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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:
Aug. 12, 2014

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2012
Applicants:

Qiong Cai, Barcelona, ES;

José González, Barcelona, ES;

Pedro Chappero Monferrer, Barcelona, ES;

Grigorios Magklis, Barcelona, ES;

Antonio González, Barcelona, ES;

Inventors:

Qiong Cai, Barcelona, ES;

José González, Barcelona, ES;

Pedro Chappero Monferrer, Barcelona, ES;

Grigorios Magklis, Barcelona, ES;

Antonio González, Barcelona, ES;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system to selectively move one or more of a plurality threads which are executing in parallel by a plurality of processing cores. In one embodiment, a thread may be moved from executing in one of the plurality of processing cores to executing in another of the plurality of processing cores, the moving based on a performance characteristic associated with the plurality of threads. In another embodiment of the invention, a power state of the plurality of processing cores may be changed to improve a power efficiency associated with the executing of the multiple threads.


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