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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Seh W. Kwa, Saratoga, CA (US);
Neil Songer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rob Gough, Sherwood, OR (US);
David J. Harriman, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/3209 (2013.01); G06F 13/24 (2013.01); G06F 13/4221 (2013.01); G06F 13/4265 (2013.01);
Abstract
A host chipset heartbeat may be utilized, in some embodiments, to handle interrupts from external devices on a power efficient basis. The availability of the host chipset heartbeat may be signaled to external devices and those external devices may time their activities to a period of time when not only are resources available, but the assertion of the activity is advantageous because the host chipset is already transitioning from a lower power consumption state.