Patent ID: 8732505

Claim:
A method for reducing energy consumption of an electronic terminal, wherein said method comprises: modifying a timeout-before-standby duration for said terminal after an action performed by or on said terminal at a current instant depending on membership of the current instant in a given temporal category, from among at least two predefined temporal categories, taking account of a parameter representing an estimated tolerance of a set of users of said terminal to a time lag in execution of an action by or on said terminal; a preliminary phase of computing statistics on a number of actions performed by and/or on said terminal during a recurrent predetermined period, delivering a function x(t) variable as a function of time and representing an estimated number of actions during said predetermined period; comparing, at a predetermined instant t, the value of the function x(t) with at least one predetermined threshold denoted as x 0 : and wherein said predetermined threshold x 0 is a function of a penalty value α representing the estimated tolerance of the set of users of the terminal to a time lag for execution of an action by or on said terminal.