Battery consumption monitoring
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsQiujun Zhao, Robin You
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for battery monitoring on a computing device includes: estimating a battery consumption estimate for an event scheduled on the computing device, checking a battery charge level prior to said scheduled event, determining according to a set of battery notification rules whether or not to provide a battery warning notification on the computing device, where the determining is based at least on the battery consumption estimate and the checking, and providing the battery warning notification if required in accordance with the determining.
Claims13
A method for battery monitoring on a computing device, the method comprising:
- estimating an event battery consumption estimate for a user scheduled event on said computing device;
- estimating a pre-event consumption estimate for expected battery usage prior to a start of said user scheduled event;
- checking a battery charge level according to a schedule of time intervals preceding a start of said user scheduled event;
- determining according to a set of battery notification rules whether or not to provide a battery warning notification on said computing device, wherein said determining is based at least on said event battery consumption estimate, said pre-event battery consumption estimate, said time intervals, and said battery charge level according to said checking;
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- providing said battery warning notification if required in accordance with said determining.
A computing device comprising:
- a battery operative to provide current battery charge levels at least according to a schedule of time intervals;
- a processor;
- and
- a battery manager configured to be run by said processor and configured to:
- estimate event battery consumption estimates for user scheduled applications run by said processor,
- estimate pre-event battery consumption estimates for said battery prior to a schedule start for said user scheduled applications, and
- based on said current battery charge levels, said event battery consumption estimates, and said pre-event battery consumption estimates, determine whether or not to provide battery warning notifications on said computing device;
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- a screen display operative to display said battery warning notifications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.