METHOD AND APPARATUS USING GEOFENCE TO TRACK INDIVIDUAL GROUP MEMBERS
First Claim
1. An apparatus using a geofence to track individual group members, comprising:
- a first mobile communication device associated with a member of a group of subjects to be tracked via geolocation, the first mobile device including;
a geolocation determination circuit;
a communication circuit;
a display;
a user input;
a processor;
a memory circuit including instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the first mobile device to perform operations including;
receive information indicative of a geolocation of a second device associated with a member of the group of subjects to be tracked via geolocation;
display, using the display, a map image together with a geofence image that indicate a region of the map bounded by the geofence;
display the respective geolocations of the first mobile device and the second mobile device relative to the map image and relative to the geofence image;
generate or receive information indicative of the respective geolocations of the first and second mobile devices relative to the geofence; and
generate or receive an alert message in response to a determination that one or more of the first or second mobile devices is located outside the geofence or within a prescribed distance of the geofence.
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Abstract
A method is provided to track geolocations of multiple mobile location tracking enabled devices, each such device associated with at least one member of a group of subjects; one of the devices sends a map image of a real-world location and indicia of geofence to each of the other devices; each of multiple devices sends its geolocation to at least one other device in the group; the at least one device in the group displays the respective geolocations of the other devices relative to the map image and relative to the geofence image; an alert is generated by the at least one other device in the group in response to a determination that at least one of the devices in the group is disposed outside the geofence or within a prescribed distance from the geofence.
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25 Claims
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1. An apparatus using a geofence to track individual group members, comprising:
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a first mobile communication device associated with a member of a group of subjects to be tracked via geolocation, the first mobile device including; a geolocation determination circuit; a communication circuit; a display; a user input; a processor; a memory circuit including instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the first mobile device to perform operations including; receive information indicative of a geolocation of a second device associated with a member of the group of subjects to be tracked via geolocation; display, using the display, a map image together with a geofence image that indicate a region of the map bounded by the geofence; display the respective geolocations of the first mobile device and the second mobile device relative to the map image and relative to the geofence image; generate or receive information indicative of the respective geolocations of the first and second mobile devices relative to the geofence; and generate or receive an alert message in response to a determination that one or more of the first or second mobile devices is located outside the geofence or within a prescribed distance of the geofence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method to track geolocations of multiple mobile location tracking enabled devices, each such device associated with at least one member of a group of subjects, the method comprising:
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sending from one of the devices indicia of a map image of a real-world location to each of the other devices; sending indicia of geofence from the one of the devices to each of the other devices; receiving by the at least one of the devices in the group from each of the other of the multiple devices indicia of their geolocations; displaying by the at least one of the devices in the group the respective geolocations of the other devices relative to the map image and relative to the geofence image; and generating an alert by the at least one of the devices in the group in response to a determination that at least one of the other devices of the group is disposed outside the geofence or within a prescribed distance from the geofence. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method to track geolocations of multiple mobile location tracking enabled devices, each such device associated with at least one member of a group of subjects, the method comprising:
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at a first mobile device associated with a member of the group, receiving; information indicative of the geolocations of the multiple mobile devices associated with the members of the group; and at the first mobile device, displaying; a map image together with a geofence image that indicate a region of the map bounded by the geofence; the respective geolocations of the multiple mobile devices relative to the map image and relative to the geofence image; and generating an alert at the first mobile device in response to a determination that one or more of the multiple mobile devices is located outside the geofence or has come within a prescribed distance from the geofence. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. An article of manufacture including computer readable storage device encoded with program instruction code to cause a mobile location tracking enabled device to perform a process that includes:
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receiving an invitation to join a group; receiving group member identifying information associated with other mobile location tracking enabled devices of other group members; receiving geofence location identifying information; determining geolocation of the device; sending the determined geolocation information of the to the devices of the other group members identified in the group member identifying information; receiving geolocation information from the devices of the other group members identified in the group member identifying information; displaying on the device, geofence location of at least one of the devices of at least one other group member; and sending a message to a device of at least one other group member in response to the wireless mobile device coming within a prescribed relative location of the geofence. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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