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US 8,135,559 B2Granted
Extended thermal management
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsGuy M. Therien, Robert T. Jackson
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Abstract
A method for managing thermal condition of a thermal zone that includes multiple thermally controllable components include determining thermal relationship between the components and reducing temperature of a first component by reducing thermal dissipation of a second component.
Claims14
A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer instructions stored therein for causing a computer processor to perform a method comprising:
- reading a thermal relationship table to determine a first thermal influence amount a first device has on a second device, wherein the first device and second device are located in a single thermal zone;
- and
- making a thermal policy decision affecting at least the thermal condition of the second device in response to determining the first thermal influence amount.
A power management apparatus, comprising:
- storage to store a thermal relationship table;
- and
- logic to
- read the thermal relationship table to determine a first thermal influence amount a first device has on a second device, wherein the first device and second device are located in a single thermal zone;
- and
- make a thermal policy decision affecting at least the thermal condition of the second device in response to determining the first thermal influence amount.
3 more elements
A method, comprising:
- a processor reading a thermal relationship table to determine a first thermal influence amount a first device has on a second device, wherein the first device and second device are located in a single thermal zone;
- and
- a processor making a thermal policy decision affecting at least the thermal condition of the second device in response to determining the first thermal influence amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.