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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131372 | PoE POWER SOURCING EQUIPMENT AND POWER SUPPLYING METHOD A Power over Ethernet (PoE) power sourcing equipment that optimizes power supplied to a PoE powered device connected to one of a plurality of power supplying ports of the PoE equipment. The Power over Ethernet (PoE) power sourcing equipment includes a plurality of power... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131371 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING POWER STATES OF A COMPUTER A method for obtaining a power state of an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) of a computer starting a baseboard management controller (BMC) after a power supply system of the computer is powered on. The BMC detects if a power signal from the power supply... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110362 | APPARATUS THAT PREVENT A MALFUNCTION OF THE CIRCUIT AND REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION An interface circuit provided with a first input/output unit and a second input/output unit which respectively access external apparatuses to which electric power is supplied from power sources via different electric power supply lines includes an acquisition unit confi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110361 | Device For Controlling The Power Supply Of A Computer The invention relates to a device for controlling a computer (4) capable of being powered with a plurality of voltage levels, including a controller (2) arranged so as to receive charge data (Ci), deadline data (Ni), and instantaneous speed data (w) for sa... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POWER-EFFICIENT AND NON-SIGNAL-DEGRADING VOLTAGE REGULATION IN MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a memory subsystem comprising a memory controller, multiple memory modules interconnected with the memory controller by one or more communications media, each memory module comprising a substrate to which multiple mem... | 05/03/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120072755 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION MODE OF STORAGE DEVICE, AND STORAGE DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE STORAGE A method and apparatus control an operation mode of a storage device, including determining, by the storage device, an external power connection state of a host device connected to the storage device; and determining the operation mode of the storage device according to... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120054527 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER CAPACITY IN DATA CENTERS USING A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK Various embodiments for managing power capacity in a facility include: a plurality of wireless sensor devices deployed in a facility, each wireless sensor device to monitor electrical power usage of at least one of a plurality of electrical devices in the facility; peri... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054528 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING POWER IN A CHIP THROUGH A POWER-PERFORMANCE MONITOR AND CONTROL UNIT A system and method for controlling power and performance in a microprocessor system includes a monitoring and control system integrated into a microprocessor system. The monitoring and control system includes a hierarchical architecture having a plurality of layers. Ea... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054526 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL APPARATUS In an electronic control apparatus, a microcomputer stops its operation when a power voltage supplied from a regulator starts to fall. When a low voltage detection circuit detects fall of the power voltage, the microcomputer is reset immediately and a communication star... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047384 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SELECTING A RESOURCE IN RESPONSE TO A CHANGE IN AVAILABLE ENERGY Methods and systems are described for selecting a resource in response to a change in available energy. A change in a first energy source is detected during processing of a first resource by a program component. A second resource is selected based on a measure of an ene... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047385 | MULTICORE PROCESSOR POWER CREDIT MANAGEMENT TO ALLOW ALL PROCESSING CORES TO OPERATE AT ELEVATED FREQUENCY A microprocessor includes two or more processing cores each configured to determine, at each of succeeding instances in time, an amount of energy consumed by the microprocessor during a period preceding the instance in time. The period is predetermined. Each core also o... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047386 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD There is provided a control apparatus that instantaneously switches a DC/DC converter from a maximum-power-point tracking operation to an output voltage control operation, and can constantly supply an electric power to a load. The control a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047387 | Cache control device and cache control method A cache control device includes, in a secondary cache data unit, a clean area that stores only information that is the same information as that stored in a main storage. Then, the cache control device monitors information on electrical power consumption of the cache con... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042191 | Method For Managing the Execution of a Software Architecture of a Radiocommunication Circuit With Constant Processor Frequency, Corresponding Computer Program Product and Circuit A method for managing execution by a processor of a software architecture included in a radiocommunication circuit is provided. The software architecture includes a radiocommunication software stack and at least one client application. The has the following steps, for a... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036387 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD A storage system includes a storage and control units. In each of the control units: a relay unit relays access to the storage; an access controller accesses the storage through one of the relay unit in the control unit and the relay unit in another of the control units... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036385 | Method For Controlling The Power Usage Of A Computer A method and apparatus for controlling the power usage of a processor is disclosed. The power usage of the processor is monitored. When the power usage of the processor exceeds a threshold power usage value, the power used by the processor is reduced or limited. A proce... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036386 | SERVER MONITORING SYSTEM A server managing system includes a first server unit, a second server unit, and a monitor device connected to the first server unit and the second server unit in series. Each of the first server unit and the second server unit comprises multiple hardware components and... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030494 | POWER SUPPLY SELECTOR AND POWER SUPPLY SELECTION METHOD In the field of electronic technologies, a power supply selector and a power supply selection method are provided. The power supply selector includes: a first selection module, configured to select a power supply from multiple candidate power supplies; a control module,... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030488 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING MULTI-POWER RAIL STATUS OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Methods and apparatus provide for indicating multi-power rail status of integrated circuits by taking into account a clock signal provided by, for example, core logic, in addition to considering voltage levels of multiple power rails. In one example, the apparatus inclu... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030486 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS AUTONOMOUS TRANSDUCER SOLUTIONS An autonomous transducer system is disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes an energy scavenging module, energy storage module, a load circuit having at least one functional block providing a given functionality, and a power management module arranged for providing... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023345 | MANAGING CURRENT AND POWER IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM A system and method for efficient power transfer on a die. A semiconductor chip comprises on a die two or more computation units (CUs) utilizing at least two different voltage regulators and a power manager. The power manager reallocates power credits across the die whe... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023351 | DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF POWER BUDGET FOR A SYSTEM HAVING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically allocating power for a system having non-volatile memory. A power budgeting manager of a system can determine if the total amount of power available for the system is below a pre-determined power level (e.g., a low power... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023356 | PEAK POWER VALIDATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY Systems and methods are disclosed for validating a non-volatile memory (NVM) package for use in an electronic device before it is incorporated into the device. A NVM package may be validated by determining its power consumption profile, and if the profile meets predeter... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017106 | MULTIPLE-SPEED INTERFACE The present invention provides a security module having a communication interface being capable of operating according to any from a selection from a plurality of predetermined operation modes or communication protocols. The security module further comprises a voltage d... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011388 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND POWER LINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A comparison section determines whether the amount of electric power acquired by a power management section is less than a predetermined threshold. A selection section selects, based on the determination result from the comparison section, at least one modulation/demodu... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005514 | MULTICORE PROCESSOR POWER CREDIT MANAGEMENT IN WHICH MULTIPLE PROCESSING CORES USE SHARED MEMORY TO COMMUNICATE INDIVIDUAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION A microprocessor includes two or more processing cores each configured to compute a first value in response to detecting a power event. The first value represents an amount of energy the core consumed during a time interval leading up to the event. The length of the tim... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005502 | Device Charging System Optimized bus powered peripheral battery charging includes a circuit to initiate a change in an advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) state in a controller allowing charging of a peripheral device battery, the circuit including a signal converter coupled bet... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005513 | PERFORMANCE CONTROL OF FREQUENCY-ADAPTING PROCESSORS BY VOLTAGE DOMAIN ADJUSTMENT A performance control technique for a processing system that includes one or more adaptively-clocked processor cores provides improved performance/power characteristics. An outer feedback loop adjusts the power supply voltage(s) provided to the power supply voltage doma... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005515 | ADAPTIVE EVENT-GUIDED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AVOIDING VOLTAGE EMERGENCIES In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is a system for avoiding voltage emergencies. The system comprises a microprocessor, an actuator for throttling the microprocessor, a voltage emergency detector and a voltage emergency predictor. The voltage emergency det... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320849 | DETERMINING POWER TOPOLOGY OF A PLURALITY OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS Determining power topology of a computer system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including communicating with a first computer system of a plurality of computer systems mounted in a rack (the communicating through dedicated communication conduc... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320839 | MEMORY POWER MANAGEMENT VIA DYNAMIC MEMORY OPERATION STATES Described herein are techniques for dynamic memory frequency/voltage scaling to augment existing memory power management techniques and further improve memory power efficiency. Each operating point is defined as an operational state for the memory.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320848 | FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM DESIGNER A system may include a database configured to store information including characteristics of a plurality of components. The system may further include a server in communication with the database and configured to receive design parameters indicative of a plurality of lo... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320847 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION FOR MEMORIES Described herein are a method and an apparatus for reducing power consumption of memories by monitoring the power states of the memories via an operating system. The method comprises reading counter values corresponding to power states of each memory of a plurality memo... | 12/29/2011 |
