AGGREGATING RECURRENT SCHEDULES TO OPTIMISE RESOURCE CONSUMPTION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G06F1/32 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method includes steps of: receiving an event notification. The received event notification indicates that a resource associated with a computing device is available. A plurality of recurrent schedules is accessed. Each of said plurality of recurrent schedules has a given activation time and a tolerance factor associated therewith. One or more accessed schedules are identified as a function of the received event notification, current time, given activation time and tolerance factor for each accessed schedule, and the identified schedules are activated to consume said available resource.

EFFECT: reduced power consumption and longer device battery life owing to identification of schedules based on a received notification on resource availability, activation time and tolerance factor.

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