International Business Machines Corporation
Selectively uploading applications to a mobile device based on power consumption

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls uploading applications to a mobile device. A server receives a power descriptor from a mobile device, where the power descriptor identifies an amount of power available to the mobile device from a battery on the mobile device. The server receives a set of application downloading rules for the mobile device, where the set of application downloading rules comprises a medium rule, and where the medium rule prioritizes downloading a second application over a first application in response to the amount of power available to the mobile device from the battery being below a predetermined value. The server receives a request to upload the first application and the second application to the mobile device and a rule selection message. The server uploads to the mobile device the first application after uploading the second application based on the selected medium rule.