Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080028242
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Submitted by Group 4: Tung Do, Greg Hodgson, Tamer Taher, and Matthew Wojtecki - Kent State University Graduate School of Business |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Communication |
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| Subject/Title | Synopsis of Patent in Design |
| Relevant Name(s) (i.e. authors, speakers, senders, recipients) | Tung Do, Greg Hodgson, Tamer Taher, and Matthew Wojtecki |
| Publication Date | April 30, 2005 |
| Time | 8:00pm |
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Notes / To Do
| Notes | Synopsis and Opinion of the Proposed Patent |
Excerpt
Excerpt LIMITATIONS
Although the patent in question has many features, which, when fully functional, will allow the network administrator to efficiently manage power throughout a server farm or group of appliances, there are several limitations to the marketability and success of the patent in question. First off, it appears as if though several companies (i.e. Uplogix™) have already patented a similar power efficiency process. More specifically, Uplogix’s program called Envoy Management enables secure remote management for all hardware containing Envoy Management firmware. Envoy utilizes a web based GUI (Graphical User Interface) to display its environment, also similar to the proposed patent.
PROSPECTS
Despite the proposed patent’s similarities to other existing products on the market, and the proposed patent’s use of the technology that provides network administrators with a solution to control the efficiency of power in various network appliances and servers, is for the most part, already in existence, the proposed patent does have some very useful advantages. For one, it is the culmination of processes that make the service unique.
BUSINESS ASPECTS
Despite the proposed patents apparent “piggy-backing” on already existing legacy protocols such as SNMP and other services for power management in existence, it is unique in that the bringing together of these processes and the attractive and easy to use XML based GUI will be more effective than the usage of all individual parts alone. Although the invention’s competitors may have created a service of a similar nature, the inventions advantages and ease of use gives it marketability over its competitors.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. SNMP: SNMP could be used instead of XML messages; many companies are offering products that claim to perform the same or similar service. WANDL is a company that uses SNMP to monitor Networks, physical failure on power supply could be detected by SNMP and reported a failure. Further, WANDL administrator could turn off/on power supply. In big networks, Devices send a message to the main server reporting a power supply failure, link down, Fan damaged…etc, instead of a main servers/software’s send a status request to each device on the network, that is a one of the main advantage over SNMP.
2. Redundancy: having one power online will increase the risk of power failure. The patent can go further with load balancing ideas and increase the availability and stability such as two or more switches with a load balancer. Although sharing the power supplied by more than one supplier could increase heat and power consumption, it will market the patent to enterprise organizations / companies. Under a load balancer, a supplier could provide 50% and the other supplier provide the remaining 50%, taking in consideration that either one can provide the full power.
3. Usage of the open industry standard that provides (among other things) power management. As well as usage of the Active Energy Manager will measure, monitor, and manage the energy components were built into IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. IBM Director is inherently remotely manageable.
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Claims
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A method for remotely controlling power consumption of at least one server, comprising:
providing remote control to an administrator over a power state of at least one server;
building an instruction command and encoding it into a suitable format for transport over a data network from an administration terminal to the at least one server; and
interpreting the command and executing the command by the at least one server without powering down the at least one server.
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