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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Saravana Krishnan Kannan, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5083 (2013.01); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and device for controlling a frequency of a processor of a computing device are disclosed. The method includes receiving requests to process tasks on a processor of the computing device, classifying each of the tasks as either a new workload group or an historic workload group, and monitoring a load placed on the processor due to each of the workload groups. And the frequency of the processor is controlled based upon a total workload on the processor and a contribution of each of the workload groups to the total workload.