Patent ID: 9377844
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: maintaining a threshold value, wherein the threshold value indicates a period of time; determining that a processor is in any one of a plurality of low power consumption states by reading a first value corresponding to one of the low power consumption states, reading a second value corresponding to a current power consumption state, and comparing the first value and the second value; responsive to determining that the processor is in any one of the plurality of low power consumption states, incrementing a counter, wherein the counter indicates the period of time the processor has been in any one of the plurality of low power consumption states; determining that the counter value is equal to or greater than the threshold value; and responsive to determining that the counter value is equal to or greater than the threshold value, sending a first indication to a memory module indicating to the memory module to reduce the memory module refresh rate.