Patent 7100061 was granted and assigned to Transmeta on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for controlling the power used by a computer including the steps of measuring the operating characteristics of a central processor of the computer, determining when the operating characteristics of the central processor are significantly different than required by the operations being conducted, and changing the operating characteristics of the central processor to a level commensurate with the operations being conducted.