Patent ID: 8700931

Claim:
A method comprising: collecting consumption information relating to a power source of a mobile device for execution of one or more tasks performed at the mobile device; determining a pattern of use with respect to the one or more tasks based on the collected consumption information; selecting an action to conserve usage of the power source, according to the pattern of use, in response to subsequent execution of the one or more tasks; initiating the action, wherein the action includes performing the one or more tasks at a scheduled time, ending performance of the one or more tasks, delaying performance of the one or more tasks, disabling a feature of the one or more tasks, or a combination thereof; and assigning a priority to each of the tasks based on a weighted average of a pattern of total usage time for each task within a charge cycle and a rate at which said each task will consume the power source, wherein an order of the initiation of the action, among a plurality of actions corresponding to the tasks, is determined according to the assigned priorities.