Aggregated electronic device power management

An aggregated power management control system comprising:

• an activity information collector configured to collect activity information from one or more remote electronic devices regarding use of a type of hardware component on each of the one or more remote electronic devices by one or more applications executing on each of the one or more remote devices, each of the one or more applications being registered to use the type of hardware component;
• a timeout period selector configured to select a timeout period associated with the use of the type of hardware component by the one or more registered applications based on the collected activity information, the timeout period defining a minimum amount of time before a power state of the type of hardware component is transitioned from a higher-power state to a lower-power state while at least one of the one or more applications remains registered to use the type of hardware component;
• a usage pattern module configured to determine one or more usage patterns in the collected activity information of the one of the one or more remote electronic devices executing the one or more applications, each usage pattern in the one or more usage patterns defining a usage pattern of the type of hardware component by the one or more applications, wherein the timeout period selector adjusts the selected timeout period associated with the type of hardware component by the one or more applications based on the one or more determined usage patterns;
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• a timeout period transmitter configured to transmit the adjusted timeout period to one of the one or more remote electronic devices, the one of the one or more remote electronic devices executing the one or more registered applications.

One or more tangible processor-readable storage media embodied with instructions for executing on one or more processors and circuits of a device a process for power management electronic devices, the process comprising:

• registering one or more applications to use a type of hardware component on one or more remote electronic devices;
• collecting activity information from the one or more remote electronic devices regarding use of the type of hardware component on each of the one or more remote electronic devices by the one or more registered applications executing on each of the one or more remote electronic devices, the activity information describing a usage history of the type of hardware component by the one or more registered applications;
• setting a timeout period associated with the use of the type of hardware component by the one or more registered applications based on the collected activity information, the timeout period defining a minimum amount of time before a power state of the type of hardware component is transitioned from a higher-power state to a lower-power state while at least one of the one or more applications remains registered to use the type of hardware component;
• determining one or more usage patterns in the one or more remote electronic devices executing the one or more applications based on the activity information, each usage pattern in the one or more usage patterns defining a usage pattern of the type of hardware component by the one or more applications;
• adjusting the timeout period associated with the use of the type of hardware component by the one or more applications based on the one or more determined usage patterns;
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• transmitting the adjusted timeout period to one of the one or more remote electronic devices executing the one or more applications to control power management on the one of the one or more remote electronic devices.