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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:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2006
Applicants:
Xiaogang Gu, Shanghai, CN;
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Michael A. Rothman, Puyallup, WA (US);
Yuanyuan Xing, Shanghai, CN;
Inventors:
Xiaogang Gu, Shanghai, CN;
Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, WA (US);
Michael A. Rothman, Puyallup, WA (US);
Yuanyuan Xing, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method for fast resume from sleep mode. Reserved cache memory is used to store drivers and configuration variables. Upon resume, the drivers and configuration are read from the ACPI reserved cache memory and executed in memory rather than read from slower flash or CMOS memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.