Application scenario identification method, power consumption management method, apparatus, and terminal device

• US 9,813,297 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2015
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Wenchao, Jia, Yaocang, Zhu, Jing
• Primary Examiner(s): Zong, Ruolei
• Application Number:
  US14/813,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20150333964A1
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• Field of Search: 709224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3062 where the monitored property is the power consumption power management in a computing system G06F1/3203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44 Arrangements for executing specific programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4552 Involving translation to a different instruction set architecture, e.g. just-in-time translation in a JVM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method for identifying an application scenario of a terminal device, where the method includes analyzing an application program running on a terminal device by means of compilation to obtain characteristic data of the application program; and determining, from a scenario characteristic data set according to the characteristic data of the application program, application scenario information corresponding to the characteristic data of the application program, where the scenario characteristic data set includes a correspondence between multiple types of application scenario information and characteristic data of multiple application programs. Because characteristic data of an application program is more likely to be unique in describing a corresponding application scenario, application scenario information corresponding to the characteristic data of the application program is relatively accurate. Therefore, an application scenario of a terminal device can be relatively accurately identified according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method for identifying an application scenario of a terminal device, wherein the method comprises:

analyzing an application program running on the terminal device for a first characteristic data of the application program; and

determining a first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data based, at least in part, on a first entry in a scenario characteristic data set, wherein the scenario characteristic data set comprises a plurality of application scenario information entries each corresponding to one of a plurality of characteristic data entries, wherein each of the plurality of application scenario information entries corresponds to a different one of a plurality of application scenarios of the terminal device, wherein the characteristic data entries each comprise one or more functions of a corresponding one of a plurality of applications of the terminal device, and wherein the first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data of the application program is used to indicate a current application scenario of the terminal device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first characteristic data comprises a static characteristic data and a dynamic characteristic data, and wherein analyzing the application program comprises:

analyzing the application program for one or more functions of the application program, wherein the one or more functions are identified as the static characteristic data; and

determining that one or more of the one or more functions is the dynamic characteristic data when a frequency of invoking the one or more of the one or more functions exceeds a preset threshold.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving additional application scenario information of a newly added application scenario and corresponding additional characteristic data of a newly added application program; and

storing the additional application scenario information and the additional characteristic data in the scenario characteristic data set.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving an instruction of deleting unneeded characteristic data of an application program of a specified application scenario; and

deleting, from the scenario characteristic data set, application scenario information of the specified application scenario and the unneeded characteristic data.

5. A method for managing power consumption of a terminal device, wherein the method comprises:

analyzing an application program running on the terminal device for a first characteristic data of the application program;

determining a first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data based, at least in part, on a first entry in a scenario characteristic data set, wherein the scenario characteristic data set comprises a plurality of application scenario information entries each corresponding to one of a plurality of characteristic data entries, wherein each of the plurality of application scenario information entries corresponds to a different one of a plurality of application scenarios of the terminal device, wherein the characteristic data entries each comprise one or more functions of a corresponding one of a plurality of applications of the terminal device, and wherein the first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data is used to indicate a current application scenario of the terminal device; and

determining a first power consumption control policy corresponding to the first application scenario information based, at least in part, on a control policy set, wherein the control policy set comprises a plurality of power consumption control policies each corresponding to one of the plurality of application scenario information entries.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first characteristic data comprises a static characteristic data and a dynamic characteristic data, and wherein analyzing the application program comprises:

analyzing the application program for one or more functions of the application program, wherein the one or more functions are identified as the static characteristic data; and

determining that one or more of the one or more functions is the dynamic characteristic data when a frequency of invoking the one or more of the one or more functions exceeds a preset threshold.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

generating a power consumption control instruction based, at least in part, on the first power consumption control policy; and

transferring the power consumption control instruction to a kernel of the terminal device, wherein the kernel executes the power consumption control instruction on corresponding hardware of the terminal device.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving additional application scenario information of a newly added application scenario, corresponding additional characteristic data of a newly added application program, and a corresponding additional power consumption control policy of the newly added application program;

storing the additional application scenario information and the additional characteristic data in the scenario characteristic data set; and

storing the additional application scenario information and the additional power consumption control policy in the control policy set.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving an instruction of deleting unneeded characteristic data of an application program of a specified application scenario and a corresponding power consumption control policy;

deleting, from the scenario characteristic data set, application scenario information of the specified application scenario and the unneeded characteristic data; and

deleting, from the control policy set, the application scenario information of the specified application scenario and the corresponding power consumption control policy.

10. A terminal device, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to;

run an application program;

analyze the application program for a first characteristic data of the application program; and

determine a first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data based, at least in part, on a first entry in a scenario characteristic data set, wherein the scenario characteristic data set comprises a plurality of application scenario information entries each corresponding to one of a plurality of characteristic data entries, wherein each of the plurality of application scenario information entries corresponds to a different one of a plurality of application scenarios of the terminal device, wherein the characteristic data entries each comprise one or more functions of a corresponding one of a plurality of applications of the terminal device, and wherein the first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data of the application program is used to indicate a current application scenario currently of the terminal device.

11. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein the first characteristic data comprises a static characteristic data and a dynamic characteristic data, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the application program for one or more functions of the application program, wherein the one or more functions are identified as the static characteristic data; and

determine that one or more of the one or more functions is the dynamic characteristic data when a frequency of invoking the one or more of the one or more functions exceeds a preset threshold.

12. The terminal device of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive additional application scenario information of a newly added application scenario and corresponding additional characteristic data of a newly added application program; and

store, in the scenario characteristic data set, the additional application scenario information and the additional characteristic data.

13. The terminal device of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive an instruction of deleting unneeded characteristic data of an application program of a specified application scenario; and

delete, from the scenario characteristic data set according to the instruction, application scenario information of the specified application scenario and the unneeded characteristic data.

14. A terminal device, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to;

run an application program;

analyze the application program for a first characteristic data of the application program;

determine a first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data of the application program based, at least in part, on a scenario characteristic data set, wherein the scenario characteristic data set comprises a plurality of application scenario information entries each corresponding to one of a plurality of characteristic data entries, wherein each of the plurality of application scenario information entries corresponds to a different one of a plurality of application scenarios of the terminal device, wherein the characteristic data entries each comprise one or more functions of a corresponding one of a plurality of applications of the terminal device, and wherein the first application scenario information corresponding to the first characteristic data is used to indicate a current application scenario of the terminal device;

determine a first power consumption control policy corresponding to the first application scenario information based, at least in part, on a control policy set, wherein the control policy set comprises a plurality of power consumption control policies each corresponding to one of the plurality of application scenario information entries; and

implement power consumption control on corresponding hardware of the terminal device based, at least in part, on the first power consumption control policy.

15. The terminal device of claim 14, wherein the first characteristic data comprises a static characteristic data and a dynamic characteristic data, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the application program for one or more functions of the application program, wherein the one or more functions are identified as the static characteristic data; and

determine that one or more of the one or more functions is the dynamic characteristic data when a frequency of invoking the one or more of the one or more functions exceeds a preset threshold.

16. The terminal device of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to:

generate a power consumption control instruction based, at least in part, on the first power consumption control policy; and

transfer the power consumption control instruction to a kernel of the terminal device, wherein the kernel executes the power consumption control instruction on corresponding hardware of the terminal device.

17. The terminal device of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive additional application scenario information of a newly added application scenario, corresponding additional characteristic data of a newly added application program, and a corresponding additional power consumption control policy;

store, in the scenario characteristic data set, the additional application scenario information and the additional characteristic data; and

store, in the control policy set, the additional application scenario information and the additional power consumption control policy.

18. The terminal device of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive an instruction of deleting unneeded characteristic data of an application program of a specified application scenario and a corresponding unneeded power consumption control policy;

delete, from the scenario characteristic data set, application scenario information of the specified application scenario and the unneeded characteristic data; and

delete, from the control policy set according to the instruction, the application scenario information of the specified application scenario and the unneeded power consumption control policy.