Method and device for improving battery life of a mobile station
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsJOHN M. HARRIS, VAN E. KELLY
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Abstract
A method (150) and device (200) for conserving energy in a power storage device of a mobile station (102, 110), including: selecting (155) an alert mode associated with a mobile station, the alert mode including at least one of: silent alert, vibrate and manual answer; detecting (160) the alert mode of the mobile station; and increasing (165) a length of a paging cycle in order to conserve power of an energy storage device associated with the mobile station (102, 110), in response to the detected alert mode. The method provides a useful compromise for energy conservation of a power storage device on one hand, while also accommodating a user's demand for a short paging interval when desired, on the other.
Claims20
A method for lengthening the battery life of a mobile station, comprising:
- selecting an alert mode associated with a mobile station, the alert mode including at least one of:
- silent alert, vibrate and manual answer;
- detecting the alert mode of the mobile station;
- and
- increasing a length of a paging cycle in order to conserve power of an energy storage device associated with the mobile station, in response to the detected alert mode.
A wireless communication device configured with an energy storage device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a controller coupled to the housing, the controller configured to control the operations of the wireless communication device;
- memory coupled to the controller;
- a transceiver coupled to the controller;
- and
- a power saving module configured to select an alert mode associated with a mobile station, the alert mode including at least one of:
- silent alert, vibrate and manual answer, and to increase a length of a paging cycle in order to conserve power of an energy storage device, in response to the selected alert mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.