Adaptive connected standby for a computing device

摘要

Various computing devices and methods of managing the power consumption thereby are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of managing power consumption of a computing device that has a battery is provided. The method includes cycling the computing device between a connected standby active state and a connected standby idle state. The duration of the connected standby idle state is set based at least in part on a charge level of the battery.

主权项

1. A method of managing power consumption of a computing device having a battery, comprising:
cycling the computing device between a connected standby active state and a connected standby idle state; and setting the duration of the connected standby idle state based at least in part on a charge level of the battery; and running an application on the computing device and instructing the application to limit its activities to the connected standby active state wherein the application is operable to cause the computing device to communicate with a network device, the method including causing the application to communicate the battery charge level to the network device and modifying the interaction between the computing device and the network device in response to the communicated battery charge level.