Patent ID: 8832486
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: G06F,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of predicting the power consumption of a battery-powered mobile terminal used for carrying out a sequence of user activities, wherein each user activity involves an interaction with the terminal and wherein each user activity causes one or more terminal activities involving power consumption of the terminal, the method comprising the steps of: determining, for each user activity, terminal activities caused by each user activity, carrying out a series of user activities, the terminal activities caused by the series of user activities involving at least all terminal activities caused by the sequence of user activities, measuring the power consumption of the terminal while carrying out the series of user activities, deriving a power consumption of each terminal activity from measured power consumption of the terminal during the measuring step, adding, for each of the user activities of the sequence of user activities, power consumption of respective terminal activities caused by each particular user activity to obtain the power consumption of the respective user activity, and adding the respective power consumption of the user activities of the sequence of user activities to obtain the power consumption of the sequence of user activities.