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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Franklin D. Boyden, Pleasanton, CA (US);
David K. Owen, Livermore, CA (US);
Anupama Padminidevi Karthikeyan Nair, San Jose, CA (US);
Jaspal S. Gill, Tracy, CA (US);
Katsuhiro Okamura, Royal Oaks, CA (US);
Michael D. Savini, San Jose, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed method may include (1) monitoring, while a computing device receives power from an external power supply, (A) the amount of power consumed by the computing device and (B) the amount of power provided to the computing device by the external power supply, (2) detecting that the amount of power provided to the computing device exceeds the amount of power consumed by the computing device by at least a certain threshold, (3) determining, based on the amount of power provided to the computing device exceeding the amount of power consumed by the computing device by the certain threshold, that the computing device is experiencing a malfunction, and then (4) mitigating potential damage to the computing device due to the malfunction by at least partially reducing the amount of power provided to the computing device from the external power supply. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed.