Statistical approach to power management for electronic devices

摘要

Power savings is provided to users of various electronic devices by monitoring the times and locations at which those users activate, deactivate, or otherwise change an operational state of one or more functional elements of a device. Other contextual or environmental information can be captured as well when the user performs such an action. One or more statistical analysis or prediction algorithms can be used to determine when and/or where the user is likely to repeat the one or more actions, where a confidence level of the prediction can be impacted at least in part by the environmental and contextual factors. When a prediction has a minimum level of confidence, a corresponding action can be performed automatically by the device when the relevant factors are met. Changes in behavior can be monitored such that the predictions can be refined over time.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, upon being executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:
detect a plurality of instances when a user of the computing device charges the computing device; store data obtained by the computing device when the user charges the computing device for each of the plurality of instances, the data including at least a time and a location; analyze the data to determine a predicted time when and a predicted location where the user is likely to charge the computing device; monitor a remaining amount of power of the computing device; determining that the computing device will run out of power before the predicted time occurs and before the user is at the predicted location unless one or more functional components are deactivated; and deactivate the one or more functional components of the computing device.