Battery management system and method
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1. A method for battery management, the method comprising:
- monitoring, by a battery management system, a present battery condition of a battery for supplying power to a plurality of subsystems of a mobile communication device, wherein the present battery condition indicates a present operating temperature of the battery, wherein an amount of battery capacity depleted by a subsystem has a relationship to the present operating temperature of the battery;
determining whether the present operating temperature of the battery falls below a power saving mode enable condition for each respective subsystem of the plurality of subsystems, wherein the power saving mode enable condition is set by a user of a mobile communication device, and wherein a first amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is below the power saving mode enable condition is greater than a second amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is above the power saving mode enable condition; and
in response to determining that the present operating temperature of the battery falls below the power saving mode enable condition for one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystems, disabling the one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystems without disabling one or more of a remainder of the plurality of subsystems.
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Abstract
A battery-management method is performed by a battery-operated device. The method includes allocating a first portion of a battery capacity to a first function and a second portion of the battery capacity to a second function. The method further includes simultaneously displaying a first indicator relating to the first portion of the battery capacity and a second indicator relating to the second portion of the battery capacity.
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1. A method for battery management, the method comprising:
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monitoring, by a battery management system, a present battery condition of a battery for supplying power to a plurality of subsystems of a mobile communication device, wherein the present battery condition indicates a present operating temperature of the battery, wherein an amount of battery capacity depleted by a subsystem has a relationship to the present operating temperature of the battery; determining whether the present operating temperature of the battery falls below a power saving mode enable condition for each respective subsystem of the plurality of subsystems, wherein the power saving mode enable condition is set by a user of a mobile communication device, and wherein a first amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is below the power saving mode enable condition is greater than a second amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is above the power saving mode enable condition; and in response to determining that the present operating temperature of the battery falls below the power saving mode enable condition for one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystems, disabling the one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystems without disabling one or more of a remainder of the plurality of subsystems. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium encoded with computer executable instructions, wherein execution of the computer executable instructions is for:
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monitoring, by a battery management system, a present battery condition of a battery for supplying power to a plurality of subsystems of a mobile communication device, wherein the present battery condition indicates a present operating temperature of the battery, wherein an amount of battery capacity depleted by a subsystem has a relationship to the present operating temperature of the battery; determining whether the present operating temperature of the battery falls below a power saving mode enable condition for each respective subsystem of the plurality of subsystems, wherein the power saving mode enable condition is set by a user of a mobile communication device, and wherein a first amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is below the power saving mode enable condition is greater than a second amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is above the power saving mode enable condition; and in response to determining that the present operating temperature of the battery falls below the power saving mode enable condition for one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystem, disabling the one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystems without disabling one or more of a remainder of the plurality of subsystems. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A mobile communication device comprising:
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a battery for supplying power to a plurality of subsystems of the mobile communication device; a battery management system configured to; monitor a present battery condition of the battery, wherein the present battery condition indicates a present operating temperature of the battery, wherein an amount of battery capacity depleted by a subsystem has a relationship to the present operating temperature of the battery; determine whether the present operating temperature of the battery falls below a power saving mode enable condition for each respective subsystem of the plurality of subsystems, wherein the power saving mode enable condition is set by a user of a mobile communication device, and wherein a first amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is below the power saving mode enable condition is greater than a second amount of battery capacity depleted by the subsystem when the present operating temperature of the battery is above the power saving mode enable condition; and disable one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystems without disabling one or more of a remainder of the subsystems of the plurality of subsystems in response to determining that the present operating temperature of the battery falls below the power saving mode enable condition for the one of the respective subsystems of the plurality of subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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