Electronic device and method for managing power in electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10120428-B2
Application number	US-201615054879-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2016
Priority date	Feb 26, 2015
Publication date	Nov 6, 2018
Grant date	Nov 6, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed is an electronic device including a battery, a display, a processor electrically connected with the battery and the display, and a memory which is electrically connected with the processor and stores at least one application, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to monitor power consumption of the at least one application during execution of the at least one application in an off state of the display, and to display, on the display, information indicating whether a value of the power consumption exceeds a threshold selected during a selected time, based on at least a part of a result of the monitoring immediately after the display enters an on state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a battery;
a display;
a processor electrically connected with the battery and the display; and
a memory which is electrically connected with the processor and stores at least one application,
wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to:
monitor power consumption of the at least one application during execution of the at least one application in an off state of the display, and
display, on the display, information indicating whether a value of the power consumption exceeds a threshold, based on a result of the monitoring in response to the display entering an on state,
wherein the information includes an indicator indicating that the power consumption of an application corresponding to the indicator exceeds the threshold.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to provide the information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds the threshold on the display by using a popup window.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the popup window provides a user interface (UI) for selecting at least one of continuation of execution of the at least one application, termination of the at least one application, pause of execution of the at least one application, uninstallation of the at least one application, and function restriction of the at least one application.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the popup window displays a result of performing the at least one of the continuation of execution, termination, pause of execution, uninstallation, and function restriction with respect to the at least one application.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor:
to display an icon capable of executing the at least one application on the display; and
to display the information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds the threshold on or near the icon.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor:
to identify a category of the at least one application; and
to display, on the display, information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds a threshold that is preset for the category during a selected time.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor:
to store a frequency of use for the at least one applications and
to display information about whether the use frequency exceeds a threshold for frequency of use or use history information based on at least a part of the frequency of use on the display.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to provide a user interface (UI) for enabling a setting of whether to display the information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds the threshold on the display, or a UI for displaying at least one application running in the processor.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to display at least one application corresponding to the value of the power consumption exceeding the threshold or to provide a user interface (UI) capable of displaying the at least one application.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the at least one application corresponding to the value of the power consumption exceeding the threshold are displayed differently according to state and occurrence frequency of a resource.

11. A method for managing power in an electronic device, the method comprising:
monitoring power consumption of at least one application during execution of the at least one application in an off state of a display of the electronic device; and
displaying, on the display, information indicating whether a value of the power consumption exceeds a threshold, based on a result of the monitoring in response to the display entering an on state,
wherein the information includes an indicator indicating that the power consumption of an application corresponding to the indicator exceeds the threshold.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising providing the information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds the threshold on the display by using a popup window.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the popup window provides a user interface (UI) for selecting at least one of continuation of execution of the at least one application, termination of the at least one application, pause of execution of the at least one application, uninstallation of the at least one application, and function restriction of the at least one application.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the popup window displays a result of performing the at least one of the continuation of execution, termination, pause of execution, uninstallation, and function restriction with respect to the at least one application.

15. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
displaying an icon capable of executing the at least one application on the display; and
displaying the information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds the threshold on or near the icon.

16. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
identifying a category of the at least one application; and
displaying, on the display, information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds a threshold that is preset for the category during a selected time.

17. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
storing a frequency of use for the at least one application; and
displaying information about whether the use frequency exceeds a threshold for frequency of use or use history information based on at least a part of the frequency of use on the display.

18. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
providing a user interface (UI) for enabling a setting of whether to display the information about whether the value of the power consumption exceeds the threshold on the display or a UI for displaying at least one application running in the processor.

19. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
displaying at least one application corresponding to the value of the power consumption exceeding the threshold or providing a user interface (UI) capable of displaying the at least one application.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the at least one application corresponding to the value of the power consumption exceeding the threshold are displayed differently according to state and occurrence frequency of a resource.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Byung-Wook
• Park Sung-Geun
• Yang Jin-Gil
• Lee Ki-Tae
• Lee Ju-Beam
• Kim Sun-Yong
• Yoon In-Hee
• Lee Jin-Goo

Classifications

• G06F1/28 Primary

  Supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision · CPC title

• G06F11/3409

  for performance assessment · CPC title

• H04W52/0264

  by selectively disabling software applications · CPC title

• G06F11/327

  Alarm or error message display · CPC title

• H04W52/0258

  controlling an operation mode according to history or models of usage information, e.g. activity schedule or time of day · CPC title