Google patents smarter power management for wearable devices
Google describes a method for electronic devices to save battery by carefully controlling how different hardware parts use power. The system checks if a component is allowed to increase its power usage before making the change, which helps reduce unnecessary energy drain.
In the filing’s own words
Aspects of the disclosed technology provide power savings via managing power states of hardware of electronic devices. By managing these power states, power consumption, functionality and/or wake latency of electronic devices may be improved over other approaches. Aspects of the disclosed technology include optimizing management of parasitic workloads to improve overall power efficiency of wearable devices, thereby improving device performance. Aspects of the technology include an operating system (OS) serving as a supervisor for another OS.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: communicating, by a processor unit of a computing system, a first request for a processor of the computing system to perform an operation associated with a first component of the computing system; communicating, by the first component based on the first request, a second request to transition a power element to a requested power level, the power element being associated with the operation; and determining, by one or more processors of the computing system, whether to transition the power element to the requested power level based on one or more power level dependencies of the power element.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- Management of Power States of Devices and Systems
- Publication number
- US20260267398A1
- Application number
- 19288550
- Filed
- Aug 1, 2025
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 10
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 1/3293 Physics & computingMore from Google in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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