Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing energy usage

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8918657
APP PUB NO 20110252248A1
SERIAL NO

13061565

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Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, and/or user interface adapted for, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise, based on a predicted non-zero future power requirement for performing one or more portions of an expected workload by a predetermined system, the predicted future power requirement based on a past power requirement for performing one or more portions of a known workload by the predetermined system, automatically causing a change from a first power state of the predetermined system to a second power state that does not violate a specification for performing the one or more portions of the expected workload.

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  • VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cameron, Kirk Blacksburg, US 8 422
Turner, Joseph Christiansburg, US 15 172

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