• Patent Title: Power-over-ethernet power method and system
  • Application No.: US14771508
    Application Date: 2015-07-23
  • Publication No.: US10666049B2
    Publication Date: 2020-05-26
  • Inventor: Krishna Vavilala
  • Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
  • Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
  • Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
  • Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
  • Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@1e2481f
  • International Application: PCT/IB2015/055589 WO 20150723
  • International Announcement: WO2016/185257 WO 20161124
  • Main IPC: H02J3/06
  • IPC: H02J3/06 G06F1/26 H04L12/10
Power-over-ethernet power method and system
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method, system, and apparatus including a Power Source Equipment (PSE) device configured to provide Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) to a Powered Device (PD) that is configured to receive a request from the PD requesting a quantity of PoE power, the quantity of PoE power including an amount of power to be provided by the PSE as power for redundancy, receiving a message from the PD, the message including a unique identifier, allocating a requested quantity of PoE power, the allocating of the requested quantity of PoE power including allocating to provide the requested quantity of PoE power from one of a plurality of PSEs, and providing the requested quantity of PoE power to the PD. Related methods, systems, and apparatuses are described.
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