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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2012
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jory Bell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5094 (2013.01);
Abstract
A logical battery partitioning approach is disclosed. In one embodiment, a power management system in a portable computing device having a plurality of subsystems can include: (i) a battery coupled to a plurality of subsystems; (ii) a first battery variable provided to a first subsystem to indicate a characteristic of a first logical battery partition; and (iii) a second battery variable provided to a second subsystem to indicate a characteristic of a second logical battery partition. A battery variable can include an accessibility control, or a percent of battery power available, for example.