Patents by Inventor Aaron M. Rhinehart
Aaron M. Rhinehart has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11243590Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one information handling resource and a power management subsystem configured to: receive signals from a plurality of power supply units, each signal indicative of an environmental parameter associated with a respective power supply of the plurality of power supply units; determine, for each of the plurality of power supply units, a respective environmental effective power capacity based on the respective signal indicative of the environmental parameter for such power supply unit and an environmental profile for such power supply unit; and manage power consumption of the at least one information handling resource based on environmental effective power capacities of the plurality of power supply units.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Aaron M. Rhinehart, Doug E. Messick
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Patent number: 11237611Abstract: An information handling system may include a power system comprising a plurality of power supply units and a management controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of power supply units. The management controller may be configured to monitor real-time direct current (DC) power consumption by components of the information handling system, determine an effective output capacity of each of the plurality of power supply units, and based on the real-time DC power consumption and effective output capacity of each of the plurality of power supply units, determine a real-time power supply unit workload attribute that indicates a number of the plurality of power supply units required to provide the real-time DC power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart
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Patent number: 11226665Abstract: A system may include a plurality of power supply units and a management device communicatively coupled to the plurality of power supply units and configured to determine a minimum number of power supplies required to support a maximum peak power budget for components of the system, determine a minimum number of power supplies required to support a minimum peak power budget for components of the system, and reduce a throttle threshold of a number of healthy power supplies of the system at which a fast throttling of the components of the system will occur if the minimum number of power supplies required to support the maximum peak power budget is equal to the minimum number of power supplies required to support the minimum peak power budget.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Craig A. Klein, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Kyle E. Cross
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Patent number: 11181961Abstract: A chassis includes power supply units configured to be a primary source of power for several information handling systems. A chassis management controller monitors a power capacity of the power supply units, and sends a measure of first available power of the power supply units to one of the information handling systems. If the power limit of a sled connector is at least equal to the first power requirement of the information handling system, then it may be determined whether a total power available for the information handling system is at least equal to the first power requirement of the one information handling system. If the total power available for the information handling system is at least equal to the first power requirement of the information handling system, then the information handling system may be powered on.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Ayedin Nikazm
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Publication number: 20210349515Abstract: An information handling system may include a power system comprising a plurality of power supply units and a management controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of power supply units. The management controller may be configured to monitor real-time direct current (DC) power consumption by components of the information handling system, determine an effective output capacity of each of the plurality of power supply units, and based on the real-time DC power consumption and effective output capacity of each of the plurality of power supply units, determine a real-time power supply unit workload attribute that indicates a number of the plurality of power supply units required to provide the real-time DC power consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2020Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Aaron M. RHINEHART
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Patent number: 11157060Abstract: A method may include, in a chassis configured to provide a common hardware infrastructure to one or more modular information handling systems inserted into the chassis: determining if a save operation is occurring at a time when one or more power supply units are capable of delivering power to the chassis; and delaying power sequencing of the one or more power supply units until the save operation has completed.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Michael E. Brown, Marshal F. Savage, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Kyle E. Cross, Michael W. Daniele, Jitendra G. Jagasia
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Publication number: 20210311536Abstract: A chassis includes power supply units configured to be a primary source of power for several information handling systems. A chassis management controller monitors a power capacity of the power supply units, and sends a measure of first available power of the power supply units to one of the information handling systems. If the power limit of a sled connector is at least equal to the first power requirement of the information handling system, then it may be determined whether a total power available for the information handling system is at least equal to the first power requirement of the one information handling system. If the total power available for the information handling system is at least equal to the first power requirement of the information handling system, then the information handling system may be powered on.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Ayedin Nikazm
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Patent number: 11099961Abstract: A method may include, in a host information handling system configured to be inserted into a chassis providing a common hardware infrastructure to a plurality of modular information handling systems including the information handling system: (i) determining a runtime health status of a persistent memory subsystem of the host information handling system; and (ii) communicating a health status indicator indicative of the runtime health status to a management module configured to manage the common hardware infrastructure.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart
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Publication number: 20210096623Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one information handling resource and a power management subsystem configured to: receive signals from a plurality of power supply units, each signal indicative of an environmental parameter associated with a respective power supply of the plurality of power supply units; determine, for each of the plurality of power supply units, a respective environmental effective power capacity based on the respective signal indicative of the environmental parameter for such power supply unit and an environmental profile for such power supply unit; and manage power consumption of the at least one information handling resource based on environmental effective power capacities of the plurality of power supply units.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Aaron M. RHINEHART, Doug E. MESSICK
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Publication number: 20210048867Abstract: A system may include a plurality of power supply units and a management device communicatively coupled to the plurality of power supply units and configured to determine a minimum number of power supplies required to support a maximum peak power budget for components of the system, determine a minimum number of power supplies required to support a minimum peak power budget for components of the system, and reduce a throttle threshold of a number of healthy power supplies of the system at which a fast throttling of the components of the system will occur if the minimum number of power supplies required to support the maximum peak power budget is equal to the minimum number of power supplies required to support the minimum peak power budget.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Craig A. KLEIN, Aaron M. RHINEHART, Kyle E. CROSS
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Patent number: 10893626Abstract: An information handling system includes multiple power supply units, and first and second chassis management controllers. The power supply units provide power to components within the information handling system. The first chassis management controller calculates a first number of power supply units needed to provide power to the components of the information handling system, and asserts a first chassis armed signal to servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units is greater than zero. The second chassis management controller receives the first number of power supply units from the first chassis management controller, and asserts a second chassis armed signal to the servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units being greater than zero.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Aaron M. Rhinehart, Dan Rao, Binay A. Kuruvila
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Publication number: 20200293419Abstract: A method may include, in a host information handling system configured to be inserted into a chassis providing a common hardware infrastructure to a plurality of modular information handling systems including the information handling system: (i) determining a runtime health status of a persistent memory subsystem of the host information handling system; and (ii) communicating a health status indicator indicative of the runtime health status to a management module configured to manage the common hardware infrastructure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Aaron M. RHINEHART
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Publication number: 20200249738Abstract: A method may be provided for use in a chassis configured to provide a common hardware infrastructure to a plurality of modular information handling systems inserted into the chassis. The method may include monitoring a health of a local energy storage device of a modular information handling system of the chassis during runtime of the modular information handling system and in the event of a power event of the chassis which triggers a persistent save operation for the plurality of modular information handling systems of the chassis, allowing the modular information handling system to participate in the persistent save operation if the local energy storage device of the modular information handling system is healthy, and disallowing the modular information handling system to participate in the persistent save operation if the local energy storage device of the modular information handling system is unhealthy.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Aaron M. RHINEHART, Kyle E. CROSS, Aaron D. CARPENTER
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Publication number: 20200084908Abstract: An information handling system includes multiple power supply units, and first and second chassis management controllers. The power supply units provide power to components within the information handling system. The first chassis management controller calculates a first number of power supply units needed to provide power to the components of the information handling system, and asserts a first chassis armed signal to servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units is greater than zero. The second chassis management controller receives the first number of power supply units from the first chassis management controller, and asserts a second chassis armed signal to the servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units being greater than zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Aaron M. Rhinehart, Dan Rao, Binay A. Kuruvila
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Publication number: 20200081514Abstract: A method may include, in a chassis configured to provide a common hardware infrastructure to one or more modular information handling systems inserted into the chassis: determining if a save operation is occurring at a time when one or more power supply units are capable of delivering power to the chassis; and delaying power sequencing of the one or more power supply units until the save operation has completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Michael E. BROWN, Marshal F. SAVAGE, Aaron M. RHINEHART, Kyle E. CROSS, Michael W. DANIELE, Jitendra G. JAGASIA
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Patent number: 10506734Abstract: An information handling system includes multiple power supply units, and first and second chassis management controllers. The power supply units provide power to components within the information handling system. The first chassis management controller calculates a first number of power supply units needed to provide power to the components of the information handling system, and asserts a first chassis armed signal to servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units is greater than zero. The second chassis management controller receives the first number of power supply units from the first chassis management controller, and asserts a second chassis armed signal to the servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units being greater than zero.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Aaron M. Rhinehart, Dan Rao, Binay A. Kuruvila
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Publication number: 20190215980Abstract: An information handling system includes multiple power supply units, and first and second chassis management controllers. The power supply units provide power to components within the information handling system. The first chassis management controller calculates a first number of power supply units needed to provide power to the components of the information handling system, and asserts a first chassis armed signal to servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units is greater than zero. The second chassis management controller receives the first number of power supply units from the first chassis management controller, and asserts a second chassis armed signal to the servers in response to a detection that the first number of power supply units being greater than zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Aaron M. Rhinehart, Dan Rao, Binay A. Kuruvila