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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190940 | Personal computer power control method and device The present invention describes a method for controlling electrical power supply to a personal computer installation, which may have a number of peripheral devices attached, such as printers, monitors etc. The method includes providing a first controlled power outle... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190939 | Reducing power consumption of computing devices by forecasting computing performance needs Techniques and systems are provided that work to minimize the energy usage of computing devices by building and using models that predict the future work required of one or more components of a computing system, based on observations, and using such forecasts in a d... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185765 | Storage apparatus and its power saving control method Provided are a storage apparatus and its power saving control method capable of performing sufficient power saving to multiple memory devices without deteriorating the response performance to a host system. If multiple logical volumes formed in disk drives configuri... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185766 | Hierarchical power management with hot mode Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for providing power/energy control. HPM (Hierarchical Power Management) systems provide for and improve on the power management support beyond what is available in current PC notebooks and deskt... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185763 | Method of and apparatus for informing user about setting state of wake-on-LAN function An apparatus for informing a user about a setting state of a Wake-on-LAN (WOL) function includes a WOL-setting determining module to determine a setting state of a WOL function of an information-processing device, and a WOL-setting display module to inform a user of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185764 | Techniques for ensuring power delivery over only data-active pairs of data communications cabling A power delivery technique which involves connecting power sourcing equipment (PSE) with a powered device (PD) through data communications cabling (e.g., an Ethernet cable). The technique further involves negotiating an acceptable power level for the PD and a data r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176350 | Powering computer system communication unit according to whether program executing and/or webpage accessed is user selected A computer system. The computer system includes a communication unit to receive power to perform communication with an external apparatus; and a controller to check whether at least one program to make the communication unit perform the communication is executing, a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171325 | Computing component and environment mobility Methods, services, devices, and programmable code are provided for moving computing processes without loss of service. Powered components supporting a computing infrastructure executing computing processes are monitored for thermal characteristics, each associated w... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171324 | Information processing device, data writing method, and program for the same An information processing apparatus comprises: a creation unit creating a preset number of pieces of second data by duplicating first data, and holding the second data in a predetermined area or sending the second data to another information processing apparatus; a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171326 | L1 flush mechanism to flush cache for power down and handle coherence during flush and/or after power down In one embodiment, a processor comprises a data cache configured to store a plurality of cache blocks and a control unit coupled to the data cache. The control unit is configured to flush the plurality of cache blocks from the data cache responsive to an indication ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166328 | Low power consumption processor Provided is a low power consumption processor. The processor includes: a plurality of blocks; a memory storing instructions that control each of the plurality of blocks; and a multi power controller generates a signal that activates at least one of the plurality of ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166329 | Circuit for facilitating computer system waking up from sleep state A circuit for a computer system, includes a pulse width module (PWM) module and a control circuit. The PWM module is capable of converting a first voltage to a second voltage. The first voltage is capable of decreasing slower than the second voltage to have the PWM ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166327 | Network system Power consumption on GMPLS controlled networks can be reduced by cutting power consumption on spare paths that are not normally used. To achieve power consumption reduction, in the path setting process, a path is calculated while taking the power saving capability o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166326 | Managing power consumption in a computer Methods, apparatus, and products are disclose for managing power consumption in a computer, the computer including random access memory (‘RAM’) implemented in two or more memory modules, the computer having installed upon it an operating system, the operating sy... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156361 | Computer system and power saving method thereof A computer system includes a system chip and a plurality of peripheral devices. The system chip includes a plurality of modules. Each module includes a controller. Each controller receives an independent power supply and is powered on or off according to a GPIO port... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151129 | Computer with low-power secondary processor and secondary display A computer having an active mode and an inactive mode includes a primary processor and a primary memory. A primary display is associated with the primary processor and the primary memory. The primary processor, the primary memory, and the primary display are operate... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8151128 | Computer system power source with improved light-load efficiency Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that supplies power in a computer system. The system includes a power adapter coupled to a source of electrical power and a set of a set of power consumers coupled to a power bus in the computer system. A full-po... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8135972 | Data interface power consumption control Apparatus and techniques relating to data interface power consumption control are disclosed. Components of a data transfer module may be selectively moved between their normal operating states and reduced power states at times when the data transfer module is not to... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132033 | Storage system There is provided a storage system including a file server connecting to a computer over a network and a storage apparatus connecting to the file server connecting over the network, wherein the file server includes a first controller, the storage apparatus includes ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127166 | Power management within a data protection system Various techniques for managing power consumption of computing devices within a data protection system are disclosed. For example, one method involves accessing policy information, which the policy information indicates when one or more data protection system activi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127163 | Data network and method of controlling thereof A data network that includes a plurality of nodes for storing data and a plurality of control units adapted to control at least one of the nodes in which individual nodes are powered-up when the assigned control unit receives a request from a client to access the da... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127164 | System and method for energy savings on a PHY/MAC interface for energy efficient ethernet A system and method for energy savings on a PHY/MAC interface for energy efficient Ethernet. Power savings for a PHY due to low-link utilization can also be realized in the higher layer elements that interface with the PHY. In one embodiment, subrating is implemente... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127165 | Multipath power management Disclosed is a method of controlling power. Multiple paths via multiple I/O ports couple a server to a storage array. When I/O loads are low, it is determined if an I/O port may be deactivated and placed in a power saving mode. An I/O port may not be deactivated if ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127167 | Methods for reducing power consumption and devices using the same A method for reducing power consumption of a device with an embedded memory module is provided. The device includes comprises a processor, an embedded memory module, a software module, a power supplying unit, and an auxiliary logic. The embedded memory module is acc... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122271 | System, method, and device for providing secure operating environments for computer systems The present invention includes a system, method, and device for providing secure operating environments for computer systems. In one form, a method for providing a secure operating environment for a network accessible system is disclosed. The method includes accessi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122272 | Method and apparatus for power management An electronic device includes a processor configured to run a plurality of applications, a power supply coupled to the processor, and a database coupled to the processor The database is configured to store information identifying each of the plurality of application... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117478 | Optimizing power usage by processor cores based on architectural events A method and apparatus to monitor architecture events is disclosed. The architecture events are linked together via a push bus mechanism with each architectural event having a designated time slot. There is at least one branch of the push bus in each core. Each bran... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117479 | Electronic apparatus and auto wake-up circuit thereof The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus and an auto wake-up circuit thereof. The electronic apparatus comprises a main module for performing a main function of the electronic apparatus and generating a first control signal when the electronic appara... | 02/14/2012 |
| 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 down a memory, it sets its corresponding bit in the register. A hardware... | 02/07/2012 |
| 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 to preset a count of the communication terminals which are to be tar... | 01/31/2012 |
| 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 monitoring the temperature of the mass storage device and reducing power... | 01/24/2012 |
| 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 one or more NUCA cache elements. The NUCA cache elements may comprise ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 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 in response to wake-up signals, and a first nonvolatile memory which ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 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 of the accessing party and an indication of the access event; determ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 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 blade to the second blade based on the resource usage data and a firs... | 01/17/2012 |
| 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 is at a status which is a pre-determined state (42; 52) of that... | 01/17/2012 |
| 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 sound driver includes a volume full-mute determination unit which det... | 01/10/2012 |
| 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 used to process data from the buffer based at least in part on an amou... | 01/10/2012 |
| 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 unit including a core generating a reproduction block by decoding multim... | 01/03/2012 |
| 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 communicates information via a secondary communication link. The contro... | 01/03/2012 |
