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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Philips Lighting Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Matthias Wendt, Würselen, DE;
Lennart Yseboodt, Retie, BE;
Bozena Erdmann, Aachen, DE;
Manuel Eduardo Alarcon-Rivero, Delft, NL;
Maurice Herman Johan Draaijer, Ittervoort, NL;
Assignee:
PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/10 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 1/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates a method and apparatus for distributing power in DC-grid systems, wherein power negotiations are done in a daisy chained system. Multiple mechanisms are presented mitigating the issue of stepwise exploring the power requests along a chain and still keeping the negotiation quick and without many cycles required.