Patent ID: 8285340

Claim:
A battery-operated electronic device comprising: a phone interface; a battery; a wireless transceiver; a display; a processor configured to execute different software applications; one or more persistent data storage devices; and memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations for providing information regarding power consumption, the operations including: monitoring activities associated with each of the phone interface, the wireless transceiver, the display and the different software applications; based on the monitoring, determining corresponding amounts of power consumed individually by each of the phone interface, the wireless transceiver, the display and the different software applications; storing, using the one or more persistent data storage devices, a first structured collection of information characterizing power consumed by the different software applications during a present period, wherein the one or more persistent data storage devices store a second structured collection of information characterizing power consumed by the different software applications over a long term period, the long term period being longer than the present period; displaying, using the display, individual power consumption information for each of the phone interface, the wireless transceiver, the display and the different software applications based on the amounts determined by the processor; and displaying, using the display, a presentation that identifies different classes of periods and indications of average amounts of power consumed by the different software applications in the different classes of periods.