Computing device component battery charging
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsGregory Allen NIELSEN, Donghwi KIM
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Abstract
A mobile computing device is configured to charge a component battery. The mobile computing device comprises a power supply unit, a computing device battery, a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to control a rate of charging the component battery from either the power supply unit or the computing device battery based at least in part on a magnitude of throttled power provided to the processor.
Claims20
A mobile computing device configured to charge a component battery, the mobile computing device comprising:
- a power supply unit;
- a computing device battery;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- control a rate of charging the component battery from either the power supply unit or the computing device battery based at least in part on a magnitude of throttled power provided to the processor.
In a computing device, a method of controlling a rate of charging a component battery of the computing device, the computing device comprising a power supply unit, computing device battery, and a processor, the method comprising:
- controlling a rate of charging the component battery based at least in part on a magnitude of throttled power provided to the processor.
A mobile computing device configured to charge a component battery, the mobile computing device comprising:
- a power supply unit;
- a computing device battery;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- determine a plurality of candidate rates of charging the component battery from either the power supply unit or the computing device battery;
- select a selected rate of charging the component battery from the plurality of candidate rates based at least in part on a magnitude of throttled power provided to the processor;
- utilize the selected rate of charging the component battery to charge the component battery;
- determine that a state of charge of the component battery is above a renewable source threshold;
- and
- based at least on determining that the state of charge of the component battery is above the renewable source threshold, switching from either the power supply unit or the computing device battery to a renewable energy source to charge the component battery.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.