Apple Inc.

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Vulcan Patents LLC

Interval Licensing LLC

Virtual Technologies, Inc.

Other

Immersion Corporation

John Meron Ananny

Keith Alan Cox

Scott Peter Krueger

Lawrence G Bolton

Gregory Thomas Lydon

Oliver Thomas Bayley

Terry L Tikalsky

Geoffrey M Smith

James E Dishman

Bernard J Kerr

Mark A McCabe

Cyril De La Cropte De Chanterac

Jay S Laefer

Karen Eckert

Gaurav Kapoor

James F Kramer

Allen R Boronkay

Nicholas Robert Kalayjian

Shailesh Rathi

Amaury J Heresztyn

Michael Eng

Nagarajan Kalyanasundaram

Stephen D Sterz

Paul L Korff

Loren F Bentley

Conor McNamara

Eric Steven Jol

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Albert John Golko

Mitchell David Adler

Emily Clark Schubert

Patrick Y Law

Alexei Elias Kosut

Scott P Mullins

Achmed Rumi Zahir

Nitin Ganatra

Paul Holden

Frank Faqiu Liang

Todd K Moyer

James S Ismail

Jeffrey M Alves

Steven G Herbst

Shyam S Toprani

Jim C Hwang

Derek J DiCarlo

Anand Ramadurai

Jason J Yew

Alex J Crumlin

Peter T Langenfeld

Bernhard Schambeck

Robert S Parnell

Jason Luo Pang

Greg Simon

Dietmar Fuchs

Jahan C Minoo

John Gregory Dorsey

Inder M Sodhi

Roberto G Yepez

Kenneth Ryan Loo

Stanley Rabu

Bryan R Hinch

Aditya Venkataraman

Nicholas W Ruhter

David M Demuro

Reza Arastoo

David Scott Fisher

Jay Mayur Khandhar

Diwakar N Tundlam

Yuxin Bai

Douglas A MacKay

Thermal conditions can be simulated for an electronic device. Application developers may want to test how applications perform under various thermal conditions on a device that includes thermal management. The application developers can use the tests to determine whether the application should take proactive measures to maintain application performance, and which proactive measures should be taken. For example, an application can reduce its use of resources to ensure that an application maintains a desired quality of user experience (and at a minimum remains responsive) under adverse thermal conditions. Creating adverse conditions can be difficult to replicate, costly to implement, and can potential cause damage to the electronic device being tested. In some examples, simulating thermal conditions can be used instead of placing the device in real-world adverse conditions to improve the testing process for developers.

Systems and methods of testing adverse device conditions

Systems and methods are disclosed for allocating and distributing power management budgets for subsystems (e.g., power usage clients) of a computer system. A power budget allocation subsystem may include a plurality of feedback branches having different associated time constants. Power usage clients with slower power response times may be provided power budgets based on a feedback branch having an associated longer time constant, while power usage clients with faster power response times may be provided with power budgets based on a feedback branch having an associated shorter time constant. The power budgets may be determined in the feedback branches based on power budgeting policies weighting the power budget of each subsystem relative to total power mitigation.

Coherent power management system for managing clients of varying power usage adaptability

A method of an electronic device that includes a power source is disclosed. The method determines a health of the power source, a temperature of the power source, and a state of charge of the power source. The method then sets a performance state cap for the electronic device based on at least the health of the power source.

Battery health-based power management

In an embodiment, an electronic device includes a package power zone controller. The device monitors the overall power consumption of multiple components of a 'package.' The package power zone controller may detect workloads in which the package components (e.g. different types of processors, peripheral hardware, etc.) are each consuming relatively low levels of power, but the overall power consumption is greater than a desired target. The package power zone controller may implement various mechanisms to reduce power consumption in such cases.

Package power zone for limiting power consumption even when individual consumers do not exceed individual limits

Various techniques for temperature management during inductive energy transfer are disclosed. A transmitter device and/or a receiver device can be turned off during energy transfer based on the temperature of the transmitter device and/or of the receiver device.

Temperature management in a wireless energy transfer system

Component power consumption management determining whether the power availability of the power source exceeds the expected power consumption

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device can include a processor to execute instructions; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method. The method can include determining that one or more parameters of a battery of the electronic device, indicative of a health status of the battery, satisfy one or more conditions. In response to determining that the one or more parameters of the battery satisfy the one or more conditions, one or more characteristics of interactions, via one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), between an application running on the electronic device and an operating system of the electronic device can be adjusted.

API behavior modification based on power source health

An electronic device may have electrical components that produce heat during operation. An electronic device may also be heated by sunlight incident on the device. A thermal management model may take into account device structures such as housing materials in modeling the thermal behavior of the device. Temperature sensors in the device may be used to measure internal temperatures. The model may use temperature measurements and other data such as environmental data measured with sensors in predicting temperatures for one or more regions in a device. In response to prediction of a temperature greater than a predetermined threshold, the device may take remedial action to avoid overheating. Remedial action may include adjusting electrical components so that they produce less heat, activating a heat blocking component such as an electronic shutter, and reducing communications activity levels and other software activity levels.

Electronic device with thermal management system

The subject matter of the disclosure relates to low temperature power throttling at a mobile device to reduce the likelihood of an unexpected power down event in cold weather environments. A mobile device employing a power management solution may be configured to determine that a monitored temperature at the mobile device (at the battery of the mobile device) is below a first threshold level, and whether a hardware component (such as a camera) is active or inactive. Then, based on these determinations, the mobile device can select a throttle setting from a first set of throttle settings when the hardware component is active, and a second set of throttle settings when the hardware component is inactive. Subsequently the mobile device can throttle power consumption for one or more components of the mobile device according to the selected throttle setting.

Cold temperature power throttling at a mobile computing device

Computer readable storage mediums, electronic devices, and accessories having stored thereon data structures. A data structure includes a pin selection field operable to identify a connector pin and cause a host device to select one of a plurality of communication protocols for communicating with an accessory over the identified connector pin. The data structure also includes an accessory capability field defining an accessory identifier that uniquely identifies the accessory.

Data structures for facilitating communication between a host device and an accessory

Improved techniques and systems to calibrate an electronic device that is providing activity sensing are disclosed. The activity being sensed can, for example, correspond to walking or running by a user. In one embodiment, calibration can be performed by a portable electronic device so that activity data it receives from a remote sensor device can be more accurately processed. The improved techniques and systems to calibrate can be used to monitor, process, present and manage data captured by a remote sensor. The portable electronic device can also offer a convenient user interface that can be visual and/or audio based, customized to a particular application, user-friendly and/or dynamic. The portable electronic device can pertain to a portable media player and thus also provide media playback.

Calibration techniques for activity sensing devices

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