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US 11,409,478 B2Granted
Power consumption usage report
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsBartley Mark Hirst, Cooper G Urie
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving a usage report from a printer, wherein the usage report comprises a count of pages printed and a time spent in a first power state; calculating a power consumption for the printer according to the usage report, and providing a report of historic power consumption.
Claims14
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- receive a usage report from a printer, wherein the usage report comprises a count of pages printed, a time spent in each of a plurality of power states, and a runtime for a printer component of the printer;
- calculate a power consumption for the printer based on the count of pages printed, the time spent in each of the plurality of power states included in the usage report, and the runtime for the printer component;
- and
- provide a report of historic power consumption.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a usage report including usage data from each of a plurality of printers, wherein the usage data comprises a count of pages printed, a time spent in each of a plurality of power states, and a runtime for a printer component of the printer;
- calculating an aggregate power consumption for the plurality of printers based on the count of pages printed, the time spent in each of the plurality of power states included in the usage data, and the runtime for the printer component;
- and
- providing a power consumption report for the plurality of printers.
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A system, comprising:
- a data collection engine to:
- receive, from each of a plurality of printers, a usage report comprising a count of pages printed, a time spent in each of a plurality of power states, and a runtime for a printer component of the printer;
- a calculation engine to:
- calculate a power consumption based on the count of pages printed, the time spent in each of a plurality of power states, and the runtime for the printer component included in the usage report from each of the plurality of printers, wherein the power consumption is based on a power state power usage figure for each of the plurality of power states, a per-page power usage figure, and a component power usage figure for the printer component;
- and
- a report engine to:
- provide a power consumption report for each of the plurality of printers, wherein the power consumption report comprises a historic power consumption and a projected future power consumption.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.