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Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2012
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

David G. Conroy, El Granada, CA (US);

Keith Alan Cox, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Michael Culbert, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for dynamically budgeting power usage in a data processing system. In one aspect, a data processing system, includes: one or more first components capable of being dynamically throttled to a plurality of different performance level settings; one or more second components; and one or more power usage sensors. The one or more power usage sensors are to determine information on power usage during a first time period of operation of the data processing system. The one or more first components and the one or more second components may include a computing element to determine one of the performance level settings of the one or more first components of the data processing system for a second time period subsequent to the first time period using the information on the power usage during the first time period.


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