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United

States

Patent

Ewing

al.

US008549067B2

8,549,067

*Oct.

2013

(10)

Patent

N0.:

(45)

Date

Patent:

(54)

(75)

(73)

(21)

(22)

(65)

(63)

(51)

(52)

NETWORKABLE

ELECTRICAL

POWER

DISTRIBUTION

PLUGSTRIP

WITH

CURRENT

DISPLAY

AND

METHOD

USE

Inventors:

Carrel

Ewing,

Reno,

(US);

Brian

Auclair,

Reno,

(US);

Andrew

Cleveland,

Reno,

S);

James

Maskaly,

Sparks,

(US);

Dennis

McGlumphy,

Sun

Valley,

(US);

Mark

Bigler,

Eugene,

(Us)

Assignee:

Server

Technology,

Inc.,

Reno,

(Us)

Notice:

Subject

any

disclaimer,

the

term

this

patent

extended

or adjusted

under

U.S.C.

l54(b)

days.

This

patent

subject

terminal

dis

claimer.

Appl.

N0.:

13/091,082

Filed:

Apr.

20,

2011

Prior

Publication

Data

2011/0296224

Dec.

1,2011

U.S.

Application

Data

Continuation

application

No.

11/548,175,

?led

Oct.

10,

2006,

now

abandoned,

which

continuation

application

No.

l0/3l3,3l4,

?led

Dec.

2002,

now

Pat.

No.

7,171,461,

which

continuation-in-part

application

No.

09/930,780,

?led

onAug.

15,

2001,

now

Pat.

No.

7,043,543,

which

continuation-in-part

application

No.

09/732,557,

?led

Dec.

2000,

now

Pat.

No.

7,099,934.

Int.

Cl.

H02B

1/04

(2006.01)

G06F

15/173

(2006.01)

U.S.

Cl.

USPC

.........

709/203; 709/201;

709/223;

361/601;

361/622; 713/340;

439/652;

307/11; 307/18;

307/31; 307/32; 307/36; 307/37; 307/43;

307/149

(58)

Field

Classi?cation

USPC

...............

709/201,

203,

223;

361/601,

622;

713/340;

439/652;

307/11,

18,

31,

32, 36,

307/37,

43,

149

See

application

?le

for

complete

history.

(56)

References

Cited

U.S.

PATENT

DOCUMENTS

4,729,375

3/l988

Jegers

al.

4,777,607

10/1988

Maury

al.

(Continued)

OTHER

PUBLICATIONS

IBM

Technical

Disclosure

Bulletin,

“Remote

Environmental

Moni

tor

for

Unattended

Computer

Operations”,

Feb.

1990,

vol.

32,

pp.

264-266.*

(Continued)

Primary

Examiner

Haresh

Patel

(74)

Attorney,

Agent,

Firm

Perkins

Coie

LLP

(57)

ABSTRACT

power

management

device

can

include

power

manage

ment

device

housing,

power

input

associated

with

the

power

management

device

housing,

and

plurality

power

outputs

associated

with

the

power

management

device

housing.

least

certain

power

outputs

can

connectable

one

electrical

loads

external

the

power

management

device

housing

and

the

power

input.

some

embodiments,

communications

bus

can

associated

with

the

power

man

agement

device

housing

and

one

power

control

sec

tions

can

also

associated

with

the

power

management

device

housing.

some

embodiments,

one

power

control

sections

can

communicate

with

the

communications

bus

and

with

one

corresponding

power

outputs

among

the

plurality

power

outputs.

some

embodiments,

power

information

display

can

communicate

with

the

com

munications

bus.

desired,

power

information

determining

section

can

associated

with

the

power

management

device

housing

and

communication

with

the

communications

bus.

The

power

information

determining

section

may

communi

cate

power-related

information

the

power

information

dis

play.

21 Claims,

Drawing

Sheets

1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 22 23

Summary of Contents

Page 1 - Patent:

(12) United States Patent Ewing et al. US008549067B2 US 8,549,067 B2 *Oct. 1, 2013 (10) Patent N0.: (45) Date of Patent: (54) (75) (73) (21) (22) (65)

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US. Patent 0a. 1, 2013 Sheet 7 of8 US 8,549,067 B2 Fig.9 900’1 902 / 916’L communications t I ‘K 5ENTRy_S|ave S ; personality ‘ con ro ._ entry module

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US 8,549,067 B2 1 NETWORKABLE ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION PLUGSTRIP WITH CURRENT DISPLAY AND METHOD OF USE RELATED APPLICATIONS AND PATENTS This app

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US 8,549,067 B2 3 strip is provided that allows a network console operator to control the electrical poWer status of a router or other network device.

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US 8,549,067 B2 5 bytes (address, type data checksum) in Which the data byte represents the status of the IPT-I2C microcontroller. The RBTN command se

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US 8,549,067 B2 7 the value of the four ADC channels. For ADC channels that are disabled, a value of OxFF is returned. For enabled ADC channels, the v

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US 8,549,067 B2 9 and XML microparser, are commercially available from Net Silicon for the NET+50 32-bit Ethernet system-on-chip. FIG. 6 represents a

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US 8,549,067 B2 11 to “Z”. Only “A” and “B” existed for the prototype. The Input Feed ID Was represented by a letter, With a range of “A” to “D”. The

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US 8,549,067 B2 13 The major software components developed for the proto type are listed in the following Tables. SenINIT —— SENTRY initialization pro

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US 8,549,067 B2 15 Intelligent Power Module (IPM) Array —— This was an array of control blocks with each entry representing an IPM de?ned to the syste

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US 8,549,067 B2 Page 2 (56) References Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 4,814,941 A 3/1989 Speetet al. 5,424,903 A 6/1995 Schreiber 5,563,455 A 10/1996 Che

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US 8,549,067 B2 17 The protocol stack 722 interfaces to a remote poWer man ager 724, and it converts software commands communicated in the form ofTCP/

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Page 17 - [input_feed_id]

US 8,549,067 B2 Page 3 Systems Enhancement Corporation; Power Administrator 800: User’s Manual; 1996; 50 pp. Of?ce Action dated Jan. 31, 2011; US. App

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US. Patent 0a. 1, 2013 Sheet 3 of8 US 8,549,067 B2 Fig. 3 Fig.4 [300 314 [310 A [400 U H 414 302 440 /U 6312 f f O 304 0 408 U 306 /‘ 443 / . 406 W446

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