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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131364 | Method For Managing the Charge Level of a Battery in a Mobile Terminal, Corresponding Management System and Computer Program The present disclosure relates to a method for managing the charge level of a battery of a mobile terminal connected to a network of transmission of information. The method comprises measuring the charge level of the battery. If the charge level of the battery is lower ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131363 | HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF A heat dissipating device and the method thereof are provided. The heat dissipating device includes at least one fan, a temperature detecting unit, a fan control unit, and a power consumption control unit. The temperature detecting unit detects a temperature inside the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120131365 | Delayed Shut Down of Computer A computer-implemented computer shut-down method includes identifying that a computing device has been moved from an open configuration in which input and output mechanisms on the computing device are accessible to a user, to a closed configuration in which at least som... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131362 | BATTERY POWER CONTROL DEVICE, PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PORTABLE DEVICE Disclosed are a battery power control device, a portable device and a method of controlling the portable device. The disclosed portable device includes a workload calculator which calculates a workload necessary to provide the specific service to the user according to a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120104692 | DOCUMENT FEEDING DEVICE THAT PERFORMS AN INITIAL OPERATION, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DOCUMENT FEEDING DEVICE THAT PERFORMS AN INITIAL OPERATION Provided is a document feeding device including: a document feeding portion for feeding a document; a document set detecting portion for detecting presence/absence of a set document; a determination portion for determining whether power supply to the device is started b... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109388 | Load Shedding by an Electric Utility Load shedding by an electric utility, including querying power distribution systems that include a DRG system for present power consumption of the local load of the power distribution system; selecting, in dependence upon the present power consumption of the local load ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110360 | APPLICATION-SPECIFIC POWER MANAGEMENT An application-specific power management technique may establish a separate power-down interval for one or more applications based on user interaction with the one or more applications. In some implementations, during use of a particular application, when a management c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110357 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A communication apparatus that is capable of communicating with network nodes more properly even when a control unit thereof shifts to a power-saving state. An NIC communicates with the network nodes via a network. The controller communicates with the network nodes via ... | 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 |
| 20120110358 | POWER CONTROL OF SECONDARY COPY STORAGE BASED ON JOURNAL STORAGE USAGE AND ACCUMULATION SPEED RATE Arrangements having multiple second storage systems which each include a restore control unit for controlling restoration processing, in which a data element in a journal stored in a journal storage area is written into a secondary logical volume, and a storage device c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110286 | Image processing apparatus, power-saving recovery control method, and computer program product An image processing apparatus including: a first storage unit; a second storage unit that has a higher storage capacity than that of the first storage unit and a longer start-up time than that of the first storage unit; and a control unit that, after shifting to a power... | 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 |
| 20120084583 | DATA TRANSFORM METHOD AND DATA TRANSFORMER A data transform method and a data transformer. The method includes: importing a data transform rule; acquiring from the data transform rule a source data definition, a destination data definition and a data transform rule definition; predicting resource energy consumpt... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084587 | 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 base device inserts bounds of a period of reduced operation for the perip... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084584 | POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS A power management method in a user terminal receives a power from a power supply unit to charge a system voltage, compares the system voltage with a preset voltage, and controls a power input from the power supply unit according to the comparison result.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084585 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF REMOTE POWER CONTROL, POWER CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus that has a plurality of functional units and is capable of communicating with a power monitoring apparatus and supplying power to an appropriate functional unit according to whether a main power switch is operated by an operator or a ... | 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 |
| 20120072748 | RADIO DEVICE A method including configuring a processor to determine whether a radio device is communicating with an additional device, configuring the radio device to enter into a power stale in response to whether the radio device is communicating with the additional device, and m... | 03/22/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120072042 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE A power supply device including: (a) a power supply unit group composed of a plurality of power supply units and connected with a power consuming appliance; and (b) a control device configured to control the power supply unit group, wherein the control device and each o... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072033 | AUTO-ADAPTABLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS According to an aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus includes a processor operable to manage energy use at a site wherein the processor is configured to detect a user interaction with the apparatus and create a personalized schedule automatically in response to the us... | 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 |
| 20120072746 | FACILITATING POWER MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates power management in a multi-core processor. During operation, the system detects a change related to a number of active processor cores in the multi-core processor. (Within this system, a given processor core c... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072744 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE POWER EFFICIENCY IN HYBRID STORAGE CLUSTERS Systems and methods for reducing power consumption and power leakage in hybrid storage clusters is provided. More specifically, the systems and methods for reducing power consumption select a particular cache (memory) technology in hybrid storage clusters based on perfo... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072747 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SHIFTING TO POWER SAVING MODE, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus capable of shifting to a power saving mode. The image processing apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store a document in a storage device, a notification unit configured to periodically notify an apparatus of a predetermined des... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072919 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXPOSING AND MANAGING A SET OF PERFORMANCE SCALING ALGORITHMS A mobile device, a method for managing and exposing a set of performance scaling algorithms on the device, and a computer program product are disclosed. The mobile device includes a multiple-core processor communicatively coupled to a non-volatile memory. The non-volati... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054515 | MECHANISM FOR VOLTAGE REGULATOR LOAD LINE COMPENSATION USING MULTIPLE VOLTAGE SETTINGS PER OPERATING STATE A system includes one or more processor cores, and a voltage regulator that provides an operating voltage to the one or more processor cores in response to receiving a voltage identifier signal that is indicative of the operating voltage. The system also includes a powe... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050053 | System and Method for Detecting Generator Incipient Failures A method, system and computer software for detecting an incipient failure of a generator in a power system including the steps of ascertaining one or more generator reference parameter of the generator for use as a baseline reference; measuring one or more operating par... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054516 | EFFICIENT STORAGE POWER MANAGEMENT Devices and methods for storage power management that depend at least partly on the operational component requesting access to the storage. For example, an electronic device may include storage and data processing circuitry. The storage may be capable of being activated... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054512 | Managing Server Power Consumption In A Data Center Methods, system, and computer program products are provided for managing server power consumption in a data center. Embodiments include detecting, by a circuit monitoring interposer, a type of a power circuit that is currently coupled to the circuit monitoring interpose... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054519 | DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE CONTROL OF PROCESSING NODES An apparatus and method for performance control of processing nodes is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a processing node and a power management unit configured to, for each of a plurality of time intervals, monitor an activity level of the processing nod... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054513 | APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING TIMER MANAGEMENT REGARDING A SYSTEM TIMER SCHEDULER SERVICE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD An apparatus for performing timer management regarding a system timer scheduler service includes: a processor arranged to control operations of the apparatus; an ordinary timer arranged to provide the processor with time ticks, for use of timing control; and a hardware-... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054514 | ESTIMATING AND MANAGING ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR QUERY PROCESSING Techniques are described for estimating and managing energy consumption for query processing. Embodiments of the invention may generally receive a query to be executed and calculate an initial estimated energy consumption value for the received query. If the initial est... | 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 |
| 20120054517 | Multi-Port Interface Circuit and Associated Power Saving Method In one aspect, a multi-port interface circuit applied to a playback apparatus which is able to switch among a plurality of input ports coupled to a plurality of source devices for playing back. Each input port has a receiver, the receiver including a front-end for recei... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047380 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION IN A LOW POWER MODE Provided herein is a method, apparatus, and computer program product for presenting information on a display to a user when the display is operating in a low, or reduced power mode. In particular, the method includes providing for operation in a user interface state tha... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047379 | BATTERY POWER MANAGEMENT FOR A MOBILE DEVICE Techniques for managing battery power of a mobile device are described. In an aspect, battery power may be reserved for an application prior to execution of the application on the mobile device. The reservation may ensure that the application has sufficient battery powe... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047383 | Mechanism for Manager and Host-Based Integrated Power Saving Policy in Virtualization Systems A mechanism for a manager and host-based integrated power saving policy in virtualization systems is disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving configuration and power information of a host machine from a management agent on the host machine, performing a m... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047382 | Script engine for control of power management controllers A power management IC (PMIC) and methods thereof have been achieved wherein the PMIC invented supports multiple applications while having a high degree of flexibility and allowing a small built and a low power consumption. An embedded script engine on an internal commun... | 02/23/2012 |
