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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:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
James C Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Packard Bell NEC, Inc., Sacramento, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713300 ; 713320 ; 365229 ;
Abstract
A computer system having a power monitoring device places a write-back cache memory into a write-through mode upon detection of a low-battery condition or a user request. Under write-through mode, the cache memory need not be flushed every time a suspend mode of the computer system is entered. Thus significant power is saved during typical portable computer operations.