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US 8,788,865 B2Granted
Method and system for redeploying powered devices from a power sourcing equipment with insufficient power capacity to another power sourcing equipment with excess power capacity
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJaved P. Mohammed
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Abstract
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to determining power sourcing equipment. A system includes multiple power sourcing equipment that can provide power to one or more powered devices via network connections. One or more of the power sourcing equipment with excess power capacity are determined.
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A network management device comprising:
- a receiver to receive status information about a plurality of power sourcing equipment, each power sourcing equipment to provide power to a plurality of powered devices via respective network connections;
- an equipment manager module to determine a first power sourcing equipment, from among the plurality of power sourcing equipment, that is at or approaching its power sourcing capacity;
- a capacity identifier module to determine a second power sourcing equipment whose power sourcing capacity is below a threshold;
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- a redeployment module to select one or more of the powered devices to be redeployed from being powered by the first power sourcing equipment to being powered by the second power sourcing equipment based on criteria.
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A method comprising:
- receiving status information about a plurality of power sourcing equipment, each power sourcing equipment to provide power to a plurality of powered devices via respective network connections;
- determining that power usage of a first power sourcing equipment of the plurality of power sourcing equipment providing power to the plurality of powered devices via the network connection, is at or approaching its power sourcing capacity based on the status information;
- identifying a second power sourcing equipment with excess capacity to provide power;
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- selecting, based on criteria, one or more of the powered devices to be redeployed from the first power sourcing equipment to the second power sourcing equipment.
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A system comprising:
- a plurality of network elements;
- a plurality of network powered devices,
- wherein the network elements respectively provide power to a subset of the network powered devices via respective network connections;
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- a network management device comprising:
- a receiver to receive status information about the plurality of network elements;
- an equipment manager module to determine a network element, from among the plurality of network elements, that is at or approaching its power sourcing capacity based on the status information;
- a capacity identifier module to determine a list of the network elements with a power supply usage below a threshold level;
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- a redeployment module to select, based on criteria, one or more of the powered devices to be redeployed from being powered by a first power sourcing equipment to being powered by a second power sourcing equipment included in the list.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.