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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Marco Nelissen, San Jose, CA (US);
Mathias Marc Agopian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/038 (2013.01); H04M 1/22 (2006.01); G09G 3/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/22 (2013.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01); G09G 3/3406 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling the lighted display of a mobile device are disclosed. The backlight of or active power supplied to a display is reduced or deactivated after a certain period based on the application running on the mobile device, rather than being a uniform deactivation time. The system and method can be used on a variety of mobile devices having a display screen.