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System and method for providing interconnected and secure mobile device charging stations

  • US 10,070,250 B2
  • Filed: 11/28/2016
  • Issued: 09/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A publicly available mobile device charging system, comprising:

  • one or more charging kiosks having a plurality of secure lockers sized and shaped to accommodate a mobile telephonic device therein, each secure locker configured to hold therewithin and charge a battery of a single mobile device at a time;

    computing memory having associated therewith code configured to provide;

    kiosk location and associated information for one of the charging kiosks;

    charging profile information of a plurality of different prospective ones of the mobile device to be charged in one of the secure lockers; and

    a processor communicatively coupled with the computing memory, configured to execute the code to;

    based on the kiosk location and associated information, allow a networked server to determine a proximity of the one or more charging kiosks to a location of one of the mobile devices, and to provide the proximity and directions to the proximate one or more charging kiosks the one of the mobile devices; and

    once one of the mobile devices is physically associated with the locker of the one of the charging kiosks, optimally charging the one of the mobile devices by causing the charging kiosk to cycle through the charging profile information to arrive at an optimal one of the charging profile information for the mobile device within the locker, wherein device data on the mobile device is maintained as inaccessible to the code.

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