Power Allocation Rules for Multi-Device Battery Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
When traveling in groups, users often face battery power depletion in devices like tablets and smartphones due to the lack of readily available charging facilities, leading to incomplete utilization of devices before battery power runs out, as existing systems do not proactively manage power usage across multiple devices.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that receive a desired usage plan for multiple user devices, determine the available power, generate usage rules to allocate power among users, and output these rules to limit device usage, suggesting alternative plans if necessary, to ensure continued use without recharging, by analyzing power consumption data and enforcing power limits on each device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users use their user devices without proactive power management, then users can access their devices freely, but battery power is depleted before users can fully utilize their devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary power management actions by proactively planning device usage and generating usage rules before battery power is depleted. The computing device calculates available power across multiple user devices, determines if the desired usage plan is feasible, and establishes usage rules to guide user behavior in advance, preventing power depletion issues before they occur.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring battery power levels across user devices and adjusting usage rules accordingly. The computing device receives information about available power, evaluates the desired usage plan, and provides feedback through generated usage rules that inform users of their allocated power share, enabling dynamic adaptation to changing power conditions.
2Duration of action of moving object
If the system proactively plans and limits usage of user devices based on available power, then users can utilize devices for the intended duration, but user freedom to use devices as desired is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the total available power across multiple user devices by allocating specific power shares to individual users based on the desired usage plan. The computing device divides the aggregate power into discrete allocations for each user, creating manageable segments that can be independently managed and tracked, allowing fair distribution while maintaining overall system sustainability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users share power across user devices without allocation rules, then each user can access any device, but power consumption becomes unmanageable and depletes quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies dynamic power management by generating and enforcing usage rules that adapt to the actual usage patterns and power levels of multiple users. The computing device continuously monitors power consumption against the desired usage plan and adjusts enforcement accordingly, allowing flexible device sharing while maintaining dynamic control over power consumption to prevent rapid depletion.
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AI summary
A method comprises receiving, by a computing device, a desired usage plan for a plurality of user devices associated with a group of users; determining, by the computing device, whether an amount of power available across the plurality of user devices is sufficient to implement the desired usage plan; generating, by the computing device and based on the amount of power available across the plurality of user devices for the desired usage rules, usage rules that allocate the usage of the plurality of the user devices by each user in the group of users; and outputting to the plurality of user devices, the usage rules to cause the plurality of user devices to limit the usage of the plurality of user devices by each user in the group of users based on the allocation.