Apple desires its units to do a greater job of alerting customers when the units want charging. The tech large has been granted a patent (quantity US 11966315 B2) for “Sensible Recommendation to Cost Notification.”
Concerning the patent
The patent includes figuring out that an digital gadget must be charged. Particularly, the disclosure is directed to methods and strategies that advise a consumer to cost the digital gadget.
Within the patent Apple notes {that a} trendy battery-powered digital gadget can monitor the cost degree of a number of batteries within the digital gadget. Sometimes, when the battery degree falls under a predetermined threshold worth of remaining cost, then the digital gadget notifies the consumer with a message equivalent to “battery low” or different visible and/or audible indicator of the remaining cost degree.
Nevertheless, Apple notes that, usually, a “battery low” indication that’s primarily based on a hard and fast threshold of cost remaining is just not acquired in time for the consumer to take a corrective motion. For instance, if a consumer usually fees her good telephone at evening, however forgets to take action on one event, receiving a “battery low” indication simply earlier than leaving for work the subsequent day doesn’t go away the consumer time to cost her telephone earlier than work.
Apple says that what’s wanted is a system for predicting when a consumer fees her computing system, and whether or not the computing system cost degree will probably be under a predetermined threshold quantity earlier than the subsequent predicted charging time. After which alerting the consumer that charging is required.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “Techniques and strategies are disclosed for advising a consumer when an power storage gadget in a computing system wants charging. State of cost knowledge of the power storage gadget may be measured and saved at common intervals. The historic state of cost knowledge may be queried over a plurality of intervals and a state of cost curve generated that’s consultant of a consumer’s charging habits over time. The state of cost curve can be utilized to generate a price of cost histogram and an acceleration of cost histogram.
“These can be utilized to foretell when a consumer will cost subsequent, and whether or not the power storage gadget may have an quantity of power under a predetermined threshold quantity earlier than the subsequent predicted charging time. A primary gadget can decide when a second gadget usually fees and whether or not the power storage gadget within the second gadget may have an quantity of power under the predetermined threshold quantity earlier than the subsequent predicted cost time for the second gadget. The primary gadget can generate an recommendation to cost notification to the consumer on both, or each, units.”
