Patent ID: 7917792

Claim:
A power distribution system, comprising: an input power line configured to supply power produced by a power source; one or more power distribution components operatively connected to receive power supplied by the power source, each power distribution component having one or more power outputs for distributing power along a power line connected thereto, each power distribution component being further configured to modulate a carrier signal containing identification data along the power line connected to each power output; one or more intelligent system resources, each system resource being operatively connected to receive power distributed by at least one of the one or more power distribution components, each intelligent system resource being configured to receive and demodulate the carrier signal modulated by each power distribution component from which it receives power, each system resource being further configured to generate a list of each power distribution component from which it receives power and to pass the list to a system bus; and a power management component configured to receive each list generated the one or more system resources from the system bus and to process each list to generate a mapping of the at least one power distribution component from which each system resource receives power.