Patent ID: 7996690

Claim:
An information handling system comprising: a chassis having plural slots, each slot operable to accept an information handling system module; plural information handling system modules, each information handling system module having processing components operable to process information and sized to couple to the chassis in a slot; a power supply associated with the chassis and operable to selectively allocate power to each slot for use by the information handling system modules; a power monitor associated with each information handling system module and operable to monitor power consumption at the associated information handling system module; a power manager associated with the chassis and interfaced with the power supply and the power monitors, the power manager operable to dynamically allocate power from the power supply for use by the information handling system modules based upon power consumption monitored by the power monitor of each information handling system module; and a power use table associated with each power monitor, the power use table having plural power consumption ranges, each power consumption range associated with a predetermined time period, the power monitor communicating the power consumption range to the power manager to establish initial power allocation for the associated time period.