Efficient Prisoner Tracking
First Claim
9. A method of tracking a wireless prisoner tracking device, comprising:
- maintaining a map of a plurality of prisoner tracking devices to a respective plurality of femto-cell IDs respectively assigned to serve each of said plurality of prisoner tracking devices; and
a tracking service to initiate location requests for those of said plurality of prisoner tracking devises when reported as no longer in communication with an assigned femto-cell, said tracking service ceasing said periodic location requests for those of said plurality of prisoner tracking devices currently in communication with its respectively assigned femto-cell.
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Abstract
A network tracking server-based service that implements an efficient network management of location requests associated with tracking a prisoner'"'"'s wireless tracking device. The tracking server initiates location requests associated with a given prisoner (or the like) tracking device in a trustworthy, but much more efficient and manageable technique, from the perspective of the network. Network management of prisoner device tracking is made efficient when inside a given geofence, but once outside the prescribed geofence a more detailed inquisition is immediately launched—even before the top of the hour (or whenever the typical periodic location request occur). From a management perspective, once detected to no longer be inside (and thus is outside) an expected or assigned geofence, the prisoner tracking device is presumed less trustworthy, and thus then periodic location requests to the tracking device are initiated.
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17 Claims
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9. A method of tracking a wireless prisoner tracking device, comprising:
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maintaining a map of a plurality of prisoner tracking devices to a respective plurality of femto-cell IDs respectively assigned to serve each of said plurality of prisoner tracking devices; and a tracking service to initiate location requests for those of said plurality of prisoner tracking devises when reported as no longer in communication with an assigned femto-cell, said tracking service ceasing said periodic location requests for those of said plurality of prisoner tracking devices currently in communication with its respectively assigned femto-cell. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12)
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12-1. The method of tracking a wireless prisoner tracking device according to claim 11, wherein:
wherein said predetermined schedule is once per hour.
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13. A wireless prisoner tracking device tracking server, comprising:
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means for maintaining a map of a plurality of prisoner tracking devices to a respective plurality of femto-cell IDs respectively assigned to serve each of said plurality of prisoner tracking devices; and tracking service means for initiating location requests for those of said plurality of prisoner tracking devises when reported as no longer in communication with an assigned femto-cell, said tracking service means ceasing said periodic location requests for those of said plurality of prisoner tracking devices currently in communication with its respectively assigned femto-cell. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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