Patent ID: 11936236
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A computer program product comprising:
at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable code embodied therein, the computer-readable code being executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to:
determine occurrence of a condition within a power supply system powering a system load, the power supply system including a power regulation circuit and a backup energy source, the power regulation circuit receiving main input power to power the system load and the backup energy source being operatively coupled to the power regulation circuit to supply backup power to the system load based on when main input power to the power regulation circuit being unavailable to power the system load; and
based on determining occurrence of the condition within the power supply system, actively discharge a rechargeable battery pack of the backup energy source, the actively discharging comprising:
controlling the power regulation circuit to:
suspend the main input power within the power supply system from powering the system load; and
force discharge of power from the rechargeable battery pack to the system load.