Patent ID: 9367113
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of managing power consumption in a modem of a mobile device, comprising: receiving, from an application running on the mobile device, a request for a power consumption metric indicating a cost of transmitting, from the mobile device, a pending wireless data transaction originating at the application, wherein the request is received while the modem is in an idle state; buffering the request while the modem is in the idle state until a scheduled power-up of the modem associated with checking for paging messages; measuring, after the modem powers up to check for the paging messages during the scheduled power-up, a receive power associated with a receiver of the modem; estimating the power consumption metric at a transmitter of the modem based on the measured receive power associated with the receiver; providing an indication of the power consumption metric to the application that originated the pending wireless data transaction; and determining, by the application that originated the pending wireless data transaction, whether to transmit the pending wireless data transaction at a first time based at least in part on the estimated power consumption metric.