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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156372 | Power outage operation of a cable modem A method, system and computer program product for operation of a cable modem in response to Alternating Current (AC) power outage is described herein. When a loss of AC power is detected, the cable modem is switched to battery backup mode of operation using a single... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8108720 | Methods, systems and products for detecting failing power supplies Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for predicting failures in power supplies. A count of exception messages is set to zero. When a exception message is received, the count of exception messages is incremented and compared to a threshold value. When the cou... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103907 | Power architecture to provide power supply redundancy Systems and methods that provide power redundancy to a computer system without increasing the number of independent power supplies used. A system having N computing modules may have power redundancy using N power supplies, where each of the N power supplies are able... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8078908 | Data storage device and method An apparatus includes a cache memory for storing user data and control information of the apparatus, a nonvolatile memory and a processor for executing a process including when the power failure occurs, saving the user data and the control information stored in the ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074112 | Memory backup used in a raid system Systems, apparatuses, and methods for memory backup in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) system are described. The methods include detecting a failure in a main power supply that supplies power to a volatile memory that is coupled to a RAID controller, s... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065560 | Method and apparatus for achieving high availability for applications and optimizing power consumption within a datacenter A method and apparatus for achieving high availability for applications and optimizing power consumption within a datacenter is provided. In one embodiment, a method for providing high availability and optimizing power consumption within a datacenter comprises upon ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8051327 | Connection between machines and power source Machines may be connected to power distribution units (PDU/STSs) in such a way that if one PDU/STS fails or is taken out of service, the machines' loads are shifted more-or-less evenly to the other PDU/STSs. Several PDU/STSs may be provided for a group of dual-corde... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8015434 | Management apparatus, storage system, and storage apparatus management method There is provided a management apparatus of a storage apparatus. The management apparatus includes an acquisition determination section that determines whether predetermined identification information can be acquired or not from a mounting apparatus that mounts at l... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006132 | Storage subsystem and power supply system The present invention includes a plurality of disk units for storing data from a host computer, a plurality of power supply apparatuses for supplying DC power to each of the disk units via main power supply wirings, and a redundant power supply apparatus for generat... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001419 | Energy storage module An industrial automation controller module includes a main module and an energy storage module (ESM) releasably connected to the main module. The ESM includes a back-up electrical power source such as a battery or a capacitor that is electrically connected to proces... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7949897 | Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus A predetermined power failure recovery process is carried out when power failure recovery data is determined to be present in a flash ROM when a power supply is turned on after a power failure. However, when a tray opening and closing key is pressed before completio... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7900087 | Method and apparatus for correlating an out-of-range condition to a particular power connection Techniques for identifying UPS-sub-system interconnections using manual data, UPS identification signals, and variations in UPS voltage variations that produce error signals. Once interconnections have been identified an operating system can check the UPS/sub-system... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7882392 | Electronic device and method of controlling electronic device An electronic device includes a power supply unit that generates plural output voltages from an input voltage and outputs the various output voltages from respective plural power supply channels, a voltage detecting unit that monitors voltages of two power supply ch... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7840840 | DC backup power supply system, a disk array and a DC backup power supply A DC backup power supply system having a plurality of loads to which AC from a commercial power source is supplied, and DC power storage means for supplying DC power to the plurality of the loads at the time of a power outage of the commercial power source, said DC ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836336 | Redundant power and data over a wired data telecommunications network A method and apparatus for redundant power and data over a wired data telecommunications network permits power to be received at a local powered device (PD) from remote power sourcing equipment (PSE) via at least one conductor at a first time and power and/or data t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831860 | System and method for testing redundancy and hot-swapping capability of a redundant power supply A system for testing redundancy and hot-swapping capability of a redundant power supply includes a power switch fixture, a system under test (SUT), and a computing device. The power switch fixture includes a processor, an alternating current (AC) source, a first rel... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7809983 | Storage system that finds occurrence of power source failure One or more switches are interposed between a controller portion and a storage device. When transmission of a command to a certain storage device fails, a command is transmitted starting from an upstream side to a downstream side of a path between the controller por... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7788531 | Generation of backing electric current on the basis of a combination of components This descriptive document is about a new backup device that takes advantage of the components of a PC's conventional power supply and it combines them with additional typical electronic components from an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The result of such combin... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7734953 | Redundant power solution for computer system expansion cards Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for providing a redundant power solution for an expansion card installed within a host computer. The expansion card has a hardware device and a power control mechanism. The power control mechanism provides pow... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7698595 | Driving method of storage apparatus and disk subsystem including such storage apparatus Provided is a highly reliable storage apparatus for supplying power to a plurality of memory mediums. This storage apparatus has a plurality of hard disks separately disposed in groups of eight; a plurality of power supply units for supplying power to each of the ei... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7653834 | Power sparing synchronous apparatus Embodiments include a system, an apparatus, a device, and a method. An apparatus includes a synchronous circuit including a first subcircuit powered by a first power plane having a first power plane voltage and a second subcircuit powered by a second power plane hav... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7620846 | Redundant power and data over a wired data telecommunications network A method and apparatus for redundant power and data over a wired data telecommunications network permits power to be received at a local powered device (PD) from remote power sourcing equipment (PSE) via at least one conductor at a first time and power and/or data t... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7596715 | Computer server with built-in modular networking component A network-configured computing device providing services to one or more other computing devices. A circuit board contained within a housing of the computing device includes a plurality of interfaces for coupling one or more devices therewith. Processing units mounte... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7526674 | Methods and apparatuses for supplying power to processors in multiple processor systems Methods and apparatuses for supplying power to processors in multiple processor systems are disclosed. Embodiments comprise a method of monitoring a parameter that is related to a first voltage potential coupled to the processor. When the parameter or condition moni... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7512838 | Data integrity analysis for a data storage system Disclosed is a method and apparatus relating generally to analysis techniques for data integrity following an un-safe power down occurrence of non-tape media components comprising a storage system. The data storage system comprises at least one random access memory ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509529 | System and method for performing user recovery of guided procedures for an uninterruptible power supply A processor embedded in a device includes instructions for procedures to be completed by a user. A display provides the instructions as steps for completion to the user. The processor monitors status of the device to determine completion of the steps before proceedi... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7487391 | Storage controller super capacitor adaptive life monitor A storage controller has a capacitor pack for storing energy to supply during a main power loss, a temperature sensor that senses the capacitor pack temperature, and a CPU, which repeatedly: receives the temperature during an interval over which the capacitor pack i... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7464292 | Redundant power system with no latent single failure point A redundant power supply system with several individual power supplies, each connected to one of several power inlets. At least one power supply can be connected to a selectable one of the several power inlets by means of a steering network. ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7451348 | Dynamic write cache size adjustment in raid controller with capacitor backup energy source A high data availability write-caching storage controller has a volatile memory with a write cache for caching write cache data, a non-volatile memory, a capacitor pack for supplying power for backing up the write cache to the non-volatile memory in response to a lo... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437546 | Multiple, cooperating operating systems (OS) platform system and method Embodiments of a multi-processor platform including multiple, cooperating operating systems are described. Multiple operating systems, each of which may be of a different type or nature, run on different partitions of the multi-processor platform, yet coexist and co... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7415631 | Backup-type power supply system A backup-type power supply system aims to integrate power output according to different potentials through different power supply modules. Each power supply module includes backup-type N+1 power supply devices and an independent power balance unit to output power in... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412622 | Detection of abnormality subsequent to power activation trigger or power stop command An information processing apparatus includes a main controller which issues a control command and a sub-controller which operates in accordance with the control command. The sub-controller includes a detection unit which detects an abnormality of the information pro... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412479 | Highly scalable and highly available cluster system management scheme A cluster system is treated as a set of resource groups, each resource group including an highly available application and the resources upon which it depends. A resource group may have between 2 and M data processing systems, where M is small relative to the cluste... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405673 | Operation control system and image forming apparatus When a connector of a power cord is connected to an inlet of a printer, an RFID reader of the printer acquires rating information of the power cord by reading the rating information from an RFID-IC of the power cord. Then, a controller of the printer judges whether ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406623 | DC backup power supply system and disk array using same In the case where there coexist general loads requiring backup only for a short duration and a specific load requiring backup for a longer duration, uninterruptible power with higher reliability is supplied to the specific load with the adoption of a simple configur... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395452 | Method and system for improved reliability in storage devices A method of preventing data loss in a data storage system includes supplying write data to a high speed volatile write buffer and supplying electrical power from an energy storage device upon detection of a primary power loss event. The backup electrical power is su... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395466 | Method and apparatus to adjust voltage for storage location reliability According to embodiments of the present invention, an integrated circuit such as a processor includes a counter to count an actual number of unreliable storage locations in the processor cache, at least one register to store an acceptable number of unreliable storag... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383452 | Electronic device and method for initiating powering-up of a processor in the electronic device A device and method for making a peripheral device compliant with a power management standard, such as the USB standard, are described. The device includes a power management unit (PMU) and a timing unit. The PMU is coupled to a battery pack and to a processor of th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380158 | Method and system for providing persistent storage of user data A file server for serving data of a client from a network. The server includes disk means for storing the data. The server includes means for receiving the data from the network and sending an acknowledgment that the data has been stored to the client through the ne... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372834 | Method of controlling transmission power of retransmission packet and mobile terminal using the same The transmission power of a retransmission packet is controlled in the event of a packet retransmission request being sent from a receiving side in a wireless mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) transmission. In a me... | 05/13/2008 |
