Offline Battery Management in a Device

摘要

Techniques are described for battery management in a computing device. The described techniques may be implemented by a battery offline module that provides functionality to control utilization of a battery such as determining whether the battery is available to receive power from a power source. For instance, the battery offline module may receive an input requesting that a battery be taken offline, determine whether system conditions for taking the battery offline are met, and take the battery offline when the system conditions are met such that the battery is not capable of receiving power from a power source of the computing device. In some instances, the battery offline module may cause different powering and charging arrangements between multiple batteries of the computing device. By implementing the battery offline module in the computing device, battery utilization is controlled to improve battery life.

主权项

1. A method of controlling utilization of a primary and secondary battery of a computing device, the method comprising:
receiving an input at a battery offline module implemented at least partially in hardware, the input requesting that the primary battery of the computing device be taken offline such that the primary battery is not capable of receiving power from a power source of the computing device; determining, by the battery offline module, whether one or more system conditions of the computing device have been met for taking the primary battery offline; and responsive to a determination that the one or more system conditions have been met:
taking the primary battery offline such that the primary battery is not capable of receiving power from a power source of the computing device; andcausing the computing device to receive power from a secondary battery sufficient to operate the computing device.