Patent ID: 8255720

Claim:
A computer-implemented power management method, comprising: identifying, on a mobile computing device, a computer process that, to be performed, requires substantial portions of battery storage on the mobile computing device; deferring execution of the identified process while the mobile computing device is not connected to a power source that is for charging the battery storage and that is external to the mobile computing device; sensing that the mobile computing device has been connected to the power source; and triggering performance of the process in response to sensing that the mobile computing device has been connected to the power source, wherein said triggering performance of the process comprises waiting to trigger performance of the process in response to the mobile computing device being connected to the power source until a charge level of the battery storage has reached a determined level, and wherein the determined level is determined to be a level that is adequate to complete the process without exhausting the battery storage on the device if the device is disconnected from the power source before the process has completed.