Patent ID: 11971765
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the set of actions further comprises:
determining, based on the priority levels and the updated present level of available power for a portion of the computer network that includes the respective PSE, that power can no longer presently be supplied to the complete set of PDs via the set of ports without violating the policy;
selecting, from the set of PDs, a preferred subset of the PDs that have been assigned a higher priority level than a remainder subset of the PDs; and
in response to the selecting:
supplying power from the respective PSE to the preferred subset of the PDs via a first subset of the Ethernet cables that connect the preferred subset of the PDs to a first subset of the ports, and
refraining from supplying power from the respective PSE to the remainder subset of PDs via a second subset of the Ethernet cables that connect the remainder subset of the PDs to a remainder subset of the ports.