Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Temperature measuring system
Patent
1998-03-31
2000-08-29
Assouad, Patrick
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system
Temperature measuring system
713300, G05D 2300
Patent
active
061121649
ABSTRACT:
A thermal management technique for a computer system having a thermal device and a timer includes establishing a thermal window having low and high temperature thresholds, causing the timer to generate an interrupt at a specified interval, and processing the interrupt. During interrupt processing, if the thermal device indicates the current temperature is outside the established thermal window, the thermal window is adjusted by resetting the low and high temperature thresholds to bracket the current temperature and then notifying the operating system that a thermal event has occurred.
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Assouad Patrick
Compaq Computer Corporation
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