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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:
Sep. 16, 2008

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2004
Applicants:

Bernard J. Lint, Mountain View, CA (US);

Todd A. Dutton, Southborough, MA (US);

Kushagra Vaid, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bernard J. Lint, Mountain View, CA (US);

Todd A. Dutton, Southborough, MA (US);

Kushagra Vaid, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for global and local power management is herein described. Hardware within monitor/receives power management requests for any number of processing elements and adjusts global performance resources to change the global power state of all the processing elements or adjusts a local performance resource for a processing element to operate that processing element at a pseudo power state within the global power state.


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