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US 9,851,775 B2Granted
Power reserve based on predicted natural calamity
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBarry A. Kritt, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Abstract
An approach is provided for managing power usage in a mobile device upon predicting a natural calamity. The approach calculates a total power requirement and a next possible recharge time of the mobile device based on the predicted natural calamity characteristics. The approach further restricts one or more services on the mobile devices to reduce battery consumption by the mobile device. The restriction of services on the mobile device being based on the calculated total power requirement and the next possible recharge time.
Claims13
A method for conserving power of a mobile device upon predicting a natural calamity, the method comprising:
- receiving natural calamity data over a computer network at a mobile device, wherein the natural calamity data corresponds to a natural calamity, a predicted geographic impact zone of the natural calamity, a calamity type, and an estimated time range of the natural calamity occurring within the predicted geographic impact zone;
- comparing the predicted geographic impact zone of the natural calamity with an anticipated geographic location of the mobile device;
- in response to determining that the predicted geographic impact zone and the anticipated geographic location of the mobile device overlap, the method further comprises:
- calculating, by the mobile device, an estimated recovery time to recover power from the natural calamity based on the calamity type and the time range of the natural calamity;
- determining, by the mobile device, a next recharge time of the mobile device based on the estimated recovery time to recover power;
- calculating, by the mobile device, a total power requirement until the next recharge time based upon power consumed by a set of services currently executing on the mobile device;
- notifying a user of the mobile device to charge the mobile device for a period of time based on the calculated total power requirement and the next recharge time;
- and
- restricting one or more of the set of services on the mobile devices to reduce battery consumption by the mobile device, wherein the restricting is based on the calculated total power requirement and the next recharge time.
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An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- one or more data stores accessible by at least one of the processors;
- a display accessible by at least one of the processors;
- a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
- and
- a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to predict a natural calamity by performing actions comprising:
- receiving natural calamity data over a computer network at a mobile device, wherein the natural calamity data corresponds to a natural calamity, a predicted geographic impact zone of the natural calamity, a calamity type, and an estimated time range of the natural calamity occurring within the predicted geographic impact zone;
- comparing the predicted geographic impact zone of the natural calamity with an anticipated geographic location of the mobile device;
- in response to determining that the predicted geographic impact zone and the anticipated geographic location of the mobile device overlap, the method further comprises:
- calculating, by the mobile device, an estimated recovery time to recover power from the natural calamity based on the calamity type and the time range of the natural calamity;
- determining, by the mobile device, a next recharge time of the mobile device based on the estimated recovery time to recover power;
- calculating, by the mobile device, a total power requirement until the next recharge time based upon power consumed by a set of services currently executing on the mobile device;
- notifying a user of the mobile device to charge the mobile device for a period of time based on the calculated total power requirement and the next recharge time;
- and
- restricting one or more of the set of services on the mobile devices to reduce battery consumption by the mobile device, wherein the restricting is based on the calculated total power requirement and the next recharge time.
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A computer program product stored in a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer program code that, when executed by an information handling system, predict a natural calamity by causing the information handling system to perform actions comprising:
- receiving natural calamity data over a computer network at a mobile device, wherein the natural calamity data corresponds to a natural calamity, a predicted geographic impact zone of the natural calamity, a calamity type, and an estimated time range of the natural calamity occurring within the predicted geographic impact zone;
- comparing the predicted geographic impact zone of the natural calamity with an anticipated geographic location of the mobile device;
- in response to determining that the predicted geographic impact zone and the anticipated geographic location of the mobile device overlap, the method further comprises:
- calculating, by the mobile device, an estimated recovery time to recover power from the natural calamity based on the calamity type and the time range of the natural calamity;
- determining, by the mobile device, a next recharge time of the mobile device based on the estimated recovery time to recover power;
- calculating, by the mobile device, a total power requirement until the next recharge time based upon power consumed by a set of services currently executing on the mobile device;
- notifying a user of the mobile device to charge the mobile device for a period of time based on the calculated total power requirement and the next recharge time;
- and
- restricting one or more of the set of services on the mobile devices to reduce battery consumption by the mobile device, wherein the restricting is based on the calculated total power requirement and the next recharge time.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.