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).

  • Publication number: 20240085963
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Doug E. Messick, John Erven Jenne
  • Patent number: 11243590
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Rhinehart, Doug E. Messick
  • Patent number: 11237611
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart
  • Patent number: 11226665
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Craig A. Klein, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Kyle E. Cross
  • Publication number: 20210406064
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Kyle E. CROSS, Wei G. LIU, Arun MUTHAIYAN, Prashanth GIRI
  • Patent number: 11181961
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Ayedin Nikazm
  • Publication number: 20210349515
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Aaron M. RHINEHART
  • Publication number: 20210311536
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart, Ayedin Nikazm
  • Patent number: 11099961
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Aaron M. Rhinehart
  • Publication number: 20210096623
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Aaron M. RHINEHART, Doug E. MESSICK
  • Publication number: 20210048867
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Craig A. KLEIN, Aaron M. RHINEHART, Kyle E. CROSS
  • Publication number: 20200293419
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. MESSICK, Aaron M. RHINEHART
  • Patent number: 10678321
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Jordan Chin, Rui Shi, Kyle E. Cross
  • Publication number: 20200073463
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Doug E. Messick, Jordan Chin, Rui Shi, Kyle E. Cross