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Techniques for communications power management based on system states

  • US 8,156,353 B2
  • Filed: 09/11/2008
  • Issued: 04/10/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a communications sub-system having a control policy module, a controller and a first transceiver capable of operating at different communications rates, the control policy module operative to receive computing power state information and communications state information, compare the computing power state information and the communications state information against one or more control policies programmed for the control policy module, determine a communications rate parameter for the first transceiver based on the comparing of the computing power state information and the communications state information, instruct the controller to modify a communications rate for the first transceiver based on the communications rate parameter,receive a computing power state parameter with the computing power state information, and determine the communications state parameter for the first transceiver based on the computing power state parameter and the communications state information,the communications state information comprises a network link utilization parameter.

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