Management of a computing device usage profile

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025021386-A1
Application number	US-202418900059-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 27, 2024
Priority date	Feb 19, 2021
Publication date	Jan 16, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to management of a computing device usage profile are described. The usage profile can be a usage profile of a computing device. Characteristics of workloads executed by a computing device can be monitored to determine whether performance of the computing device can be optimized by execution of an updated usage profile. Responsive to a determination that the performance of the computing device can be improved by execution of an updated usage profile, the updated usage profile can be received by the computing device and executed thereon.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An apparatus, comprising:
a memory system; and a processing unit coupled to the memory device, wherein the processing unit is to:
write, to the memory device, a predetermined usage profile;
write instructions corresponding to an operational mode of the apparatus to the memory device, wherein the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the apparatus are based, at least in part, on characteristics of workloads executed by the processing unit based on the predetermined usage profile;
monitor characteristics of workloads executed by the processing unit subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the apparatus; and
update at least one of the predetermined usage profile or the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the apparatus, or both, based on the monitored characteristics of the workloads executed by the processing unit subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the apparatus.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is to perform operations to predict, based at least in part on the workloads executed by the processing unit subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the apparatus, or a determined aggregate usage profile accessible to the apparatus, or both, whether a change is to be made to the predetermined usage profile.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is to:
allocate a first portion of the memory device for use during operation of the apparatus when the apparatus is operating according to the predetermined usage profile; and responsive to an update of the predetermined usage profile, allocate a second portion of the memory device in addition to the first portion of the memory device for use during operation of the apparatus when the apparatus is operating according to the updated usage profile.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is to:
allocate a first portion of the memory device for use during operation of the apparatus; receive an instruction to open a second portion of the memory device for use during operation of the apparatus; and allocate the second portion of the memory device for use during operation of the apparatus in response to execution of the received instruction.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is to update the predetermined usage profile to one of a selectable number of usage profiles stored in the memory device.

6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit is to update the predetermined usage profile to one of a selectable number of usage profiles stored in a distributed computing system communicatively coupled to the apparatus.

7 . A method, comprising:
writing, by a processing unit coupled to a memory device resident on a computing device, a predetermined usage profile to the memory device; writing, by the processing unit, instructions corresponding to an operational mode of the computing device to the memory device resident on the computing device, wherein the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the computing device are based, at least in part, on characteristics of the workloads executed by the processing unit based on the predetermined usage profile; executing, by the processing unit, the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the computing device; monitoring, by the processing unit, characteristics of workloads executed by the processing unit subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the computing device; determining, by the processing unit, changes to the predetermined usage profile using the characteristics of workloads executed by the processing unit based on the predetermined usage profile or the characteristics of workloads executed by the processing unit subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the computing device, or both; and updating, by the processing unit, at least one of the predetermined usage profile or the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the computing device, or both.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising selecting the updated usage profile from a plurality of predetermined usage profiles written to the memory device of the computing device.

9 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising selecting the updated usage profile from a plurality of usage profiles determined for other computing devices communicatively coupled to a network accessible to the computing device.

10 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising executing, by the processing unit, one or more machine learning instructions written to the memory device as part of predicting changes to the predetermined usage profile using the characteristics of workloads executed by the processing unit based on the predetermined usage profile or the characteristics of workloads executed by the processing unit subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the operational mode of the computing device, or both.

11 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
allocating a first portion allocate a first portion of the memory device for use during operation of the computing device; receiving an instruction to open a second portion of the memory device for use during operation of the computing device; and allocating, by the processing unit, the second portion of the memory device for use during operation of the computing device in response to execution of the received instruction.

12 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the operational mode of the computing device is determined based, at least in part, on determined priorities of a user of the computing device.

13 . A system, comprising:
a distributed computing system comprising a pool of shared computing resources; and a plurality of computing devices communicatively coupled to the distributed computing system wherein each computing device of the plurality of computing devices comprises a processing unit and a memory device, wherein the processing unit is to:
write, to the memory device, a predetermined usage profile;
execute one or more workloads based on the predetermined usage profile;
write instructions corresponding to an optimized operational mode of the computing device to the memory device, wherein the instructions corresponding to the optimized operational mode of the computing device are based, at least in part, on characteristics of the executed workloads based on the predetermined usage profile;
monitor characteristics of one or more workloads executed subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the optimized operational mode of the computing device;
determine changes to the predetermined usage profile using the characteristics of the executed workloads based on the predetermined usage profile or the characteristics of the workloads executed subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the optimized operational mode of the computing device, or both; and
update at least one of the predetermined usage profile or the instructions corresponding to the optimized operational mode of the computing device, or both, based on the determined changes of the one or more workloads executed by the processing unit subsequent to execution of the instructions corresponding to the optimized operational mode of the computing device.

14 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the processing unit is to update the predetermined usage profile to one of a selectable number of usage p

Assignees

• Micron Technology Inc

Inventors

• Christensen Carla L
• Basu Reshmi

Classifications

• H04L67/535

  Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34) · CPC title

• G06F3/0673

  Single storage device · CPC title

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G06F11/3433

  for load management (allocation of a server based on load conditions G06F9/505; load rebalancing G06F9/5083; redistributing the load in a network by a load balancer H04L67/1029) · CPC title

• G06F11/3024

  where the computing system component is a central processing unit [CPU] · CPC title