US Patent 7505753 Distribution of tasks over time in a mobile terminal

The invention relates to a method, a device and a process for distributing various tasks performed by a mobile terminal (101) over time. The idea of the invention is to increase talk and standby times of said terminal (101) by executing as many power consuming, delayable tasks as possible when the terminal is connected to a charging device (102). Advanced solution exploits e.g. ideal task execution time intervals, the calculation of which is based on gathered user profile information. An intelligent charging device (102) with memory and processing means to share the task execution with said terminal (101) or to completely take care of some tasks on behalf of said terminal (101) is presented.