Patent ID: 9274805
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for thermally aware booting in a personal portable computing device (“PCD”), the method comprising: initiating a boot sequence for a component within the PCD; polling a sensor in the PCD during the boot sequence for the component within the PCD for a measurement of a thermal indicator, wherein the sensor is associated with the component; comparing the polled measurement to a predetermined threshold; determining whether the polled measurement exceeds the predetermined threshold; and if the polled measurement exceeds the predetermined threshold, delaying the boot sequence for the component within the PCD and reducing the boot performance level to one of a plurality of preset performance levels that will not cause the PCD to exceed a predetermined thermal threshold, the preset performance level corresponding to the severity of the measured temperature of the PCD component exceeding the threshold.