MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF DETERMINING AND DISPLAYING POWER EFFICIENCY OF AN APPLICATION

• Main Authors: CHOI, JONG-BUM, KIM, HYUNG-HOON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 25.05.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION ANDCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION ANDCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THIR OWNENERGY USE; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; PHYSICS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE

A method and mobile terminal for determining a power efficiency of an application installed in and executed by a mobile terminal. The method includes: determining power consumption per unit time according to units of the installed and executed application; and determining a power efficiency level of the installed and executed application based on the determined power consumption per unit time. The mobile terminal includes: a power consumption determiner configured to determine power consumption per unit time according to units of the installed and executed application; and a level determiner configured to determine a power efficiency level of the installed and executed application based on the determined power consumption per unit time.