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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
Sunay Tripathi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nicolas G. Droux, San Jose, CA (US);
Venugopal Vaidhyanathan Iyer, Fremont, CA (US);
Sunay Tripathi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nicolas G. Droux, San Jose, CA (US);
Venugopal Vaidhyanathan Iyer, Fremont, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A system including a first physical network interface card (NIC) include a number of rings, where at least one of the rings is an active ring. The system further includes a host, operatively connected to the first NIC, and including Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer is configured to obtain a power management policy, obtain a load associated with the active ring, determine, using the power management policy and the load, that the state associated with at least one of the rings must be changed, and change, in response to the determining, the state of at least one of the of rings.