, and thus decreases a load for power management and enables rea... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110355 | Power Supply Circuit and Power Supply Method Provided is a power supply circuit capable of suppressing a power supply voltage to be input to an integrated circuit device to low level. A power supply circuit (10) controls power supply to an integrated circuit device (30) having a built-in IC chip (... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110354 | HOLDER WITH SOLAR MODULE FOR HOLDING PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES One embodiment of a holder for holding portable electronic devices includes a main support body being a rectangular rigid plate; a main support member hingedly secured to a rear end of the main support body, the main support member being a rectangular rigid plate and co... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110351 | POWER MANAGEMENT FOR DIGITAL DEVICES In a digital device, activity of (or load on) one or more processors, peripherals and memory buses are measured. A power management framework operated in the digital device bases power settings in the digital device on the measured loads, and accordingly issues power ma... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110380 | INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM FORCED ACTION COMMUNICATED OVER AN OPTICAL INTERFACE A forced power down signal issues from an I/O device to an information handling system through an optical interconnect if the information handling system fails to power down in response to a normal power down message. A 100% duty cycle signal issues from an optical inte... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110356 | PROVIDING POWER OVER ETHERNET WITHIN A VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK A power distribution system within a vehicle operates to provide power over Ethernet to a plurality of network node modules coupled to a vehicular communication network of the vehicle.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110353 | Debugger Recovery on Exit from Low Power Mode A device is configured with components to enable debugging of the device's entry into and exit from a low power mode. The device includes: core logic, debug components, and a power management module (PMM). When the device exits a low power mode in which the states of th... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110352 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THERMAL CONTROL OF PROCESSING NODES An apparatus and method for per-node thermal control of processing nodes is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of processing nodes, and further includes a power management unit configured to set a first frequency limit for at least one of the plurality of pro... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110350 | POWER SUPPLY GRID SWITCH Examples relate to a grid switch adapted for use with a power supply, wherein the grid switch selects an operational power grid from first and second power grids if one of power grids has failed, and selects between the first and second grids based on a policy if both t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109705 | DATA CENTER SYSTEM THAT ACCOMMODATES EPISODIC COMPUTATION A data center system is described which includes multiple data centers powered by multiple power sources, including any combination of renewable power sources and on-grid utility power sources. The data center system also includes a management system for managing execut... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110381 | INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM FORCED ACTION COMMUNICATED OVER AN OPTICAL INTERFACE A forced power down signal issues from an I/O device to an information handling system through an optical interconnect if the information handling system fails to power down in response to a normal power down message. A 100% duty cycle signal issues from an optical inte... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084586 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR GUARANTEED MINIMUM PROCESSOR POWER STATE DWELL TIME A method, device, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes causing a processor to enter into a first power state. Then an interrupt is received that signals the processor to leave the first power state. The method continues by causing the processo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084579 | Power Distribution To Computer System Power distribution to computer systems. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems including a power supply configured to convert an alternating current (AC) power signal to a direct current (DC) power signal (and the power supply comprising a first power... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084582 | STORAGE DRIVE MANAGEMENT With embodiments of the invention, a more robust solution is provided using a storage driver that may already be used for the platforms operating system. This is efficient because the storage driver typically already monitors storage drive access requests, and thus know... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084604 | Automation system for testing and measurement of system and device parameters, and control and automation of systems A system and apparatus which allows for superior testing and measurement, as well as control and automation capabilities. This invention comprises a modular foundational system for automation that provides essential building blocks for a variety of test, measurement and... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084576 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: an optical disk apparatus; a receiver which receives a command indicating that a tray provided in the optical disc apparatus is ejected; a power supply module which supplies electric-power to eac... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084577 | CHARGE PUMP APPARATUS, A MEMORY INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHODS OF POWER SUPPLY A power supply, and a method of controlling the power supply, in which more or less power capacity of the power supply is activated depending on the state of a digital data signal on a data bus. The power supply has a control circuit which detects the number of “zeroâ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084551 | FAN CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE AREA IN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM A fan control method for an information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes a device area and a fan for providing air flow to the device area. A plurality of devices is installed on the device area. The method includes the steps of: col... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084578 | Using a Single Terminal for a Power Enable Output Signal and Detecting an Over-Current Condition A power controller for a peripheral bus interface. A peripheral bus power controller includes a first terminal, a second terminal coupled to receive an power enable input signal from a host controller, and a third terminal coupled to provide an over-current output signa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084575 | Synchronized Voltage Scaling and Device Calibration A method is provided for scaling voltage in an integrated circuit. A calibration operation is performed on a functional module on the integrated circuit periodically at a rate T1. At least one parameter on the integrated circuit in monitored to determine when a performa... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING POWER MANAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS A method and apparatus for providing power management enhancements. In an embodiment, the method comprises receiving an indication that the computing device is in a non-user-interactable state and powering down non-essential device components such that the computing dev... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072745 | SERVER POWER MANAGEMENT WITH AUTOMATICALLY-EXPIRING SERVER POWER ALLOCATIONS One embodiment provides a power management method for servers in a data center. A group of servers is selected, and the total power allocated to a group of servers is limited to within a group power budget. A separate server power allocation is individually requested fo... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072753 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM WITH ROUTER AND CHARGER FUNCTIONS, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME An electronic system with router and charger functions and a method for operating router and charger functions are disclosed. The electronic system connects to an electronic device and includes a router module, a charger module, and a connection interface. In which, the... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072743 | Hierarchical Power Management Circuit, Power Management Method Using the Same, and System on Chip Including the Hierarchical Power Management Circuit A hierarchical power management circuit includes N power management circuits respectively included in N power domains each including at least one intellectual property (IP), wherein N is a natural number greater than one. The i-th (1<i<N) power management circuit ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING WOL FUNCITON OF COMPUTERS In a system and method for testing a wake-up on LAN (WOL) function of a computer, the computer connects to a server through a local area network (LAN). The system constructs a network connection between the server and the computer according to an Internet protocol (IP) ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072754 | METHOD FOR SYSTEM ENERGY USE MANAGEMENT OF CURRENT SHARED POWER SUPPLIES A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, where the computer readable program code is adapted to, when executed by a processor, implement a method for managing a power supply system. The method includes ide... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072741 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A computer system includes at least one device, a connector which is connected to a power supply apparatus which supplies power having a predetermined level to operate the computer system, a power unit which converts and provides the power supplied from the power supply... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072740 | Power Booting Sequence Control System and Control Method Thereof The present invention discloses a power booting sequence control system and the control method thereof, which optimizes a power booting sequence of a plurality of power switches in an integrated circuit. An initial module initializes a target charge value, a preset curr... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072756 | Power Management of Components Having Clock Processing Circuits A method and system for managing power consumption of a component that employs a clock processing circuit to produce a processed clock signal used by the component from a clock signal supplied to the clock processing circuit. A frequency of a clock signal supplied to th... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072041 | INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS HOUSING FOR A SOLAR ARRAY An integrated electronics housing contains both system electronics and power generation circuits for a two-axis tracker assembly having a CPV solar array. The housing contains at least a communication bus, motion control circuits, and inverter circuits, and acts as the ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072738 | REDUCING LATENCY WHEN ACTIVATING A POWER SUPPLY UNIT A method for reducing latency using a charging module when activating a power supply unit (PSU) among a plurality of PSUs in a power supply system. The method includes: Receiving, by the PSU from a power input feed, input power; receiving, from a supply bus shared by th... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072039 | Dynamic Contingency Avoidance and Mitigation System The disclosed subject matter provides systems and methods for allocating resources within an infrastructure, such as an electrical grid, in response to changes to inputs and output demands on the infrastructure, such as energy sources and sinks. A disclosed system inclu... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072739 | SHORT CIRCUIT CONTROL FOR HIGH CURRENT PULSE POWER SUPPLY A power supply circuit apparatus, and method for controlling the same, includes multiple power supplies connected to a load via power channels and a controller. The controller detects a short circuit in the power supply based on a measured load input current.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054508 | Method, Device and Terminal for Controlling Dual-Processor Switch A method, a device and a terminal for controlling dual-processor switch are disclosed in the present invention. The terminal may include an X86 processor system, an embedded processor system and a switch module connecting the X86 processor system with the embedded proce... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054507 | NETWORK A communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, each comprising a network device and a network interface, at least one of the nodes having a first local power manager associated therewith and adapted to control power to the network device.... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054502 | Method to Support Switchable Graphics with One Voltage Regulator A voltage regulator for use with switchable graphics processors. The voltage regulator includes a graphics processor mode selection control input. By providing the graphics processor mode selection control input it is possible to save pins for a parallel voltage identif... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054518 | Circuits and Methods for Providing Adjustable Power Consumption Circuit and methods provide for adjustable power consumption using a plurality of memory controllers. In one example, a first memory controller has a first power consumption level. A second memory controller has a second power consumption level that differs from the fir... | 03/01/2012 |
