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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2007
Applicants:
Tsai James, Beaverton, OR (US);
Marc Jalfon, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Inventors:
Tsai James, Beaverton, OR (US);
Marc Jalfon, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides a network interface card (NIC), comprising an intelligent wake mechanism and a device driver associated with the intelligent wake mechanism and configured to agree with embedded software on a set of wake codes and wake behaviors associated with the wake codes such that when the NIC encounters a wake event, the NIC first adds the wake code to a command queue, then it drives a PME pin to high to wake a device connected to the NIC.