Mobile device offloading its task to a peer device when available power is below a threshold level

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104412-B2
Application number	US-201213730274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2012
Priority date	Dec 28, 2012
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

A system configured to manage battery energy of a mobile device includes a primary mobile device and at least one peer device. The primary mobile device includes a power unit, a main communication module to electrically communicate with a peer device, and a peer assisted module in electrical communication with the power unit and the main communication module. The peer assisted module determines an energy level of the energy unit, and determines a task to be executed by the peer device. The peer device receives the task transmitted from the primary mobile device. The peer device further includes a peer process management module that executes at least one computation that completes the task, and communicates a completed task to the primary mobile device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of managing battery energy of a mobile device, comprising:
detecting an execution of at least one software application stored on the mobile device;
determining a task of the software application, the task being completed in response to executing at least one computation;
determining a level of energy available to the mobile device;
determining a cost value based on an amount of computations for completing the task and a duration of the at leas…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Lynar Timothy M
• Steer Kent C B
• Vecchiola Cristian
• Wagner John M

Classifications

• G06F1/329 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F1/3209

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W52/0264

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02B60/50

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W52/0261

  Electricity · mapped topic