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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2003
Sachin Navin Chheda, Roseville, CA (US);
Ricardo E. Espinoza-ibarra, Carmichael, CA (US);
Robert William Dobbs, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Sachin Navin Chheda, Roseville, CA (US);
Ricardo E. Espinoza-Ibarra, Carmichael, CA (US);
Robert William Dobbs, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the present invention provides a server card that is removably insertable into a server chassis. An electronic power switching mechanism is disposed on the server card and is configured to cause three power states of the server card including a fully operational state, a standby state, and a fully shutdown state. In the fully operational state, a system power of the server card is enabled and a standby power of the server card is enabled. In the standby state, a system power of the server card is disabled and the standby power of the server card is enabled. In a shutdown state, the system power of the server card is disabled and the standby power of the server card is disabled.