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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:
Feb. 19, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2010
Applicants:

Sriram R. Vangal, Portland, OR (US);

Nitin Y. Borkar, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Zhen Fang, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Sriram R. Vangal, Portland, OR (US);

Nitin Y. Borkar, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Zhen Fang, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes comparing an occupancy level of a buffer of a port of a router to a threshold, and controlling the port to operate at a first voltage and frequency based at least in part on the comparison, and at least one other port of the router is controlled to operate at a second voltage and frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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