Patent ID: 8090826

Claim:
One or more computer-readable storage media embodying computer-executable components for conserving power in a mobile device, the computer-readable storage media not being propagating signals, said components comprising: a schedule component for determining a future time of availability of a power-consuming resource, said power-consuming resource being associated with the mobile device; a condition component for identifying a plurality of schedules stored in a memory area that consume the resource during execution, said plurality of schedules being associated with one or more computing devices, said computing devices being connected to the mobile device via a network, each of said plurality of schedules having a recurrent activation time and a tolerance factor and, upon execution by the computing devices, causing data to be transmitted from the computing devices to the mobile device; an aggregation component for selecting one or more of the identified plurality of schedules for which a difference between the recurrent activation time and the future time of availability determined by the schedule component is within the tolerance factor; a conservation component for adjusting the recurrent activation time for the schedules selected by the aggregation component as a function of the future time of availability determined by the schedule component; and an interface component for sending to the computing devices the adjusted, recurrent activation time for the schedules selected by the aggregation component, wherein the computing devices execute the schedules selected by the aggregation component at the adjusted, recurrent activation time to use the power-consuming resource of the mobile device while the resource is available.