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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:
Sep. 22, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2012
Applicants:

Rajagopal K. Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;

Sampath Dakshinamurthy, Bangalore, IN;

Sambaran Mitra, Barasat, IN;

Devadatta V. Bodas, Federal Way, WA (US);

Srikanth V. Nimmagadda, Bangalore, IN;

Inventors:

Rajagopal K. Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;

Sampath Dakshinamurthy, Bangalore, IN;

Sambaran Mitra, Barasat, IN;

Devadatta V. Bodas, Federal Way, WA (US);

Srikanth V. Nimmagadda, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/266 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1282 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques and mechanisms for managing a delivery of power to a resource of an input/output (I/O) interface. In an embodiment, a first link of a plurality of communication links is monitored. Of the plurality of links, a first set of resources of the I/O interface is to support communication only via the first link. One or more other resources of the I/O interface are for supporting communications of another link of the plurality of links. In another embodiment, a resource of the first set of resources is decoupled from a power supply in response to detecting a total number of active lanes of the first link, decoupling.


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