System and method of controlling supply of electrical power
AssigneeWireButter Pty Ltd
InventorAnthony Salerno
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Abstract
An electrical power outlet including a computer processor having a memory operably connected thereto storing computer instruction code, a control module for controlling the supply of electrical power from the outlet upon receipt of a control signal from the computer processor, and a communications module for connection with a plurality of external electrical power outlets, wherein the computer instruction code, when executed by the computer processor, causes the computer processor to control the supply of electrical power from the outlet according to predetermined conditions stored in the computer memory, and transmit contents of the computer memory to the plurality of external electrical power outlets and receive memory contents from a plurality of external electrical power outlets.
Claims28
An electrical power outlet including:
- a computer processor having a computer memory operably connected thereto storing computer instruction code;
- a control module for controlling a supply of electrical power from the outlet upon receipt of a control signal from the computer processor;
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- a communications module for connection with a plurality of external electrical power outlets;
- wherein the computer instruction code, when executed by the computer processor, causes the computer processor to:
- control the supply of electrical power from the outlet according to predetermined conditions stored in the computer memory;
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- transmit contents of the computer memory to the plurality of external electrical power outlets and receive memory contents from the plurality of external electrical power outlets within a network of power outlet;
- whereby, upon detecting failure of any one or more electrical power outlets within the network of electrical power outlets, the computer processor is caused to transmit the contents of the computer memory to the one or more failed electrical power outlets, thereby providing the computer instruction code required by the one or more electrical power outlets that failed.
A method of controlling supply of electrical power, including:
- providing individual electrical power outlets in a network of electrical power outlets with a computer processor having a computer memory operably connected thereto;
- controlling, by each computer processor, the supply of electrical power from the corresponding electrical power outlet according to predetermined conditions stored in the computer memory of the corresponding electrical power outlet;
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- transmitting contents of the computer memory of each electrical power outlet to other electrical power outlets in the network of electrical power outlets and receiving memory contents in each electrical power outlet from other electrical power outlets in the network;
- whereby, upon detecting failure of any one or more electrical power outlets within the network of electrical power outlets, the computer processor is caused to transmit the contents of the computer memory to the one or more failed electrical power outlets, thereby providing the computer instruction code required by the one or more electrical power outlets that failed.
A system of controlling supply of electrical power, the system including:
- a network of electrical power outlets including two or more controllable electrical power outlets, each controllable power outlet including:
- a computer processor and a computer memory operably connected thereto storing computer instruction code;
- a control module for controlling the supply of electrical power from the outlet upon receipt of a control signal from the computer processor;
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- a communications module for connection with other electrical power outlets of said network of electrical power outlets;
- wherein the computer instruction code, when executed by the computer processor, causes the computer processor to:
- control the supply of electrical power from the outlet according to predetermined conditions stored in the computer memory;
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- transmit contents of the computer memory to the other electrical power outlets of said network of electrical power outlets, and receive memory contents from the other electrical power outlets in the network;
- whereby, upon detecting failure of any one or more electrical power outlets within the network of electrical power outlets, the computer processor is caused to transmit the contents of the computer memory to the one or more failed electrical power outlets, thereby providing the computer instruction code required by the one or more electrical power outlets that failed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.