Systems and Methods for Tracking Mobile Devices
First Claim
1. A method to determine whether a mobile, global positioning system (GPS) enabled device is within a predetermined distance of a location, comprising the steps of:
- providing an account comprising an identification of a mobile, global positioning system (GPS) enabled device with a service;
locating an establishment on a coordinate system;
establishing a boundary around the establishment located on the coordinate system;
receiving information identifying the location of the mobile, GPS enabled device;
determining whether the mobile, GPS enabled device is within the boundary established about the establishment;
if it is determined that the mobile, GPS enabled device is within the boundary established about the establishment, transmitting a signal to the mobile, GPS enabled device to activate a GPS location module;
receiving a position of the mobile, GPS enabled device from the GPS location module; and
identifying the position of the mobile, GPS enabled device about the boundary area.
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Abstract
The present application provides for mobile, wireless devices to be tracked passively using triangulation (via cellular towers or solar canopies as explained in some of the related applications identified above and expressly incorporated herein by reference) to provide information to a service regarding when a client device accesses the area. When the client device enters an identified location, which may be designated by a geo-fence, an activation signal is transmitted to the mobile, wireless device to activate a global positioning location module, which provides more accurate position information. The mobile, wireless device may be registered as being located at the identified location.
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19 Claims
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1. A method to determine whether a mobile, global positioning system (GPS) enabled device is within a predetermined distance of a location, comprising the steps of:
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providing an account comprising an identification of a mobile, global positioning system (GPS) enabled device with a service; locating an establishment on a coordinate system; establishing a boundary around the establishment located on the coordinate system; receiving information identifying the location of the mobile, GPS enabled device; determining whether the mobile, GPS enabled device is within the boundary established about the establishment; if it is determined that the mobile, GPS enabled device is within the boundary established about the establishment, transmitting a signal to the mobile, GPS enabled device to activate a GPS location module; receiving a position of the mobile, GPS enabled device from the GPS location module; and identifying the position of the mobile, GPS enabled device about the boundary area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method to determine whether a mobile, global positioning system (GPS) enabled device is within a predetermined distance of a location, comprising the steps of:
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receiving from a plurality of wireless transmitters proximate an area having a boundary known location information for each of the plurality of wireless transmitters; determining a signal strength of a wireless device in communication with at least one of the plurality of wireless transmitters proximate the area; tracking a position of the wireless device within the area based on the signal strength between the wireless device and the at least one of the plurality of wireless transmitters; identifying when the wireless device within the area is in proximity to a merchant located in the area; and transmitting merchant data to the wireless device. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A network operation center for identifying a location of a registered mobile device, the network operation center comprising:
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a receiver module, the receiver module to receive data about a registered mobile device; a locator module, the locator module to use the data about the registered mobile device to determine a location of the registered mobile device; a geo-fence module, the geo-fence module to establish a geo-fence boundary around an area; a determinator module, the determinator module to determine whether the mobile device location is in the geo-fence boundary area; a global positioning system (GPS) trigger module, the GPS trigger module to transmit a signal to the mobile device to activate a GPS location module in the mobile device; and a GPS module, the GPS module to receive position data from the GPS module in the mobile device.
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17. The network operation center further comprising location based services to calculate a position of the mobile device based on the received position data from the GPS module in the mobile device.
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18. The network operation center further comprising an advertisement module, the advertisement module to transmit advertisements to the mobile device based on the position of the mobile device.
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19. The network operation center further comprising a social feed module to automatically update a status of a social media network based on the position of the registered mobile device.
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