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Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2015
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Patrick L. Stemen, Seattle, WA (US);

Nicholas S. Judge, Bellevue, WA (US);

Tristan A. Brown, Bellevue, WA (US);

Dean L. DeWhitt, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4893 (2013.01); G06F 1/329 (2013.01); Y02D 10/24 (2018.01);
Abstract

In embodiments of an idle time service, it can be determined that processing on a device is in an idle state. An execution duration of applications that are scheduled to be executed by a processor of the device can then be extended to reduce power consumption by the device. In other embodiments, it can be determined that an application configured to execute on a device is a background application. The execution duration of the background application can then be extended to reduce power consumption by the device.


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