Battery usage tracking user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9606706-B2
Application number	US-201414503078-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2014
Priority date	May 30, 2014
Publication date	Mar 28, 2017
Grant date	Mar 28, 2017

Abstract

A portable electronic device having a user interface for displaying battery usage of the device over a given time period, with the battery usage from various subsystems. The various subsystems including at least one hardware subsystem and the battery usage attributed to a plurality of software applications based on activity of the plurality of software applications, while battery usage of the various subsystems was monitored.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, cause the device to:
attribute a portion of battery usage of a first hardware subsystem during a first time period to a first application based on the battery usage of the first hardware subsystem that occurred during activity by the first application during the first time period;
attribute a portion of the battery usage of the first hardware subsystem during the first time period to a second application based on the battery usage of the first hardware subsystem that occurred during activity by the second application during the first time period;
receive a request to display a battery usage user interface corresponding to the first time period;
in response to the request to display a battery usage user interface corresponding to the first time period, display the battery usage user interface that includes a representation of the battery usage attributed to the first application during the first time period and a representation of the battery usage attributed to the second application during the first time period;
attribute a portion of battery usage of the first hardware subsystem during a second time period to the first application based on the battery usage of the first hardware subsystem that occurred during activity by the first application during the second time period;
attribute a portion of the battery usage of the first hardware subsystem during the second time period to the second application based on the battery usage of the first hardware subsystem that occurred during activity by the second application during the second time period;
receive a request to display the battery usage user interface corresponding to the second time period, the second time period at least partially overlapping with the first time period; and
in response to the request to display the battery usage interface corresponding to the second time period, display the battery usage user interface including a representation of the battery usage attributed to the first application during the second time period and a representation of the battery usage attributed the second application during the second time period.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the battery usage user interface does not include a direct representation of the battery usage of the first hardware subsystem.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the battery usage user interface includes a representation of the battery usage of a second hardware subsystem that is not attributed to the first application or the second application.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions to cause the device to:
attribute a portion of battery usage of a second hardware subsystem to the first application based on the battery usage of the second hardware subsystem that occurred during activity by the first application;
attribute a portion of the battery usage of the second hardware subsystem to the second application based on the battery usage of the second hardware subsystem that occurred during activity by the second application.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions to cause the device to:
attribute a portion of battery usage of a first software subsystem to the first application based on the battery usage of the first software subsystem that occurred during activity by the first application;
attribute a portion of the battery usage of the first software subsystem to the second application based on the battery usage of the first software subsystem that occurred during activity by the second application.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein the first software subsystem include a notification daemon.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein the first software subsystem includes an operating system process.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein a portion of the battery usage of a second software subsystem during activity by the first application is not attributed to the first application and a portion of the battery usage of the second software subsystem during activity by the second application is not attributed to the second application, and the battery usage user interface includes an item representing the second software subsystem including a representation of the battery usage attributed to the second software subsystem and not attributed to the first application or the second application.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the second software subsystem comprises a home screen or lock screen.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the second software subsystem comprises notifications.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the second software subsystem comprises a voice assistant.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first hardware subsystem includes a central processing unit (CPU) or graphics processing unit (GPU).

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first hardware subsystem includes a wireless antenna.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first hardware subsystem includes a display backlight.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions to cause the device to:
attribute, to the first application, battery usage caused by a background activity benefiting the first application that occurred while the first application was not active.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the request to display the battery usage user interface corresponding to the first time period comprises activation of a portion of a segmented user interface element corresponding to the first time period.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the request to display the battery usage user interface corresponding to the second time period comprises activation of a portion of a segmented user interface element corresponding to the second time period.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first time period is based on a period of operation of the device.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium claim 1 , wherein the first time period corresponds to a tune period the device is powered.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first time period corresponds to a calendar period.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the battery usage user interface includes representations of battery usage attributed to items having battery usage in excess of a threshold percentage of total battery usage, and the representations of battery usage attributed to the items represents substantially the total battery usage.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the battery usage user interface includes a representation of

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Vyas Amit K
• Coffman Patrick L
• Liu Albert S
• Pathak Abhinav
• Ramadurai Anand

Classifications

• G01R31/3646 Primary

  for indicating electrical conditions or variables, e.g. visual or audible indicators · CPC title

• G06F3/0484 Primary

  for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range · CPC title

• G06F1/28 Primary

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

• G06F1/3212

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

• G06F3/041

  Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means · CPC title