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US 10,234,835 B2Granted
Management of computing devices using modulated electricity
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsJie Liu, Brian Janous, Gregory Joseph McKnight, Sean James, Ricardo Bianchini
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Abstract
This document relates to management of computing devices using modulated electricity. One example includes assigning a set of time slices to a computing device for drawing electricity and subsequently causing the computing device to adjust consumption of the electricity by assigning a different set of time slices to the computing device.
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A system comprising:
- a filter configured to:
- receive mixed-frequency electricity having green electricity generated by a renewable power source mixed with brown electricity generated by a carbon fuel source, the green electricity being modulated at a first alternating current frequency and the brown electricity being modulated at a second alternating current frequency, and
- attenuate the second alternating current frequency of the mixed-frequency electricity to obtain filtered green electricity that is predominantly of the first alternating current frequency;
- and
- a computing device confiqured to designate computing jobs powered by the filtered green electricity as green computing jobs and other computing jobs powered by the brown electricity as brown computing jobs.
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A system comprising:
- an electrical line carrying modulated electricity having green electricity produced by a green power source and brown electricity produced by a brown power source modulated at different alternating current frequencies, the green electricity being modulated at a first alternating current frequency and the brown electricity being modulated at a second alternating current frequency;
- a filter configured to attenuate the second alternating current frequency to obtain filtered green electricity;
- a rectifier configured to convert the filtered green electricity into direct current;
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- a computing device configured to run green computing jobs powered by the direct current.
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A method comprising:
- obtaining mixed-frequency electricity having green electricity produced by a renewable power source and brown electricity produced by a fossil fuel power source modulated at different alternating current frequencies, the green electricity being modulated at a first alternating current frequency and the brown electricity being modulated at a second alternating current frequency;
- attenuating the second alternating current frequency of the mixed-frequency electricity to obtain filtered green electricity that is predominantly of the first alternating current frequency;
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- powering green jobs on a computing device using the filtered green electricity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.