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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. 27, 2016

Filed:

May. 05, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Saurabh Chadha, Bangalore, IN;

Prasanna Jayaraman, Bangalore, IN;

Tony E. Sawan, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/28 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/28 (2013.01); G06F 1/263 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 1/3234 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and products for budgeting for power consumption in a chassis environment that includes a plurality of integrated technology elements ('ITEs'), each ITE having power utilization information indicating an average power consumption of the ITE, including: determining, by a chassis management module, a total power requirement value based on a sum of the average power consumption for each ITE; increasing, by the chassis management module, the total power requirement value in dependence upon a predetermined power utilization delta; identifying, by the chassis management module, one or more power supplies to provide power to the ITEs in the chassis environment in dependence upon power delivery capabilities of the one or more power supplies and the total power requirement value; and powering on the identified one or more power supplies by the chassis management module.


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