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20100321883 | COMPUTING DEVICES HAVING FAIL-SAFE MECHANICAL SHUT-OFF SWITCH - In one embodiment, a computing device includes a circuit board having a heat-generating component and a mechanical shut-off switch configured to cut power to the heat-generating component when a temperature within the computing device rises above a threshold temperature. | 12-23-2010 |
20110007492 | Computing Devices Having Adjustable Keyboard Lights - An adjustable keyboard light including a light module that includes an internal light source, a retaining member that retains the light module in an initial closed position, and a release button that releases the light module such that the module can pivot outwardly to one of multiple open positions, the light module having a different orientation at each open position. | 01-13-2011 |
20110128719 | Computer With Integrated Light - A computer system is described herein. An embodiment of the computer system comprises a first portion comprising a keyboard and a second portion comprising a display. A light source is affixed to the computer, wherein the light source is maintainable in at least a first position and a second position. When the light source is in the first position, light emitted by the light source illuminates the keyboard, and when the light source is in the second position, light emitted by the light source illuminates a spatial region occupied by a user of the computer. | 06-02-2011 |
20120134098 | COMPUTING DEVICE THERMAL MODULE - A computing device and method have a thermal module ( | 05-31-2012 |
20130171858 | DETACHABLE LID - A method and apparatus for mounting a semiconductor is disclosed. First, the semiconductor is mounted into the bracket of a lid while the lid is detached from a frame. Once the semiconductor has been loaded into the lid/bracket assembly, the loaded lid is mounted onto the frame. The lid is then locked in place on the frame by rotating a locking lever into a closed locked position. | 07-04-2013 |
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20130322037 | SPRING LOADED LID - A method and apparatus for loading IC's into a socket lid is disclosed. The IC is first loaded into a lid. Once the IC has been loaded into the lid, the lid is rotated into a closed position on the frame. The lid is then locked in place on the frame by rotating at least one locking lever into a closed lacked position, where the locking lever forces the lid down against the socket contacts against a spring. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322983 | SYSTEM BOARD FASTENER - A fastener useable with a system board is provided herein. The fastener includes a fastener body and a spool. The fastener body has a mating member at one end and a threaded member at an opposite end. The mating member extends from the fastener body and positions the fastener body on a chassis. The spool engages with the threaded member of the fastener body and is secured to the chassis. | 12-05-2013 |
20130343830 | PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT RISER CAGE FASTENER - A fastener useable with a peripheral component interconnect riser cage is provided herein. The fastener includes a body, a rotation limiter, and a housing. The body includes an engagement end that engages with a receptacle on a sub-pan and a cap end that positions the body. The rotation limiter includes a receiving member and a positioning member. The receiving member couples with the body. The positioning member extends from the rotation limiter to limit rotation of the body coupled thereto. The housing receives the rotation limiter and the body. The housing includes a rotation aperture that receives a positioning member such that the rotation limiter is rotatable along the rotation aperture. The housing further includes a lateral aperture to receive the body such that the body is inserted through the lateral aperture and coupled to the rotation limiter. | 12-26-2013 |
20150027969 | RELEASE LATCH - A release latch apparatus can include a locking mechanism coupled to a first position of a rocker and a spring mechanism coupled to a second position of the rocker. | 01-29-2015 |
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20080256345 | Method and Apparatus for Conserving Power by Throttling Instruction Fetching When a Processor Encounters Low Confidence Branches in an Information Handling System - An information handling system includes a processor that throttles the instruction fetcher whenever the inaccuracy, or lack of confidence, in branch predictions for branch instructions stored in a branch instruction queue exceeds a predetermined threshold confidence level of inaccuracy or error. In this manner, fetch operations slow down to conserve processor power when it is likely that the processor will mispredict the outcome of branch instructions. Fetch operations return to full speed when it is likely that the processor will correctly predict the outcome of branch instructions. | 10-16-2008 |
20080275897 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AN IN-MEMORY PHYSICAL DICTIONARY FOR DATA COMPRESSION - Some aspects of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for creating an in-memory physical dictionary for data compression. To that end, in accordance with aspects of the present invention, a new heuristic is defined for converting each of the plurality of logical nodes into a corresponding physical node forming a plurality of physical nodes; then place each of the physical nodes into the physical dictionary while traversing the dictionary tree in descending visit count order. Each physical node is placed in its nearest ascendant's cache-line with sufficient space. If there is no space in any of the ascendant's cache-line, then the physical node is placed into a new cache-line, unless a pre-defined packing threshold has been reached, in which case the physical node is placed in the first available cache-line. | 11-06-2008 |
20080307210 | System and Method for Optimizing Branch Logic for Handling Hard to Predict Indirect Branches - A system and method for optimizing the branch logic of a processor to improve handling of hard to predict indirect branches are provided. The system and method leverage the observation that there will generally be only one move to the count register (mtctr) instruction that will be executed while a branch on count register (bcctr) instruction has been fetched and not executed. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, fetch logic detects that it has encountered a bcctr instruction that is hard to predict and, in response to this detection, blocks the target fetch from entering the instruction buffer of the processor. At this point, the fetch logic has fetched all the instructions up to and including the bcctr instruction but no target instructions. When the next mtctr instruction is executed, the branch logic of the processor grabs the data and starts fetching using that target address. Since there are no other target instructions that were fetched, no flush is needed if that target address is the correct address, i.e. the branch prediction is correct. | 12-11-2008 |
20090106538 | System and Method for Implementing a Hardware-Supported Thread Assist Under Load Lookahead Mechanism for a Microprocessor - The present invention includes a system and method for implementing a hardware-supported thread assist under load lookahead mechanism for a microprocessor. According to an embodiment of the present invention, hardware thread-assist mode can be activated when one thread of the microprocessor is in a sleep mode. When load lookahead mode is activated, the fixed point unit copies the content of one or more architected facilities from an active thread to corresponding architected facilities in the first inactive thread. The load-store unit performs at least one speculative load in load lookahead mode and writes the results of the at least one speculative load to a duplicated architected facility in the first inactive thread. | 04-23-2009 |