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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

David F. Heinrich, Tomball, TX (US);

Pranay Mahendra, Tomball, TX (US);

Stephen Robert Jones, Cypress, TX (US);

Gennadiy Rozenberg, Spring, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/045 (2006.01); G01R 21/133 (2006.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/045 (2013.01); G01R 21/133 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G05B 2219/25257 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system is provided, which manages, by a microcontroller internal to a fan installed in a server, power data associated with the fan, wherein the fan includes two pins configured to communicate signals based on an inter-integrated circuit (I2C). During operation of the fan, the microcontroller measures a first and second amount of power consumed by the fan at a first and second time. The microcontroller transmits, via the two pins, the information to a system management entity which monitors and manages the server, wherein the system management entity controls a speed of the fan in response to receiving the measured power data and based on a net power comprising a difference between a total amount of power consumed by the server and an amount of power consumed by the fan.


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