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Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2008
Applicants:

Anh P. Tran, Seattle, WA (US);

Lloyd Alfred Moore, Renton, WA (US);

Christopher Todd Guillory, Kirkland, WA (US);

Hugh Teegan, Bellevue, WA (US);

John Mark Miller, Kirkland, WA (US);

Adam Sapek, Redmond, WA (US);

Keith C. Bentley, Redmond, WA (US);

Poonam Ganesh Hattangady, Seattle, WA (US);

Albert Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Anh P. Tran, Seattle, WA (US);

Lloyd Alfred Moore, Renton, WA (US);

Christopher Todd Guillory, Kirkland, WA (US);

Hugh Teegan, Bellevue, WA (US);

John Mark Miller, Kirkland, WA (US);

Adam Sapek, Redmond, WA (US);

Keith C. Bentley, Redmond, WA (US);

Poonam Ganesh Hattangady, Seattle, WA (US);

Albert Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Coalescing schedules that use a resource to extend battery life. Each of the schedules is defined to execute at a recurrent activation time within a defined tolerance. After receiving notification of an event, the schedules are accessed to identify the schedules that may be executed early based on their activation time and tolerance. The identified schedules are aggregated for execution.


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