Patent ID: 8200209

Claim:
A method of indicating power consumption of an electronic device, the method comprising: using circuitry within the electronic device to make power consumption-indicating measurements of the electronic device at predetermined time intervals; and providing each of the power consumption-indicating measurements to a user of the device, wherein providing each of the power consumption-indicating measurements to a user of the device comprises incorporating each of the power consumption-indicating measurements in a debug printout generated by the electronic device, wherein the debug printout includes information that indicates one or more software modes/states of the electronic device at one or more points in time, wherein incorporating each of the power consumption-indicating measurements in the debug printout generated by the device comprises incorporating the power consumption-indicating measurements at respective locations of the debug printout that correspond to respective measurement times of the power consumption-indicating measurements to thereby synchronize the power consumption-indicating measurements with the information that indicates the one or more software modes/states of the electronic device at one or more points in time.