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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:
Mar. 31, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 23, 2012
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alex K. Tu, San Diego, CA (US);

Thomas A. Morison, San Diego, CA (US);

Hee-Jun Park, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G06F 1/329 (2013.01); G06F 1/3293 (2013.01); Y02B 60/121 (2013.01); Y02B 60/144 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1275 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments of methods and systems for mode-based reallocation of workloads in a portable computing device ('PCD') that contains a heterogeneous, multi-processor system on a chip ('SoC') are disclosed. Because individual processing components in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC may exhibit different performance capabilities or strengths, and because more than one of the processing components may be capable of processing a given block of code, mode-based reallocation systems and methodologies can be leveraged to optimize quality of service (“QoS”) by allocating workloads in real time, or near real time, to the processing components most capable of processing the block of code in a manner that meets the performance goals of an operational mode. Operational modes may be determined by the recognition of one or more mode-decision conditions in the PCD.


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