Patent ID: 8612780

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: network controller circuitry to be comprised, at least in part, in a host computer, the circuitry being to determine, at least in part, based at least in part upon at least one comparison, whether at least one power management action is to be initiated, the at least one comparison being to compare, at least in part, at least one pattern with at least one portion of at least one packet received, at least in part, by the host computer, the at least one power management action including modification, at least in part, of at least one power management configuration of the host computer, the at least one power management configuration being enabled, at least in part, prior to the modification, the modification being to accommodate, at least in part, at least one packet processing latency policy associated, at least in part, with the at least one pattern; the modification resulting, at least in part, in enablement, at least in part, of at least one other power management configuration of the host computer; and while the at least one power management configuration is enabled, at least in part, the circuitry is to store received packet traffic for later processing when the at least one other power management configuration is enabled, at least in part.