Various methods and apparatuses for power states in a controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9052893-B2
Application number	US-63254809-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2009
Priority date	Jun 30, 2005
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

Various methods, apparatuses, and systems are described in which a chipset controller has circuitry to control communications with a peripheral device in a computing device. The chipset controller has logic configured 1) to detect a plug-in event when the peripheral device connects to the chipset controller and 2) to transition the chipset controller from a low power consumption state to a higher power consumption state based on the logic detecting the plug-in event.

First claim

We claim:

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a chipset controller having:
circuitry to control communications with a peripheral device in a computing device;
logic to detect a plug-in event when the peripheral device connects to the chipset controller and to transition the chipset controller from a first power consumption state to a second power consumption state based on detecting the plug-in event, wherein the first power consumption state is a lower power consumption state than th…

Assignees

• Kardach James P
• Cooper Barnes
• Kwa Seh
• Mishra Animesh
• Diefenbaugh Paul
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Kardach James P
• Cooper Barnes
• Kwa Seh
• Mishra Animesh
• Diefenbaugh Paul

Classifications

• G06F1/3203 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F1/325

  Physics · mapped topic