Patent ID: 7650433

Claim:
A computing device configured to participate in a power management cluster, the computing device comprising: a high-power network interface; a low-power network interface; a power management module comprising: a power management cluster module configured to, at least, connect to at least one other computing device of a plurality of devices in the power management cluster through the low-power network interface so that the connected computing devices participate in a low-power peer-to-peer network via the low-power network interface, each of the plurality of devices has a probability of being designated as the lead device, the probability based on at least one of: an amount of time a device has previously served as the lead device, a residual power of the device, or a mobility pattern of the device; a lead designation module configured to, at least, designate at least one of the devices participating in the network as the lead device of the power management cluster; and a high-power network monitoring module configured to, at least, connect to a high-power network access point through the high-power network interface in response to being designated lead device of the power management cluster such that the lead device is in communication with the high-power network and the low-power peer-to-peer network.