37results about "Energy efficient ICT" patented technology

A server management apparatus for lowering migration costs during scale-in/scale-out and workload consolidation of a cluster system(s) to thereby reduce power consumption is disclosed. The apparatus manages a physical server group which renders operative a virtual server group thereon and, when putting into practice a cluster system including a plurality of virtual servers placed in the physical server group, manages the layout state of virtual servers pursuant to the load state of the virtual server group. When executing scale-in, a virtual server operating on a physical server with the minimum number of operative virtual servers is specified as a shutdown target. When executing scale-out, a workload variation is predicted to control a scale-out destination of cluster system so that load variation-resembled cluster systems gather on the same physical server. The scale-in execution timing is delayed if the predicted load variation tends to rise and accelerated if it falls.

A management system for managing a plurality of computers and a plurality of pieces of software in a computer center includes: a selection data storage part for storing data regarding allocation destination selection, the data including at least either one of operation data and temperature data, wherein the operation data represent states of execution of the pieces of software by the computers, respectively, and temperature data represent temperature distribution in the computers; an instruction generation part for extracting an overheated computer that is assumed to emit more heat as compared with the other computers, and a less-heated computer that is assumed to emit less heat as compared with the other computers, by using the data regarding allocation destination selection, and generating an instruction for relocating at least a part of a piece of software allocated to the overheated computer to the less-heated computer; and an instruction part for outputting the instruction. This makes it possible to save energy for cooling the computers.

A radio communication apparatus includes a receiving section, a power supply section and a control section. The receiving section receives a radio signal when electric power is supplied, and the radio signal has a preamble field for storing a preamble pattern. The power supply section supplies the electrical power to the receiving section and stopping the supply of the electrical power in response to a supply stop signal. The control section generates the supply stop signal when presence of the preamble pattern can not be detected from the radio signal received by the receiving section, in a state in which a frame synchronization is established.

Disclosed is an apparatus for a data storage library comprising at least one of a plurality of docking stations adapted to receive a disc drive magazine wherein the magazine comprises a plurality of disc drives. The docking station is adapted to receive the disc drive magazine via a loading device capable of automatically engaging the magazine with the at least one docking station to establish a communication link between the magazine and the at least one docking station. A retaining device is adapted to retain the magazine when engaged with the at least one docking station and when the magazine is in at least an active state. The library comprises at least one interface that is adapted to establish a communication link capable of transferring data between at least one data consumer and the library. The disc drive magazine when linked with the at least one docking station is capable of storing data received by the at least one data consumer. The magazine is capable of changing from a fully active state to at least one quiescent state when storage operations as performed by the magazine requires less than a fully active magazine.

A terminal device includes a display unit having at least a first display area and a second display area, a detection unit configured to detect a viewing state in which the first display area and/or the second display area are being viewed, and a control unit configured to, when a predetermined application is executed, perform control on the basis of the viewing state detected by the detection unit, for switching between a state in which display is performed on either one of the first display area and the second display area and display is not performed on the other one of the first display area and the second display area and a state in which display is performed on both the first display area and the second display area. A method and computer program storage device holding computer readable instructions cooperate to form a system that performs these functions.

A method, apparatus, and computer program product for using a multi-core integrated circuit having cores with differing performance characteristics. The cores are arranged into high and low performance groups and tasks are assigned according to their priority to either a high or low performance group.

The invention relates to an anti-theft method for a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring current position information by using the mobile terminal; judging whether the safety level of the mobile terminal changes according to the current position information; when the safety level of the mobile terminal changes, setting the working state of an anti-theft device according to the changed safety level of the mobile terminal; and performing corresponding anti-theft operation according to the working state by using the anti-theft device. The invention also provides a corresponding anti-theft system for the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal and the anti-theft device. An anti-theft working state is adjusted dynamically by detecting the region where the mobile terminal is positioned so that the problem of single anti-theft setting in the prior art is solved. An anti-theft function can be closed in a safety region so as to save energy; and a non-safe region ensures in-time anti-theft alarming.

The present invention is applicable to the technical field of mobile terminals, and provides a mobile phone and a power saving method for the mobile phone in the sleep mode. By adding a three-dimensional spatial acceleration sensor inside the mobile phone, the acceleration information of the three-dimensional space of the mobile phone in the sleep mode is collected and calculated. And judging the state of the mobile phone in the sleep mode, according to the different state of the mobile phone, adjust the wake-up interval value of the mobile phone state, so that the mobile phone standby time is different with the change of the wake-up interval value set; the sensor used in the present invention The price is low, the software and hardware design of the system is simple, and the three-dimensional spatial acceleration sensor is used to judge the static time of the mobile phone, which can optimize the standby current of the mobile phone in sleep mode and achieve the effect of prolonging the standby time of the mobile phone, which has broad market prospects.

A system and method are provided for in-network power management of network-connected devices. A first computing device, having a power management module, is able to access an in-network computing device table stored in a local memory, of network-connected computing devices cross-referenced to computing device processing capabilities. The power management module retrieves processing capabilities from the in-network computing device table for a network-connected second computing device, and sends a Wake-on-Local Area Network (LAN) message to the second computing device. Subsequently, the power management module sends a server-on-cloud power management message (power management packet) to the second computing device, with instructions for enabling capabilities related to processing or memory management.

A mobile station power saving method comprises that a mobile station is switched from a low-power mode to an active mode and sends inquiry frame to the access point; the access point sends inquiry confirmation frame to the mobile station after receiving the inquiry frame and starts to timing; the access point judges whether any data needs to be sent to the mobile station; if any, the access point sends the data to the mobile station in the scheduled time; the mobile station enters into low-power mode after receiving all the data sent by the access point. The invention also discloses a mobile station power saving system by using the mobile station power saving method. The mobile station power saving system and the power saving method in the invention reduces the time of the mobile station entering the low-power mode and thus reducing the mobile station energy consumption, as each time the mobile station is connected with the access point, the access point sends data frame or frame without data indicated to the mobile station in the shortest time as is prescribed.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, and discloses an incoming phonecall switching method and a communication terminal. The method comprises the following steps: detecting whether the communication terminal is at using state or mobile state; if the communication terminal is at using state or mobile state, sending a control instruction to a bound terminal of the communication terminal to switch the incoming phonecall or message of the bound terminal to the communication terminal. Through the embodiment of the invention, the incoming phonecall can be switched timely, and the waiting time for switching the incoming phone call is shortened.

The invention discloses an agricultural wireless sensor network system. The agricultural wireless sensor network system mainly comprises a sensor network and a cloud storage network, wherein the sensor network mainly comprises terminal nodes, routing nodes and a coordinator, the sensor network protocol forwards data of the terminal nodes between the routing nodes, the terminal nodes are powered by batteries, and the terminal nodes and the routing nodes enter the total power dissipation mode during data transmission and receiving and shift to the sleep mode after completion of the data transmission and receiving; and the cloud storage network comprises a cloud storage server, cloud monitor software and sensor monitor software. By adopting the agricultural wireless sensor network system, the data of the terminal nodes can reach to the objective nodes through different paths, so that power consumption is lowered, and cloud storage networks using clustering technology design have good scalability.

Provided is a method of controlling a network system. In the method, it is determined whether a communication modem of an electric product is operable by transmitting a signal between the communication modem and a component. If the communication modem is operable for communication with the component, an operation of the electric product is controlled based on power information received through the communication modem.

The invention discloses a sensor network positioning method based on hop counts. In a wireless sensor network, communication distances of all nodes are the same, one node only receives information of other nodes within limited hop counts, and a non-linear equation set is constructed by utilizing the ratio of the hop counts from different anchor nodes to unknown nodes, so that the unknown nodes are positioned. By means of distributed calculating and processing, node information exchange times are decreased, information conflict and network node power consumption are reduced, positioning precision of the unknown nodes is improved, and the method has a certain application value and is capable of meeting the requirement on high-precision distributed positioning of the wireless sensor network.

A method for measuring a carrier in a deactivated state. The method includes receiving a configuration mode that does not take effect immediately by a user terminal (UE). If a deactivation control signal for a carrier is received by the UE or if a carrier timer of the UE expires, then the method includes switching the carrier from an activated state to a deactivated state, and measuring the carrier in deactivated state by the UE. Alternatively, if an activation control signal for a carrier in the deactivated state that is being measured is received by the UE, the method includes terminating measurement of the carrier in the deactivated state by the UE. Through controllable deactivated carrier measurement, the UE reduces battery power consumption and improves system performance. Embodiments also include an apparatus for measuring a carrier in deactivated state, a base station, and computer-readable storage medium for

The invention discloses a mobile communication base station energy efficiency evaluation method and a mobile communication base station energy efficiency evaluation system. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring the energy efficiency data of a base station, wherein the energy efficiency data comprises an energy consumption coefficient, a temperature coefficient and a base station operation parameter; and analyzing the energy consumption coefficient, the temperature coefficient and the base station operation parameter and acquiring an energy efficiency index. In the invention, a theoretical basis is provided for the energy conservation and emission reduction of the base station; meanwhile, accordingly, mobile operators can select optimal energy-saving base station and energy-saving technique according to environments per se to improve the operation efficiency and reduce the energy consumption of the base station.

The invention provides a miniature low-power consumption comprehensive kernel processor based on avionics full duplex switched Ethernet (AFDX), which mainly solves the problems that the existing processor is low in integrated degree and reliability and poor in maintenance and indemnificatory performance and comprises a data processing module used in task computing, data integration, system control and management and bus communication, a network support module for high-speed data transmission among all modules of the kernel processor and between the modules and a front end sensor and a power source module for supplying power to the modules. The kernel processor has capability in processing of data, signals, graphs and videos and high-capacity memory power, simultaneously has high-speed network communication capacity, system tolerance reconstitution capacity and has the advantages of being good in performance, light in weight, small in volume, low in power consumption and the like.

The invention discloses a consolidated laptop computer and the cooling system thereof, which comprises a sealed computer shell which is internally provided with a computer system; a radiator one end of which is embedded inside the shell and the other end of which is arranged outside the shell, the contacting edge between the radiator and the shell is sealed so as to ensure the sealing condition of the computer system inside the shell, the end of the radiator arranged inside the shell is contacted with the surface of a CPU through a heat-conducting medium, the other end of the radiator arranged outside the shell is provided with a plurality of cooling fins; and a fan which is arranged on the cooling fins. The invention arranges the radiator and the fan inside the back shell, so the air flow of the heat removal system is separated with the sealing space of the computer system, an air cooling system is used for radiating to meet the radiating requirement of the CPU with a high power consumption in the consolidated laptop computer on the premise of meeting the requirement of waterproof, dust-free and reliability of the consolidated laptop computer.

This electronic apparatus includes a plurality of functional blocks, a storage portion storing and accumulating use states of the plurality of functional blocks, and a control portion. The control portion is configured to perform control of disconnecting power supplied to a functional block whose usage rate is not more than a prescribed usage rate, tending to be disused, of the plurality of functional blocks in a state where power is supplied to at least one functional block.

An information processing device has a data recording medium accessor, into which a data recording medium is inserted. The data recording medium has first and second operation modes. The information processing device accesses the data recording medium to execute an access type selected by a user in an operation mode having a faster communication speed. If the access to the data recording medium has failed and if the selected access type is a collective data exchange, the information processing device selects a fastest communication speed out of communication speeds at which there is a possibility that data is correctly exchanged in the first operation mode and the second operation mode, and accesses the data recoding medium again. If the access to the data recording medium has failed and if the selected access type is not a collective data exchange, the information processing device reduces the communication speed in the current operation mode, and accesses the data recording medium again.

In an electronic device provided with a resume function, a timer outputs a predetermined signal if a measured time value becomes a set time. Upon receiving the predetermined signal from the timer, a state control unit executes a resume process. A time information receiving unit receives time information that specifies a time interval, at which an application executes a predetermined process. A time interval retaining unit retains a time interval T for restoring the application to an executable state. A defining unit registers a set time with the timer on the basis of the received time information and the time interval T.

A cellular phone includes an inner loop portion and an outer loop portion both for conducting power control. The outer loop portion includes a timer counter. The timer counter transmits a timing signal to a communication quality comparing section when a set length of time elapses. The communication quality comparing section compares a block error rate (BLER) of received data with a target BLER even when a predetermined amount of data has not been received. When the BLER of the received data is equal to or higher than the target BLER, a target signal to interference power ratio (SIR) is decreased. Accordingly, the cellular phone can decrease the target SIR even when the amount of the received data is small, and no request for an unnecessarily high transmission power is made to a base station.

A group of sensors use power line communication (PLC) technology to collect power usage information and enable power management and control, as well as provide local area networking. The sensors include an intelligent master sensor and one or more slave devices, such as a communication and power management sensor and a power control switch sensor. The master collects and compiles power usage data from the slaves and communicates this data via the web or other communication means to the outside world. The master also receives and distributes instructions for controlling power usage via associated switches in the home or office. These sensors provide integrated sensing and control of home power usage and power management and establish a LAN that has communication capability and that supports streaming media delivery.

A system and method for dynamic power control for energy efficient physical layer communication devices. Energy-efficiency features are continually being developed to conserve energy in links between such energy-efficient devices. These energy-efficient devices interoperate with many legacy devices that have already been deployed. In these links, energy savings can be produced by having a local receiver enter an energy saving state based upon the receipt of standard IDLE signals.