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US 2010/0169683 A1Published application
Platform and processor power management
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsRen Wang, Christian Maciocco, Sanjay Bakshi, Tsung-Yuan Charles Tai
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Abstract
The present invention relates to platform power management.
Claims14
An electronic device, comprising:
- a host that may be in a lower activity state;
- and
- a platform management unit (PMU) to manage a platform having components with tasks to be serviced by the host, wherein the platform may be in a lower activity state independent of the host's lower activity state, the PMU to cause non-time-critical tasks to be serviced with tasks that cause the platform to wake-up to extend platform idle durations.
A method comprising:
- in a platform lower activity state, determining if there is platform activity to be serviced;
- if there is no activity to be serviced, checking to see if an application task requires servicing;
- and
- if an application task requires servicing, waking up a host and causing the application task to be serviced and while the host is still awake, servicing other tasks.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a task to be serviced by a host;
- checking to see if the task can be put off for at least a break even duration;
- and
- putting the host in a sleep state associated with the break even duration and delaying servicing of the task if the task can be put off for the break even duration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.