POWER SAVING TECHNIQUES IN COMPUTING DEVICES

• Main Authors: KUMAR Vanitha Aravamudhan, SUKUMAR Hariharan, DANAILA Andrei, MAHESHWARI Shailesh, KUMAR Vaibhav, KLACAR Neven, BABBAR Uppinder Singh, PIUS Roshan, KAUSHIK Vinod Harimohan, MITRA Alok, KRISHNAMURTHY Arunn Coimbatore, KRISHNAMOORTHY Muralidhar Coimbatore
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Slovenian
• Published: 30.10.2019
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include power saving techniques in computing devices. In particular, as data is received by a modem processor in a computing device, the data is held until the expiration of a modem timer. The data is then passed to an application processor in the computing device over a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) interconnectivity bus. On receipt of the data from the modem processor, the application processor sends data held by the application processor to the modem processor over the PCIe interconnectivity bus. The application processor also has an uplink timer. If no data is received from the modem processor before expiration of the uplink timer, the application processor sends any collected data to the modem processor at expiration of the uplink timer. However, if data is received from the modem processor, the uplink timer is reset.