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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Jean Picard, Hooksett, NH (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/10 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); G06F 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01); G06F 1/189 (2013.01); H04L 49/351 (2013.01); Y02B 60/33 (2013.01);
Abstract
A power-over-Ethernet (PoE) apparatus is provided with PSE controllers that are cooperable to manage a global power budget of the PoE apparatus automatically. Information indicative of the global power budget is conveyed to a group of PSE controllers. The PSE controllers cooperate collectively to allocate the global power budget among themselves automatically and autonomously. This is accomplished in simple fashion without using a separate, programmed microcontroller. Each PSE controller also manages its own local power budget, allocating available local power among its own power sourcing ports.