×

Energy optimization through intentional errors

  • US 8,112,649 B2
  • Filed: 03/17/2009
  • Issued: 02/07/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2009
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A method for intentionally allowing errors in a computational system to optimize energy consumption of the computational system, the method comprising:

  • performing a cost-benefit analysis to identify one or more allowable errors and one or more non-allowable errors in the computational system, the allowable errors being identified by the cost-benefit analysis as being acceptable errors for optimizing energy consumption with respect to accuracy of the computational system, the non-allowable errors being identified by the cost-benefit analysis as being unacceptable errors for optimizing energy consumption with respect to accuracy of the computational system; and

    transforming the computational system from a first state in which the computational system corrects or prevents the allowable errors and the non-allowable errors into a second state in which the computational system allows the allowable errors and corrects or prevents the non-allowable errors.

View all claims
  • 6 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×