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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 02, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Keisuke Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/54 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4893 (2013.01); G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/329 (2013.01); G06F 9/3814 (2013.01); G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 9/3869 (2013.01); G06F 2209/483 (2013.01); Y02B 60/144 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides apparatus and methods to perform thermal management in a computing environment. In one embodiment, thermal attributes are associated with operations and/or processing components, and the operations are scheduled for processing by the components so that a thermal threshold is not exceeded. In another embodiment, hot and cool queues are provided for selected operations, and the processing components can select operations from the appropriate queue so that the thermal threshold is not exceeded.