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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhishek Sagar, Redmond, WA (US);
Paresh Maisuria, Issaquah, WA (US);
James Anthony Schwartz, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
M. Nashaat Soliman, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An operating system of a computing device determines an importance of the threads running on the computing device, such as assigning the importance of the threads as critical or non-critical. The operating system determines when there are no threads having at least a threshold importance (e.g., no critical threads), and forces one or more components of the computing device into a forced idle state in response to determining that there are no threads having at least the threshold importance. The forced idle state of a device component is a low power state, such as a state in which program instructions are not executed, so the computing device is forced into a forced idle state that reduces power usage in the computing device despite there being threads (e.g., non-critical threads) to be executed.