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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10128684 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2014

Energy control via power requirement analysis and power source enablement

Applicant:

Virtual Power Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shankar Ramamurthy, Saratoga, CA (US);

Sushant Shankar, Saratoga, CA (US);

Rajaram Soundararajan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Andrew Sy, Fremont, CA (US);

Andrew L Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Erich Karl Nachbar, Foster City, CA (US);

K David Lin, San Jose, CA (US);

Frank Chuang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Rajeev P Huralikoppi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ryan Justin Kennedy, Charlotte, NC (US);

Denis Kouroussis, Toronto, CA;

Milind Kukanur, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Pranthik Samal, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Virtual Power Systems, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:

Adams Intellex, PLC

Primary Examiner:

Phil Nguyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); H02J 9/06 (2006.01); G06F 1/30 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 9/061 (2013.01); G06F 1/263 (2013.01); G06F 1/30 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); H02J 7/0063 (2013.01); H02J 9/062 (2013.01); H02J 2007/0067 (2013.01); Y10T 307/344 (2015.04);
Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods to provide energy control via power-requirement analysis and power-source enablement. Both demand-side and supply-side techniques are used alone or in conjunction to determine an optimal number of power sources to supply power to one or more loads. When fluctuations in power requirements are present, measures such as decoupling less-critical loads in order to continue delivering power to critical systems and turning on and off power sources as needed to meet the current power demands of a system are implemented. Power sources are periodically deactivated by the system on a rotational basis such that all power sources wear evenly, prolonging the life of the equipment. A scalable architecture that allows the virtualization of power from the underlying hardware form factor is also provided.

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