Patent ID: 9703336
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G05D,G06F,H04M,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for controlling processing performance in a portable computing device (“PCD”), the method comprising: establishing a first device definition for the PCD, wherein a device definition comprises a use case for the PCD and is associated with one or more temperature thresholds; monitoring a plurality of indicators in the PCD, wherein the plurality of indicators includes a signal indicating a proximity of a user of the PCD and one or more signals indicating how the PCD is being used; identifying a second use case of the PCD based on the plurality of monitored indicators in the PCD, wherein the second use case of the PCD is defined by an amount of physical contact a user of the PCD will have with the PCD and how the PCD is being used; identifying a second device definition associated with the identified second use case; determining that the second device definition is different from the first device definition; and redefining the first device definition of the PCD to the second device definition, wherein redefining to the second device definition comprises modifying a skin temperature threshold to a second level and adjusting one or more additional temperature thresholds to adjust performance constraints on the processing components within the PCD to a desired processing performance of the PCD for the identified second use case.