Patents by Inventor Marc Jonathan Jacobs

Marc Jonathan Jacobs 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).

  • Systems and methods for powering a power-over-ethernet powered device using multiple power-over-ethernet sourcing devices
    Patent number: 11086373
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein for implementing a PoE system comprising a plurality of power sourcing equipment that power a single powered device. Control circuitry may determine the power necessary to operate a powered device in a first power mode, and may cause the powered device to draw, from a first power sourcing device, to a first port of the powered device, a first wattage. The powered device may draw, from a second power sourcing device, to a second port of a powered device, a second wattage, where a sum of the first and second wattage equals the amount of power necessary to operate in the first power mode, wherein a first isolation boundary isolates the first power sourcing equipment, the first Ethernet link, and the first port, and wherein a second isolation boundary isolates the second power sourcing equipment, the second Ethernet link, and the second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: John Kevin Frick, Marc Jonathan Jacobs
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWERING A POWER-OVER-ETHERNET POWERED DEVICE USING MULTIPLE POWER-OVER-ETHERNET SOURCING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20190179389
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein for implementing a PoE system comprising a plurality of power sourcing equipment that power a single powered device. Control circuitry may determine the power necessary to operate a powered device in a first power mode, and may cause the powered device to draw, from a first power sourcing device, to a first port of the powered device, a first wattage. The powered device may draw, from a second power sourcing device, to a second port of a powered device, a second wattage, where a sum of the first and second wattage equals the amount of power necessary to operate in the first power mode, wherein a first isolation boundary isolates the first power sourcing equipment, the first Ethernet link, and the first port, and wherein a second isolation boundary isolates the second power sourcing equipment, the second Ethernet link, and the second port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: John Kevin Frick, Marc Jonathan Jacobs