Platform communication protocol

Details Platform communication protocol Platform communication protocol

2007-03-28

2010-11-09

Suryawanshi, Suresh K (Department: 2115)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Computer power control

By external command

C713S330000, C710S008000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07831849

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.

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