Patent 9954991 was granted and assigned to Xiaomi on April, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A status notification method for use in a terminal, includes: acquiring usage information of a target apparatus, the usage information including at least each usage duration of the target apparatus; calculating current consumption of the target apparatus according to the usage information of the target apparatus; and generating an alert regarding a current status of the target apparatus after the current consumption of the target apparatus reaches a preset consumption alerting threshold.