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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Liang MA, Shannon, IE;
Ping Yu, Shanghai, CN;
Fan Zhang, Limerick, IE;
Weigang Li, Shanghai, CN;
Xin Zeng, Shanghai, CN;
Xiao Long Ye, Shanghai, CN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Various systems and methods for implementing protocol state aware power management are described herein. A network interface device for implementing protocol state aware power management includes circuitry to provide a direct memory access interface; medium access control (MAC) circuitry to interface with a network; and control circuitry to: classify packets received at the MAC circuitry as packets used to open network connections or packets used to close network connections; maintain statistics of packets used to open network connections and packets used to close network connections; calculate a power hint based on the statistics of packets used to open connections and packets used to close network connections; and write a receive descriptor to a host memory using the direct memory access interface, the receive descriptor including a power hint field with the power hint, the power hint used by a host processor to scale processor power based on the power hint.