Patent ID: 8307222

Claim:
An information handling system, comprising: a system load; a battery system having a main battery conductor path coupled to power the system load, the battery system comprising: battery cell circuitry including multiple battery cells coupled together in the main battery conductor path in at least one of series relationship, parallel relationship, or a combination thereof, one or more switching devices coupled to selectively bypass or remove each of the multiple battery cells separately from the main battery conductor path of the battery cell circuitry; at least one processing device coupled to control the one or more switching devices to selectively bypass or remove one or more of the multiple battery cells separately from the main battery conductor path of the battery cell circuitry while leaving one or more others of the multiple battery cells included in the main battery conductor path of the battery cell so that the battery cell remains capable of powering the information handling system load; and memory coupled to the at least one processing device having stored thereon a lookup table of predetermined battery cell configurations versus information handling system status; and where the at least one processing device is coupled to: determine a modified battery cell configuration corresponding to a present operating status of the information handling system by accessing the lookup table stored in the memory, the modified battery cell configuration being different than a current battery cell configuration, and change the current battery cell configuration to the determined modified battery cell configuration by bypassing or removing one or more of the multiple battery cells separately from the main battery conductor path of the battery cell circuitry while leaving one or more others of the multiple battery cells included in the main battery conductor path of the battery cell so that the battery cell remains capable of powering the information handling system load.