Mobile computing device reconfiguration in response to environmental factors including consumption of battery power at different rates

• US 9,569,225 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2015
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Krishnamurthy, Rajaram B., Rogers, Daniel A.
• Primary Examiner(s): PEYTON, TAMMARA R
• Application Number:
  US14/847,057
• Publication Number:
  US 20160170772A1
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 710 62- 74
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/263 Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies, e.g. battery and AC G06F1/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3212 Monitoring battery levels, e.g. power saving mode being initiated when battery voltage goes below a certain level
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/329 by task scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4403 Processor initialisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4405 Initialisation of multiprocessor systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 User profiles; Roaming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method for dynamically modifying a mobile device. The method includes a computer processor identifying a plurality of profiles on a mobile device. The method further includes a computer processor receiving one or more inputs on the mobile device. The method further includes a computer processor identifying at least one trigger that corresponds to the received one or more inputs, wherein the at least one trigger is associated with at least one profile of the plurality of profiles. The method further includes a computer processor determining if the at least one trigger activates a response, based at least in part, on data included in the at least one profile that is associated with the at least one trigger. The method further includes a computer processor responding to the determination that the at least one trigger activates a response and applying the response to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically modifying a mobile device, the method comprising:

identifying, by one or more computer processors, a plurality of profiles on a mobile device;

receiving, by one or more computer processors, one or more inputs on the mobile device;

identifying, by one or more computer processors, at least one trigger that corresponds to the received one or more inputs, wherein the at least one trigger is associated with at least one profile of the plurality of profiles;

determining, by one or more computer processors, if the at least one trigger activates a response, based at least in part, on data included in the at least one profile that is associated with the at least one trigger;

wherein the identified at least one trigger includes a first trigger, the first trigger is associated with a battery power level of the mobile device indicating a first threshold;

in response to determining that the first trigger associated with the battery power level of the mobile device attains the first threshold, activating, by one or more computer processors, a first response in an energy management profile within the plurality of profiles;

determining, by one or more computer processors, that the first trigger associated with the battery power level of the mobile device attains a second threshold; and

in response to determining that the first trigger associated with the battery power level of the mobile device attains the second threshold, activating, by one or more computer processors, a second response in the energy manage profile, wherein the second response includes replacing, by one or more computer processors, a first hardware and software configuration of the mobile device with a second hardware and software configuration associated with the mobile device, and wherein the second hardware and software configuration consumes battery power at a different rate than the first hardware and software configuration on the mobile device; and

in response to determining that the at least one trigger activates a response, applying, by one or more computer processors, the response to the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first response of an energy management profile includes at least one of deactivating one or more features of the mobile device and modifying one or more features of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first response of an energy management profile includes at least one of deactivating one or more software application on the mobile device and modifying one or more software applications on the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by one or more computer processors, a second input, wherein the second input is associated with a mobile device profile;

identifying, by one or more computer processors, a third hardware and software configuration within a plurality of hardware and software configurations accessible by the mobile device, which is associated with the received second input and a second user;

downloading, by one or more computer processors, the third hardware and software configuration from the plurality of hardware and software configurations, wherein the plurality of hardware and software configurations includes hardware and software configurations of the user, the second user, and other mobile device users; and

applying, by one or more computer processors, the downloaded third hardware and software configuration to the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by one or more computer processors, a group of profiles within the plurality of profiles on the mobile device, wherein the members of the group of profiles contain the identified at least one trigger and one or more additional triggers;

determining, by one or more computer processors, a second profile, wherein the second profile is the member of the group of profiles which contains the at least one trigger, and the one or more additional triggers;

identifying, by one or more computer processors, a second response associated with the second profile, wherein the second response is based, at least in part, on the at least one trigger and the one or more additional triggers; and

activating, by one or more computer processors, the second response on the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified at least one trigger is based, at least in part, on analyzing visual input to the mobile device, wherein the visual input includes video inputs or picture inputs.