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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2001
Applicants:

Evandro Menezes, Austin, TX (US);

David F. Tobias, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Richard Russell, Austin, TX (US);

Morrie Altmejd, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Evandro Menezes, Austin, TX (US);

David F. Tobias, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Richard Russell, Austin, TX (US);

Morrie Altmejd, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 126 ; G06F 132 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computer system that has multiple performance states periodically obtains utilization information for a plurality of tasks operating on the processor and determines processor utilization according to the utilization information for the plurality of tasks. The system compares the processor utilization to at least one threshold and selectively adjusts a current processor performance state to another performance state according to the comparison.


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