Patent ID: 7908505
Filing Date: 2011-03-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a power supply that receives alternating current (“AC”) voltage as an input and provides regulated direct current (“DC”) voltage as an output; a microcontroller integrated into the power supply that regulates output voltage and monitors, records, and reports operating conditions of the power supply and that records a fault code for the power supply, wherein the fault code is generated by at least one of the power supply and an electronic device connected to the power supply in response to a fault; and a non-volatile solid-state storage that can be repeatedly read from, written to, and erased by the microcontroller and integrated within the microcontroller such that only a single address is needed to access both the microcontroller and the solid-state storage, the solid-state storage configured to store operating data and the fault codes received from the microcontroller, the operating data comprising recorded operating conditions of the power supply.