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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 01, 2011
Applicants:

Thomas Michael Josef Zimmermann, Bellevue, WA (US);

Christian Alma Bird, Seattle, WA (US);

Nachiappan Nagappan, Redmond, WA (US);

Syed Masum Emran, Bothell, WA (US);

Thirumalesh Bhat, Sammamish, WA (US);

Ashish Gupta, Delhi, IN;

Inventors:

Thomas Michael Josef Zimmermann, Bellevue, WA (US);

Christian Alma Bird, Seattle, WA (US);

Nachiappan Nagappan, Redmond, WA (US);

Syed Masum Emran, Bothell, WA (US);

Thirumalesh Bhat, Sammamish, WA (US);

Ashish Gupta, Delhi, IN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 21/133 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0254 (2013.01); G06F 1/3268 (2013.01); G06F 3/0625 (2013.01); H04W 52/0258 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques pertaining to analyzing power consumed by a processing unit in a mobile computing device caused by execution of certain modules are described herein. A power trace is generated that indicates an amount of power consumed by the processing unit over time, and the power trace is aligned with an execution log. Spikes are extracted from the power trace, and computing operations are performed over the spikes to acquire data pertaining to power consumed by the processing unit that are attributable to modules in the execution log.


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