Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption, and mobile terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10142928-B2
Application number	US-201415307779-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 12, 2014
Priority date	May 12, 2014
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus for reducing power consumption, and a mobile terminal, which are used to reduce power consumption of the mobile terminal, and improve user experience. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: when a system enters a preset working mode, detecting a first-type application and a second-type application that are installed in the system; changing a type of an alarm of the first-type application, and suspending an alarm of the second-type application, so that the alarm of the first-type application cannot wake up the system in the preset working mode, and that the alarm of the second-type application cannot wake up the system in the preset working mode and/or is not woken up by the system when the system is in an awake state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for reducing power consumption, applied to a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
detecting a first-type application and a second-type application that are installed in a system when the system enters a preset working mode; and
changing a type of an alarm of the first-type application, and suspending an alarm of the second-type application, so that the alarm of the first-type application does not wake up the system in the preset working mode, and that the alarm of the second-type application cannot wake up the system when the system is in the preset working mode or is not woken up by the system when the system is in an awake state;
wherein the detecting the first-type application and the second-type application that are installed in the system comprises:
detecting one or more third-party applications installed in the system, wherein the first-type application and the second-type application are third-party applications;
acquiring license information of the third-party applications;
determining, according to the license information, whether the third-party applications have an alarm permit or a wakeup permit; and
selecting the first-type application and the second-type application from the third-party applications that are determined to have the alarm permit or the wakeup permit, wherein the first-type application is a third-party application that is not frequently used by a user and has the alarm permit or the wakeup permit, and the second-type application is a third-party application that is not used by the user for a predetermined period of time and has the alarm permit or the wakeup permit.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the third-party application installed in the system further comprises:
acquiring installation information of an application installed in the system;
determining, according to the installation information, whether the application is a system application; and
if the application is not a system application, determining that the application is a third-party application.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the changing of the type of the alarm of the first-type application, and suspending the alarm of the second-type application, and after the system is manually woken up, the method further comprises:
starting the first-type application and the second-type application;
restoring the alarm of the first-type application; and
resuming the alarm of the second-type application.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the selecting of the first-type application and the second-type application from third-party applications that are determined to have the alarm permit or the wakeup permit comprises:
selecting the first-type application and the second-type application according to activity logs of the third-party applications that have the alarm permit or the wakeup permit.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the alarm of the first-type application comprises at least one of a wakeup alarm or a non-wakeup alarm, and the alarm of the second-type application comprises at least one of a wakeup alarm or a non-wakeup alarm, and wherein
the changing of the type of the alarm of the first-type application comprises:
changing the wakeup alarm in the first-type application to the non-wakeup alarm in the first-type application; and
the suspending of the alarm of the second-type application comprises:
suspending the wakeup alarm and the non-wakeup alarm in the second-type application.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the preset working mode is a sleep mode.

7. An apparatus for reducing power consumption, applied to a mobile terminal, wherein the apparatus comprises: a bus, a processor, and a memory, wherein the processor and the memory are connected to the bus, the memory is configured to store a computer instruction, and the processor executes the computer instruction to perform the following:
detecting a first-type application and a second-type application that are installed in a system when the system enters a preset working mode; and
changing a type of an alarm of the first-type application, and suspending an alarm of the second-type application, so that the alarm of the first-type application cannot wake up the system in the preset working mode; and that the alarm of the second-type application does not wake up the system in the preset working mode or is not woken up by the system when the system is in an awake state;
wherein the detecting the first-type application and the second-type application that are installed in the system comprises:
detecting one or more third-party applications installed in the system, wherein the first-type application and the second-type application are third-party applications;
acquiring license information of the third-party applications;
determining, according to the license information, whether the third-party applications have an alarm permit or a wakeup permit; and
after it is determined that the third-party applications have the alarm permit or the wakeup permit, selecting the first-type application and the second-type application from the third-party applications that are determined to have the alarm permit or the wakeup permit, wherein the first-type application is a third-party application that is not frequently used by a user and has the alarm permit or the wakeup permit, and the second-type application is a third-party application that is not used by the user for a predetermined time and has the alarm permit or the wakeup permit.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the alarm of the first-type application comprises at least one of a wakeup alarm or a non-wakeup alarm, and the alarm of the second-type application comprises at least one of a wakeup alarm or a non-wakeup alarm; and wherein the processor executes the computer instruction to perform:
changing the wakeup alarm in the first-type application to the non-wakeup alarm in the first-type application; and
suspending the wakeup alarm and the non-wakeup alarm in the second-type application.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor executes the computer instruction to:
after the type of the alarm of the first-type application is changed, and the alarm of the second-type application is suspended, and after the system is manually woken up, start the first-type application and the second-type application, and restore the alarm of the first-type application and resume the alarm of the second-type application.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor executes the computer instruction to:
acquire installation information of an application installed in the system;
determine, according to the installation information, whether the application is a system application; and
after it is determined that the application is not a system application, determine that the application is a third-party application.

11. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor executes the computer instruction to:
after determining the third-party applications having the alarm permit or the wakeup permit, select the first-type application and the second-type application according to activity logs of the third-party applications that have the alarm permit or the wakeup permit.

12. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the preset working mode is a sleep mode.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions, the instructions causing a processor to execute a method for reducing power consumption, the method comprising:
detecting a first-type

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Liang
• Peng Yu
• Guo Yuhua

Classifications

• H04W52/0209 Primary

  in terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W52/0251 Primary

  using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity · CPC title

• G06F1/3206

  Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality · CPC title

• G06F1/329

  by task scheduling · CPC title

• G06F9/4893

  taking into account power or heat criteria (power management in computers in general G06F1/3203; thermal management in computers in general G06F1/206) · CPC title