Patent ID: 8775846

Claim:
A power manager comprising: a power bus; a plurality of device ports each configured to operably connect with an external power device; for each of the plurality of device ports: a first conductive path disposed between the device port and the power bus; a first controllable switching element disposed along the first conductive path; a second conductive path disposed between each device port and the power bus; a controllable power converter disposed along the second conductive path between the device port and the power bus; a second controllable switching element disposed along the second conductive path between the controllable power converter and the device port; wherein the second conductive path and the controllable power converter can be shared between two or more of the plurality of device ports a data processing device and associated memory in communication with each of the first and second controllable switches and with each of the controllable power converters; and, energy management schema operating on the power manager for controlling each of the first and second controllable switches and each of the controllable power converters.