US 12,294,233 B2
Portable device communicating with charger and method of operating the same
Sangun Bang, Seongnam-si (KR); Dongjo Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jinsoo Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Woonhyung Heo, Seoul (KR); Dongjoon Kim, Seoul (KR); and Sungeun Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/299,377.
Application 18/299,377 is a continuation of application No. 17/315,823, filed on May 10, 2021, granted, now 11,652,356.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0105535 (KR), filed on Aug. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0253811 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/3827 (2015.01); H04B 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC H02J 7/0068 (2013.01) [H02J 7/00306 (2020.01); H04B 1/3827 (2013.01); H04B 3/02 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a portable device, which performs power line communication with a charger external thereto, the method comprising:
during a first period comprising a period in which the power line communication occurs, cutting off supply of first power, which is provided by the charger, to an electrical load and supplying second power from a battery to the electrical load;
when the first period is terminated, from the first power, charging the battery and supplying power to the electrical load; and
during the first period, cutting off the supply of the first power to the battery.