Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power-over-ethernet power method and system
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Application No.: US14771508Application Date: 2015-07-23
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Publication No.: US10666049B2Publication 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

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180131182A1 POWER-OVER-ETHERNET POWER METHOD AND SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-05-10
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