Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Computer power control
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-22
2010-11-30
Connolly, Mark (Department: 2115)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Computer power control
C713S320000, C718S001000, C718S100000, C718S102000, C718S103000, C718S104000, C718S105000, C709S201000, C709S203000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07844839
ABSTRACT:
A network device is described that load-balances network traffic among a set of network servers based on electrical power consumption of the network servers. The network device may measure electrical power consumption in a variety of ways, and may generate and maintain a power consumption profile for each of the network server. The power consumption profile may describe the respective server power consumption in increasing granularity. For instance, each power consumption profile may specify electrical power consumption according to watts consumed by a server per average transaction, watts consumed per transaction for a specific type of software application, watts consumed per transaction for a software application for individual network resources, and so on. Furthermore, the profiles may be maintained for individual servers or aggregated for groups or sequences of servers.
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Beri Sanjay
Palmer Matthew
Connolly Mark
Juniper Networks, Inc.
Shumaker & Sieffert P.A.
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