Patents by Inventor Doug E. Messick
Doug E. Messick 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: 12222785Abstract: An information handling system includes a power supply unit, a processor, and a baseboard management controller. The power supply unit includes a first energy counter configured to store first power level information associated with an amount of power supplied by the power supply unit. The processor includes a second energy counter configured to store second power level information associated with an amount of power consumed by the processor. The baseboard management controller periodically calibrates the second power level to the first power level based upon a variable calibration cycle time.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Doug E. Messick
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Patent number: 12174679Abstract: An information handling system polls telemetry data from sensors associated with a central processing unit, and determines current offsets for each one of the sensors based on the telemetry data. The system may also determine a domain current offset associated with a calibration domain, determine a voltage regulator offset based on the domain current offset, and adjust power provided by the voltage regulator to the central processing unit based on the voltage regulator offset.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Doug E. Messick, John Erven Jenne
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Patent number: 12093724Abstract: Disclosed methods for managing two or more information handling systems receive administrator preferences for a job to be scheduled ton each system and assign time slots, based on the administrator preferences, for performing the job on each system. The time slots are assigned in a manner that avoids or minimizes time slot overlap. Job requests are created for each system wherein each job request includes or otherwise indicates a scheduled time slot for executing the job.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Kyle E. Cross, Wei G. Liu, Arun Muthaiyan, Prashanth Giri
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Publication number: 20240256019Abstract: An information handling system includes a power supply unit, a processor, and a baseboard management controller. The power supply unit includes a first energy counter configured to store first power level information associated with an amount of power supplied by the power supply unit. The processor includes a second energy counter configured to store second power level information associated with an amount of power consumed by the processor. The baseboard management controller periodically calibrates the second power level to the first power level based upon a variable calibration cycle time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Doug E. Messick
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Publication number: 20240250547Abstract: An information handling system may determine a battery charge rate to be applied to a battery backup unit, wherein the determining is based on a system power consumption and a system power limit. If the system power consumption is equivalent to an idle power limit then the battery charge rate applied to the battery backup unit is minimized, and if the system power consumption is between the idle power limit and the system power limit then the battery charge rate is maximized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Thomas R. Thibodeau
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Publication number: 20240085963Abstract: An information handling system polls telemetry data from sensors associated with a central processing unit, and determines current offsets for each one of the sensors based on the telemetry data. The system may also determine a domain current offset associated with a calibration domain, determine a voltage regulator offset based on the domain current offset, and adjust power provided by the voltage regulator to the central processing unit based on the voltage regulator offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Doug E. Messick, John Erven Jenne
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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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Publication number: 20210406064Abstract: A method may include, at a management module configured to manage a plurality of information handling systems: receiving administrator preferences for a job to be scheduled at each of the plurality of information handling systems, based on the administrator preferences, assigning for each of the plurality of information handling systems a respective time slot for performing the job at such information handling system, in order to avoid or minimize overlap among the respective time slots, and creating for each of the plurality of information handling systems a respective job request for performing the job at such information handling system, the job request including a scheduled time for execution of the job based on the respective time slot of such information handling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Kyle E. CROSS, Wei G. LIU, Arun MUTHAIYAN, Prashanth GIRI
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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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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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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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Patent number: 10678321Abstract: Systems and methods for reduced boot power consumption using early BIOS controlled CPU power states to enhance power budgeting and allocation. An information handling system may include a server. The server may include a central processing unit (CPU), a memory, a non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) device, a performance state (P-state) limiting indicator stored in the NVRAM device, a P-state value stored in the NVRAM, and a basic input/output system (BIOS) stored in the memory. The BIOS may read a power state limiting indicator stored in the NVRAM device and when the power state limiting indicator indicates that power state limiting is enabled, read a power state value stored in the NVRAM, and program the power state of the CPU to the power state value to cause the CPU to limit power supplied to the CPU to the power state value.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Jordan Chin, Rui Shi, Kyle E. Cross
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Publication number: 20200073463Abstract: Systems and methods for reduced boot power consumption using early BIOS controlled CPU power states to enhance power budgeting and allocation. An information handling system may include a server. The server may include a central processing unit (CPU), a memory, a non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) device, a performance state (P-state) limiting indicator stored in the NVRAM device, a P-state value stored in the NVRAM, and a basic input/output system (BIOS) stored in the memory. The BIOS may read a power state limiting indicator stored in the NVRAM device and when the power state limiting indicator indicates that power state limiting is enabled, read a power state value stored in the NVRAM, and program the power state of the CPU to the power state value to cause the CPU to limit power supplied to the CPU to the power state value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Jordan Chin, Rui Shi, Kyle E. Cross