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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2009
Tirthankar Ghose, Antioch, CA (US);
David W. Kunkel, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew A. Laherty, Bloomington, IN (US);
John D. Parello, Campbell, CA (US);
Tirthankar Ghose, Antioch, CA (US);
David W. Kunkel, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew A. Laherty, Bloomington, IN (US);
John D. Parello, Campbell, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes generating a message to be communicated over a network to a plurality of entities that reside in a domain. The message includes data relating to energy use. The message can be generated by one or more computing devices belonging to the domain. A selected one of the computing devices can control power consumption for the entities in the domain. In more specific embodiments, a formatting of the message is done at an application level. The formatting of the message is independent of a transport protocol of the message.