Systems and methods for geofence security

• US 10,582,333 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2017
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GeoFrenzy, Inc
• Original Assignee: GeoFrenzy, Inc
• Inventors: Jones, Benjamin T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Waugh, Thorne E
• Application Number:
  US15/626,928
• Publication Number:
  US 20170303082A1
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19621 Portable camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1965 the vehicle being an aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/006 in accordance with predefined flight zones, e.g. to avoid prohibited zones
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0069 specially adapted for an unmanned aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/659 Internet protocol version 6 [IPv6] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/088 Usage controlling of secret information, e.g. techniques for restricting cryptographic keys to pre-authorized uses, different access levels, validity of crypto-period, different key- or password length, or different strong and weak cryptographic algorithms network architectures or network communication protocols for using time-dependent keys in a packet data network H04L63/068
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]

Abstract

Systems and methods for geofence information delivery are disclosed. A multiplicity of devices constructed and configured in network communication in a region of interest via a peer-to-peer network. The multiplicity of devices store cached geofence information for the region of interest. The multiplicity of devices on the peer-to-peer network are operable to convert between an IP address and a geographic location. Each of the multiplicity of devices is operable to query peer devices on the peer-to-peer network for geofences associated with an IP address or a geographic location. At least one peer device is operable to deliver one or more geofences associated with the IP address to the querying device via zero-configuration networking or web service.

Claims

1. A system for geofence information delivery, comprising:

at least two devices constructed and configured for network communication in a region of interest via a peer-to-peer network;

wherein the at least two devices comprise at least one processor coupled with at least one memory;

wherein the at least one memory is operable to cache geofence data associated with the region of interest;

wherein the at least one processor is operable to convert between an Internet Protocol (IP) address and a coordinate point of a geographic location, determine at least one unique identifier for at least one geofence based on the IP address, query the geofence data cached on at least one peer device of the at least two devices, and identify one or more geofences associated with the at least one unique identifier in the region of interest; and

wherein the at least two devices are operable to deliver geofence information associated with the one or more geofences in the region of interest.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two devices are operable for location determination by at least one of the following methods:

Global Positioning System (GPS), iBeacon, Wi-Fi, magnetometer, and inertial navigation.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the cached geofence data comprises anchor points, fence points, metadata, classes, and entitlements for geofences associated with the region of interest.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the IP address is an IPv6 address.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two devices are selected from the group consisting of modems, routers, beacons, mobile devices, and other devices operable for network communication.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two devices are operable to communicate with each other via at least one of the following communication protocols:

Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), 3G, LTE, LTE Direct, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communication (NFC), iBeacon, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Data Distribution Service (DDS), Zigbee, Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two devices are operable to query the geofence data cached on at least one peer device via a routing protocol selected from the group consisting of anycast, geocast, and georouting.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two devices are operable to deliver the one or more geofences associated with the geographic location via web service.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two devices are operable to deliver the one or more geofences associated with the geographic location via zero-configuration networking.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one server operable to populate the geofence data cached on the at least two devices.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the geofence data cached on the at least two devices is from prior queries on the at least two devices.

12. A method of geofence information delivery, comprising:

providing at least two devices constructed and configured for network communication in a region of interest via a peer-to-peer network, the at least two devices storing cached geofence data for the region of interest;

at least one device of the at least two devices on the peer-to-peer network obtaining its geolocation information;

the at least one device converting the geolocation information to an IP address;

the at least one device determining at least one unique identifier based on the IP address;

the at least one device querying the cached geofence data on at least one peer device of the at least two devices associated with the at least one unique identifier;

the at least one device identifying one or more geofences associated with the at least one unique identifier in the region of interest; and

the at least one peer device of the at least two devices delivering geofence information associated with the one or more geofences associated with the IP address to the at least one device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the cached geofence data comprises anchor points, fence points, metadata, classes, and entitlements for geofences associated with the region of interest.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the IP address is an IPv6 address.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising the at least one device querying peer devices for anchor points for geofences within the region of interest.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising the at least one peer device delivering anchor points and meta data for geofences within the region of interest.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising the at least one device querying peer devices based on at least one anchor point within the region of interest.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising the at least one peer device delivering fence points associated with the at least one anchor point.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising the at least one peer device delivering the one or more geofences associated with the IP address to the at least one device via zero-configuration networking or web service.

20. The method of claim 12, further comprising at least one server populating the cached geofence data on the at least two devices.