Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090089470 | INTERRUPT BALANCING FOR MULTI-CORE AND POWER - A method and apparatus for balancing power savings and performance in handling interrupts is herein described. When an amount of interrupt activity is above a threshold, a performance mode of interrupt handling is selected. During the performance mode, interrupts and/or interrupt sources are distributed among multiple physical sockets, i.e. multiple physical processors. However, if the interrupt activity is below a threshold for a number of periods, which denotes low interrupt activity, then a power save mode is selected. Here, interrupts and/or sources are primarily assigned to a single processor to allow other physical processors to save power. Furthermore, after interrupts are assigned to a physical processor, the interrupts may be further distributed among cache domains of the processor. In addition, high activity classes, interrupt sources, interrupts, or categories may be further assigned to specific processing elements for servicing. | 04-02-2009 |
20100169681 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION OF ACTIVE WEB PAGE CONTENT - A method and system for reducing power consumption of active web page content includes identifying those threads associated with active advertisement components of the web page and synchronizing the wakeup periods of such threads such that the total number of wakeups over a given period is reduced. | 07-01-2010 |
20100268927 | Booting An Operating System Of A System Using A Read Ahead Technique - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for generating a list of files accessed during an operating system (OS) boot process to profile the OS boot process, and optimizing the list of files to generate an optimized file list for use in future OS boot processes, where the optimizing is according to a first optimization technique if the files were accessed from a solid state medium and according to a second optimization technique if the files were accessed from a rotating medium. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-21-2010 |
20110153867 | DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM LOOKUP LATENCY REDUCTION - A technique to reduce the latency of a remote DNS lookup operation is disclosed. More specifically, a machine-readable medium, method, device, and system are described that scan a document when it is retrieved from the Internet. The scan takes place for one or more patterns, where each pattern denotes an Internet host name. The technique then asynchronously causes an Internet Domain Name System (DNS) server to translate each Internet host name pattern discovered from the document scan to an associated Internet Protocol (IP) address. The technique then asynchronously stores each translated IP address in a local DNS cache. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161981 | USING PER TASK TIME SLICE INFORMATION TO IMPROVE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE STATE SELECTION - Methods and apparatus for using per task time slice information to improve dynamic performance state selection are described. In one embodiment, a new performance state is selected for a process based on one or more previous execution time slice values of the process. Other embodiments are also described. | 06-30-2011 |
20110225412 | BOOTING AN OPERATING SYSTEM OF A SYSTEM USING A READ AHEAD TECHNIQUE - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for generating a list of files accessed during an operating system (OS) boot process to profile the OS boot process, and optimizing the list of files to generate an optimized file list for use in future OS boot processes, where the optimizing is according to a first optimization technique if the files were accessed from a solid state medium and according to a second optimization technique if the files were accessed from a rotating medium. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-15-2011 |
20110314315 | Method and System for Reducing Power Consumption of Active Web Page Content - A method and system for reducing power consumption of active web page content includes synchronizing the wakeup periods of threads associated with active advertisement components of a web page. | 12-22-2011 |
20120324403 | METHOD OF INFERRING NAVIGATIONAL INTENT IN GESTURAL INPUT SYSTEMS - In a processing system having a touch screen display, a method of inferring navigational intent by a user in a gestural input system of the processing system is disclosed. A graphical user interface may receive current gestural input data for an application of the processing system from the touch screen display. The graphical user interface may generate an output action based at least in part on an analysis of one or more of the current gestural input data, past gestural input data for the application, and current and past context information of usage of the processing system. The graphical user interface may cause performance of the output action. | 12-20-2012 |
20130159596 | TECHNIQUES FOR MEMORY DE-DUPLICATION IN A VIRTUAL SYSTEM - Techniques for memory de-duplication in a virtual system are described. An apparatus may comprise a first processor circuit coupled to a second processor circuit. A memory unit may be coupled to the first processor circuit and the second processor circuit, the memory unit to store private memory pages and shared memory pages for multiple virtual machines. A memory management application may be operative on the first processor circuit and the second processor circuit in a shared manner to perform memory de-duplication operations on the private memory pages stored in the memory unit to form shared memory pages. The memory management application may perform sequential memory de-duplication operations on the first processor circuit, and parallel memory de-duplication operations on the second processor circuit. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-20-2013 |
20130282365 | ADAPTING LANGUAGE USE IN A DEVICE - In several non-English languages and cultures, such as Dutch and German, there is a formal and informal language form used to address a person. A device having a user interface is adapted for use with both formal and informal language. A user's preferred language form can change over time, and is determined directly or indirectly from characteristics of the user based on their use of the device, including how long the device has been used, a role of the user and/or his or her location. Another way of determining the characteristics of the user is to monitor the user's online behavior, including such data as social networking traffic, web sites visited, email and chat use, and the like. An application's user interface can be dynamically changed to use the current preferred language form. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290645 | TECHNIQUES TO PRELINK SOFTWARE TO IMPROVE MEMORY DE-DUPLICATION IN A VIRTUAL SYSTEM - Techniques to prelink software to improve memory de-duplication in a virtual system are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a memory unit coupled to the processor circuit to store private memory pages for multiple virtual machines, and a dynamic linker application operative on the processor circuit to link a binary version of a software program with associated program modules at run-time of the binary version on a virtual machine. The dynamic linker application may comprise a master prelink component operative on the processor circuit to relocate a first set of program modules for a first binary version of the software program for a first virtual machine using a first set of virtual memory addresses from a first private memory page allocated to the first virtual machine, and store relocation information for the first set of program modules in a global prelink layout map for use by a second virtual machine. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-31-2013 |
20140006335 | APPLICATION-PROVIDED CONTEXT FOR POTENTIAL ACTION PREDICTION | 01-02-2014 |
20140006599 | PROBABILITIES OF POTENTIAL ACTIONS BASED ON SYSTEM OBSERVATIONS | 01-02-2014 |
20140006623 | PERFORMANCE OF PREDICTED ACTIONS | 01-02-2014 |
20140092755 | REDUCING WIRELESS RECONNECTION TIME OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Technologies for reducing connection time to a wireless access point includes recording wireless connection information in a log, computing parameters as a function of past wireless connection information in the log, generating an ordered list of wireless access points most likely to be available for reconnection at a desired time as a function of recent wireless connection information in the log, and directly probing a wireless access point instead of initiating a wireless access point scan. In some embodiments, computing parameters as a function of past wireless connection information in the log comprises performing genetic programming operations to generate prediction programs for later prediction of wireless access points most likely to be available for reconnection at a desired time. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092805 | MIXED OFF-SITE/ON-SITE PREDICTION COMPUTATION FOR REDUCING WIRELESS RECONNECTION TIME OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method, system, and device for reducing connection time to a wireless access point includes recording wireless connection information in a log, remotely computing parameters as a function of past wireless connection information in the log, generating an ordered list of wireless access points most likely to be available for reconnection at a desired time as a function of recent wireless connection information in the log, and directly probing a wireless access point instead of initiating a wireless access point scan. In some embodiments, remotely computing parameters as a function of past wireless connection information in the log comprises performing genetic programming operations to generate prediction programs for later prediction of wireless access points most likely to be available for reconnection at a desired time. | 04-03-2014 |
20140298461 | DISTRIBUTED TRAFFIC PATTERN ANALYSIS AND ENTROPY PREDICTION FOR DETECTING MALWARE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Technologies are provided in embodiments to detect malware. The embodiments are configured to receive an entropy rate of a potentially affected system. The embodiments are further configured to compare the entropy rate to an average entropy rate, and to determine a probability that the potentially affected system is infected with malware. The probability is based, at least in part, on a result of the comparison. More specific embodiments can include the received entropy rate being generated, at a least in part, by a genetic program. Additional embodiments can include a configuration to provide the potentially affected system with a specified time-span associated with the genetic program. The specified time-span indicates an amount of time to observe context information on the potentially affected system. In at least some embodiments, the result of the comparison includes an indicator of whether the entropy rate correlates to an infected system or a healthy system. | 10-02-2014 |