Patent Document ID: 20100241892
Application ID: 12405607
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for intentionally allowing errors in a computational system to optimize energy consumption of the computational system, the method comprising: performing a cost-benefit analysis to identify one or more allowable errors and one or more non-allowable errors in the computational system, the allowable errors being identified by the cost-benefit analysis as being acceptable errors for optimizing energy consumption with respect to accuracy of the computational system, the non-allowable errors being identified by the cost-benefit analysis as being unacceptable errors for optimizing energy consumption with respect to accuracy of the computational system; and transforming the computational system from a first state in which the computational system corrects or prevents the allowable errors and the non-allowable errors into a second state in which the computational system allows the allowable errors and corrects or prevents the non-allowable errors.