Method for reducing the energy consumption of an electronic terminal, corresponding terminal and computer program

An electronic terminal, which comprises:

• a timeout-before-standby duration;
• and
• means for modifying the timeout-before-standby duration after an action performed by or on said terminal at a current instant, depending on membership of the current instant in a given temporal category, from among at least two predefined temporal categories, taking account of a parameter representing an estimated tolerance of a set of users of said terminal to a time lag of execution of an action by said terminal.

A computer program product recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable carrier and executable by a processor, wherein the product comprises program code instructions to implement a method for reducing the consumption of energy by an electronic terminal when the instructions are executed by the processor, wherein the method comprises:

• modifying a timeout-before-standby duration for said terminal after an action performed by or on said terminal at a current instant depending on membership of the current instant in a given temporal category, from among at least two predefined temporal categories, taking account of a parameter representing an estimated tolerance of a set of users of said terminal to a time lag in execution of an action by or on said terminal.