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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
May. 30, 2006
Holden D. Jessup, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daylyn M. Meade, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Timothy P. Flood, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Clive A. Hallatt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Holden D. Jessup, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daylyn M. Meade, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Timothy P. Flood, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Clive A. Hallatt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a computing device that selectively communicates with a self-powered device. The self-powered device has several modes of operation, including a first low-power mode of operation and a second high-power mode of operation. The self-powered device is to communicate with the computing device when the self-powered device is in the second mode of operation. The self-powered device may conserve power by alternating between the first mode of operation and the second mode of operation such that the self-powered device is in the second mode of operation during pre-determined or adaptively-determined time intervals. A duty-cycle of the second mode of operation relative to the first mode of operation may be in accordance with a power budget for the self-powered device.