US 12,265,437 B2
Network connected device energy conservation
Ugo M. Campiglio, Morges (CH); Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US); Sachin D. Wakudkar, St-Sulpice (CH); Juan Carlos Zuniga, Montreal (CA); and Domenico Ficara, Essertines-sur-Yverdon (CH)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/172,993.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/367,937, filed on Jul. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0012461 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 1/3206 (2019.01); G06F 1/3209 (2019.01); G06F 1/3231 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 1/3206 (2013.01) [G06F 1/3209 (2013.01); G06F 1/3231 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to perform an operation comprising:
classifying, at a Network Monitoring Application (NMA), a first electronic device of a plurality of connected electronic devices into a first power control category of a plurality of power control categories, wherein classifying the first electronic device further comprises:
detecting a local power control for the first electronic device;
classifying the first electronic device as an autonomous decision device; and
determining, from the local power control, a set of environmental factors for autonomous decision making at the first electronic device;
monitoring a physical environment associated with the plurality of connected electronic devices based on monitoring the set of environmental factors;
detecting a power control change in the physical environment; and
transmitting a power control signal to the first electronic device comprising at least an indication of the detected power control change, wherein the power control signal comprises current values for the set of environmental factors.