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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2008
James King, Wokingham, GB;
James King, Wokingham, GB;
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A mobile phone that uses OS virtualization for minimizing power consumption in mobile phones is provided. A mobile phone according to the invention may include a plurality of application stacks and a plurality of processor cores. Each of the application stacks preferably corresponds to one of the plurality of processor cores. The mobile phone also includes a hypervisor. In a first state, the hypervisor allocates tasks from each of the application stacks to the processor core that corresponds to the respective application stack. In a second state, the hypervisor allocates selected tasks from the plurality of application stacks to a single processor core. The second state may be an idle state and the tasks that are allocated to the single processor core may be periodic tasks.