Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for intelligent adjustment of an immersive multimedia workload in a portable computing device (“PCD”), such as a virtual reality (“VR”) or augmented reality (“AR”) workload. An exemplary embodiment monitors one or more performance indicators comprising a motion to photon latency associated with the immersive multimedia workload. Performance parameters associated with thermally aggressive processing components are adjusted to reduce demand for power while ensuring that the motion to photon latency is and/or remains optimized. Performance parameters that may be adjusted include, but are not limited to including, eye buffer resolution, eye buffer MSAA, timewarp CAC, eye buffer FPS, display FPS, timewarp output resolution, textures LOD, 6DOF camera FPS, and fovea size.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for proactive power and performance management of workloads in a portable computing device (“PCD”), such as, but not limited to, a virtual reality (“VR”) or augmented reality (“AR”) workload. An exemplary embodiment determines that a target application (or an application queued for execution) is compatible with a proactive throttling policy. Advantageously, for those applications that are compatible with a proactive throttling policy, embodiments of the solution may rely on historical performance data of those applications to preset performance parameters such that the PCD may deliver a consistent user experience over time uninterrupted by fluctuations in processing performance resulting from reactive thermal throttling policies.

Abstract: A new scheduling discipline is disclosed for the forward link of a wireless network such as a CDMA network. The new discipline, which we denominate Modified LWDF (M-LWDF), resembles the known LWDF discipline in that only one queue is served at a time, and the queue to be served is that having the largest weighted delay.