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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2009
Sameer Halepete, San Jose, CA (US);
H. Peter Anvin, San Jose, CA (US);
Zongjian Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Godfrey P. D'souza, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Fleischmann, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Keith Klayman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Lawrence, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Read, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameer Halepete, San Jose, CA (US);
H. Peter Anvin, San Jose, CA (US);
Zongjian Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Godfrey P. D'Souza, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Fleischmann, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Keith Klayman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Lawrence, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Read, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method for controlling the power used by a computer including the steps of measuring the operating characteristics of a central processor of the computer, determining when the operating characteristics of the central processor are significantly different than required by the operations being conducted, and changing the operating characteristics of the central processor to a level commensurate with the operations being conducted.