Patent ID: 8160753

Claim:
An automated method of controlling a power managed system, the method comprising: establishing a power consumption budget for a plurality of loads each consuming power; defining an overbudget limit and an associated time window; defining a disconnect limit, said disconnect limit greater than said defined overbudget limit; monitoring power consumption of said plurality of loads; in the event that said monitored power consumption exceeds said defined disconnect limit, disabling at least one of the plurality of loads from consuming power; determining, at a plurality of time intervals over said associated time window, an indication of excess power consumption for each of said plurality of time intervals, said indication of excess power consumption being a function of said monitored power consumption and said defined power consumption budget; and in the event that an integral over said associated time window of a function of said determined indications of excess power consumption exceeds said overbudget limit, disabling at least one of the plurality of loads from consuming power.