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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
May. 13, 2013
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Kanata, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring the deterioration of a rechargeable battery. A battery monitoring system may be used to store charging information, discharge information and storage information for a rechargeable battery to a data store. The charging information may include a number of charge cycles incurred by the rechargeable battery. The discharge information may include a number discharge cycles incurred by the rechargeable battery. The storage information may include information relating to periods when the rechargeable battery is not being actively charged or discharged. The battery monitoring system may be further used to determine an amount of deterioration of a battery performance characteristic based on the stored charging information, discharge information and storage information.