Patent ID: 8368358

Claim:
An apparatus to manage power for a mobile device, the apparatus comprising: a state judgment unit to judge whether a battery of the mobile device is being charged and to judge whether an interface connected to a port provided for the charging of the battery of the mobile device is of a first interface type or a second interface type; a voltage level detection unit to detect a voltage level of the battery when the battery is judged as being charged by the second interface type; and a control unit to prevent the mobile device from being turned on when the voltage level detected by the voltage level detection unit is less than a predetermined reference voltage level and when the state judgment unit judges that the battery of the mobile device is being charged by the second interface type, the control unit to allow the mobile device to be turned on even when the voltage level detected by the voltage level detection unit is less than a predetermined reference voltage level when the state judgment unit judges that the battery of the mobile device is being charged by the first interface type.