Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080028242
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | A granted US patent that includes remotely controlling power level (operating mode) in remote servers. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 6,859,882 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Henry T. Fung / Amphus, Inc. |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | |
| URL | http://www.google.com/patents?i... |
| Filing Date | May 18, 2001 |
| Additional Information | |
Notes / To Do
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Excerpt
Excerpt (a portion of claim 1): a power manager selected as one of said plurality of computers being designated as a master providing said power manager and (i) coupled to each of said computers and receiving said level of activity information from each of said plurality of computers; (ii) analyzing said plurality of received level of activity information; (iii) determining an operating mode for each of said computers selected from said first mode, said second mode, and said third mode based on said analyzed activity information and predetermined policies; and including incrementally lowering processor performance by said power manager until data packets start dropping indicating that processor performance is at the limit of adequacy and then increasing the processor performance by a specified increment to act as a safety margin to provide reliable communication of the packets; and (iv) generating commands to each of said plurality of computers directing each of said plurality of computers to operate in said determined operating mode; |
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Claims
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Relevance
The prior art's claim 1 covers remotely controlling power consumption by remotely controlling an operating mode (equiv. to application's "power state"); the prior art's "generating commands to each of said plurality of computers directing each .. to operate in said determined operating mode" necessarily includes "building an instruction and encoding it into a suitable format for transport .. and interpreting and executing the command by the at least one server without powering down the at least one server".
The prior art's claim 1 covers remotely controlling power consumption by remotely controlling an operating mode (equiv. to application's "power state"); the prior art's "generating commands to each of said plurality of computers directing each .. to operate in said determined operating mode" necessarily includes "building an instruction and encoding it into a suitable format for transport .. and interpreting and executing the command by the at least one server without powering down the at least one server".
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