Migrating applications across a group of personal mobile devices based on battery usage

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9513696-B2
Application number	US-201214383180-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2012
Priority date	Mar 8, 2012
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for virtualizing battery in a personal mobile device or across a group of personal mobile devices controlled by a user are provided. The user specifies a set of power management policies for applications running in the personal mobile device(s). Battery usage per application is monitored and resources for the applications are scheduled based on the monitored battery usage and the power management policies.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a processor; and
a machine-readable non-transitory storage medium storing instructions and a set of power management policies for applications running in a plurality of personal mobile devices belonging to a first user, the instructions executable by the processor to:
provide a user interface for the first user to specify battery allocations for applications or application classes running on the plurality of personal mobile devices;
for each personal mobile device of the plurality of personal mobile devices, virtualize a physical battery of the personal mobile device into a plurality of virtual batteries;
monitor processor and memory usage and compute an estimation of battery usage;
monitor battery usage per application running in the plurality of personal mobile devices; and
migrate applications across the plurality of personal mobile devices based on the monitored battery usage and the set of power management policies, wherein the set of power management policies specify battery usage allocations for multiple user personas and contexts associated with the plurality of personal mobile devices.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface displays monitored battery usage for the applications or application classes running on the plurality of personal mobile devices.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein each virtual battery is dedicated to a unique guest operating system, wherein each guest operating system corresponds to a unique user persona.

4. A method for virtualizing battery across a group of personal mobile devices controlled by a user, the method comprising:
establishing power management policies for applications running in the personal mobile devices, wherein the power management policies specify battery usage allocations for multiple user personas and contexts associated with the personal mobile devices;
providing a user interface for the user to specify battery allocations for the applications running in the personal mobile devices;
for each of the personal mobile devices, virtualizing a physical battery of the personal mobile device into a plurality of virtual batteries;
monitoring processor and memory usage and computing an estimation of battery usage;
monitoring battery usage per application running in the personal mobile devices; and
migrating applications across the personal mobile devices based on the monitored battery usage and power management policies.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the set of power management policies are set by the user controlling the personal mobile devices.

6. The method of claim 4 , further comprising scheduling resources for applications running in the personal mobile devices based on the monitored battery usage and power management policies.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein monitoring battery usage per application running in the personal mobile devices comprises monitoring battery usage across personal mobile devices that are virtualized and running hypervisors.

8. The method of claim 4 , wherein each virtual battery is dedicated to a unique guest operating system, wherein each guest operating system corresponds to a unique user persona.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon executable by a processor to:
display a user interface to specify power management policies for a group of personal mobile devices controlled by a first user, the user interface further to specify battery allocations for applications running on the group of personal mobile devices, wherein the power management policies specify battery usage allocations for multiple user personas and contexts associated with the group of personal mobile devices;
for each personal mobile device of the group of personal mobile devices, virtualize a physical battery of the personal mobile device into a plurality of virtual batteries;
monitor processor and memory usage and compute an estimation of battery usage;
monitor battery usage for the applications running on the group of personal mobile devices;
migrate applications across the group of personal mobile devices based on the monitored battery usage and power management policies; and
globally schedule resources across the personal mobile devices based on the monitored battery usage and power management policies.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein each virtual battery is dedicated to a unique guest operating system, wherein each guest operating system corresponds to a unique user persona.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the user interface is to display monitored battery usage for the applications running on the group of personal mobile devices.

Assignees

• Banerjee Sujata
• Ramanathan Parameswaran
• Kim Kyu Han
• Hewlett Packard Development Co Lp

Inventors

• Banerjee Sujata
• Ramanathan Parameswaran
• Kim Kyu Han

Classifications

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F1/3206 Primary

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

• G06F1/329 Primary

  by task scheduling · CPC title

• G06F1/3212

  Monitoring battery levels, e.g. power saving mode being initiated when battery voltage goes below a certain level · CPC title

• G06F9/5088

  involving task migration · CPC title