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Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2018
Applicant:

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thien Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);

Shaun Pinney, Newark, CA (US);

Hiroyasu Ito, Foster City, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2019.01); G06F 1/3287 (2019.01); G06F 12/0875 (2016.01); G06F 12/0866 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1028 (2013.01); G06F 2212/451 (2013.01); G06F 2212/452 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method are disclosed for improving power savings by accelerating suspend and resume operations. The apparatus having a main integrated circuit, the integrated circuit having a context area, a context snooper, and a context cache, the context area configured to store context change information, the context snooper configured to monitor the context change information, and the context cache configured to store at least a portion of the context change information being monitored by the context snooper; and a memory, the memory configured to receive the at least a portion of the context change information from the context cache upon a suspend process signal to the main integrated circuit, to retain contents during the main integrated circuit suspend, and restore the at least a portion of the context change information to the context cache and/or the context area upon a resume process signal to the main integrated circuit.


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