Patent ID: 7424632

Claim:
A system that facilitates state machine power management, comprising: a state management component that receives at least one signal that is directed to a state machine, the state management component evaluates the signal to ascertain whether at least one of a coprocessor or the state machine services the signal based in part on determined processing requirements of the signal, the evaluation includes intelligent analysis comprising at least one of a rule base or employ at least one of statistics, inferences, probabilities, classifiers, decision tree learning methods, support vector machines, linear and non-linear regression or neural networks to facilitate decision-making, the state management component determines if the state machine should continue receiving signals after the state machine is invoked to service a signal based in part on the intelligent analysis; the coprocessor services the signal in order to provide a timely response to the signal and facilitates state machine power management without transitioning the state machine to a high power state if determined that the coprocessor can completely service the received signal based on the evaluation; and the state machine services the signal upon evaluation that the coprocessor cannot service the signal without transitioning the state machine to the high power state.