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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2007
Wael William Diab, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hemal V. Shah, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Simon Assouad, Irvine, CA (US);
Wael William Diab, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hemal V. Shah, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Simon Assouad, Irvine, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for operating system power management in a computing device for power over Ethernet (PoE). Computing devices such as portable computers or embedded devices having an operating system (OS) can leverage power management features in an OS. Power management state information such as user parameters, computing device parameters, application parameters, IT parameters, network parameters, etc. can be used to generate power requests that are acted upon by power sourcing equipment.