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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald L Tietjen, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364900 ; 364707 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a data processing system by interrupting the supply of clocking pulses to selected portions of the system in response to a power-down signal provided by a data processing portion of the system only if the state of a respective control signal indicates that that particular portion of the system is then disabled or otherwise inhibited from interrupting the operation of the data processing portion.