| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7595796 |
Optimizing lifetime of a display |
September 29, 2009 |
| A lifetime of a display is optimized by determining whether to control at least a portion of a display based on a lifetime metric. A plurality of display control options is identified in response to determining to control the portion of the display, and one of the display control opt |
| 7546475 |
Power-aware adaptation in a data center |
June 9, 2009 |
| A data center is disclosed with power-aware adaptation that minimizes the performance impact of reducing the power consumption of individual nodes in the data center. A data center according to the present techniques includes a request redirector that obtains an access request for data |
| 7437438 |
System and method for energy efficient data prefetching |
October 14, 2008 |
| A computer system uses a prefetch prediction model having energy usage parameters to predict the impact of prefetching specified files on the system's energy usage. A prefetch prediction engine utilizes the prefetch prediction model to evaluate the specified files with respect to prefetc |
| 7366921 |
Selecting input/output devices to control power consumption of a computer system |
April 29, 2008 |
| Input/output (I/O) devices may be controlled to reduce power consumption of a computer system. A power consumption metric for the I/O devices connected to the computer system is determined. At least one of the I/O devices is selected based on the determined power consumption metric, and |
| 7269753 |
Mapping power system components |
September 11, 2007 |
| Power system components are mapped using a controller and a data collection system. The controller is operable to transmit a first power system component ID for the first power system component to a second power system component, wherein the second power system component receives pow |
| 7236896 |
Load management in a power system |
June 26, 2007 |
| Load demands in a power system are managed by determining whether load demands on one or more power system components need to be varied. If the load demands need to be varied, new load demands to be placed on the power system components are determined. The load demands on the power s |
| 7127625 |
Application management based on power consumption |
October 24, 2006 |
| A plurality of computer systems is operable to execute an application. A power consumption is determined for a first computer system if the first computer system were to execute the application, and a power consumption is determined for at least one other computer system if the second |
| 7093147 |
Dynamically selecting processor cores for overall power efficiency |
August 15, 2006 |
| A computer system for conserving operating power includes a number of computer hardware processor cores that differ amongst themselves in at least in their respective operating power requirements and processing capabilities. A monitor gathers performance metric information from each |
| 7072739 |
Data center robotic device |
July 4, 2006 |
| A method for operating a data center with a robotic device. In the method, a condition is detected in a location of the data center. The robotic device, which includes a camera and a manipulator, is maneuvered to travel to the location of the data center. The location of the data cen |
| 7003640 |
Power-aware adaptation in an information server |
February 21, 2006 |
| An information server with power-aware adaptation that enables power reduction while minimizing the performance impact of power reduction. An information server according to the present techniques includes a transaction prioritizer that determines which of a set of memory subsystems |
| 6912664 |
Energy-aware software-controlled plurality of displays |
June 28, 2005 |
| Energy-aware software control in a computer system requires a plurality of displays. At least two of the displays have diverse attributes that enable reduction in the energy consumption of the computer system. The energy-aware software control involves profiling screen usage patterns and |
| 6801811 |
Software-directed, energy-aware control of display |
October 5, 2004 |
| A method and system for reducing energy consumption of a display in a computer system. The method includes profiling screen usage patterns and the impact of the screen usage patterns on energy consumption by the display; deriving an energy model based on the screen usage patterns; de |
