Patent ID: 7185211
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: G06F,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of managing power consumption of software applications on a computing device having a plurality of power management states, comprising: identifying one or more user selectable features of one or more software applications and holding a selection choice for each of said one or more user selectable features for the plurality of power management states; recognizing a change of power management state from an old state to a new state, and imposing the selection choice for each of said one or more user selectable features on at least one of the one or more software applications on the computing device for the new power management state, wherein imposing the selection choice comprises providing an input to a particular software application from an executable structure outside of the particular software application; and wherein the executable structure that imposes the selection choice provides the input to the particular software application in a macro language appropriate to the particular software application.