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Method and apparatus for providing a remote lost-and-found service

  • US 10,397,783 B2
  • Filed: 04/22/2016
  • Issued: 08/27/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • initiating, by an apparatus, a pairing of a device and a local sensor, wherein the local sensor is a short-range communication transponder;

    determining, by the apparatus, that the local sensor is beyond a predetermined distance from the device for more than a predetermined time;

    initiating, by the apparatus, a transmission of a request to locate the local sensor to one or more other devices via one or more networks that include one or more wireless networks, wherein the request includes an incentive for locating the local sensor; and

    initiating, by the apparatus, a change in a profile status of the local sensor stored in the local sensor from accessible only to the device into accessible to at least one of the one or more other devices based on an access code, wherein the access code is an identifier different from a manufacturer-assigned device identifier, and wherein the change in the profile status of the local sensor is written into a programmable memory of the local sensor that stores the profile status of the local sensor, without storing a profile status of the device or a profile status of the at least one of the one or more other devices.

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