USER LOCATION TRACKING

• US 20150296346A1
• Filed: 05/29/2015
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ACR Development, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ACR Development, Inc.
• Inventors: Hammond, Michael P. Jr., Rose, Douglas J., Roman, Anthony Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/725,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20150296346A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving information from a remote system comprising one or more time periods during which a location of the client device can be tracked and monitoring the location of the client device during each of the time periods by obtaining a plurality of location coordinates from the client device during the time period and persistently storing the location coordinates on the client device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining by a client device a plurality of locations of the client device at different times, each location being associated with a respective bearing and speed of the client device;

for each of the locations, if the associated speed is in a first speed range that is greater than zero miles per hour;

calculating a change in bearing from a previously obtained bearing and the bearing associated with the location;

if the change in bearing exceeds a bearing threshold saving the location and the associated bearing and speed; and

sending the saved locations and associated bearings and speeds to a remote system.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the associated speed is in a second speed range that s greater than the first speed range;

if a change in bearing from a most recently obtained bearing and the bearing associated with the location exceeds the bearing threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed;

or

if a difference between a current time and a time that the most recently obtained location was obtained exceeds an update threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the associated speed is in a third speed range that is less than the first speed range;

if a difference between a current time and a time that a most recently obtained location was obtained exceeds an update threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the first speed range is less than or equal to walking speed.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting that a user has disabled location tracking on the client device and, in response, locking the client device.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein detecting that the user has disabled location tracking further comprises sending a notification of such to the remote system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the client device, information from the remote system comprising one or more time periods during which the location of the client device can be obtained and only obtaining the locations during those time periods.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the plurality of locations does not require a transmitter of the client device to be enabled.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the saved locations and associated bearings and speeds to the remote system comprises sending at times when a transmitter of the client device is enabled.

10. A system comprising:

data processing apparatus programmed to perform operations comprising;

obtaining by a client device a plurality of locations of the client device at different times, each location being associated with a respective bearing and speed of the client device;

for each of the locations, if the associated speed is in a first speed range that is greater than zero miles per hour;

calculating a change in bearing from a previously obtained bearing and the bearing associated with the location;

if the change in bearing exceeds a bearing threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed; and

sending the saved locations and associated bearings and speeds to a remote system.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the operations further comprise:

if the associated speed is in a second speed range that is greater than the first speed range;

if a change in bearing from a most recently obtained bearing and the bearing associated with the location exceeds the bearing threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed;

or

if a difference between a current time and a time that the most recently obtained location was obtained exceeds an update threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the operations further comprise:

if the associated speed is in a third speed range that is less than the first speed range;

if a difference between a current time and a time that a most recently obtained location was obtained exceeds an update threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the first speed range is less than or equal to walking speed.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting that a user has disabled location tracking on the client device and, in response, locking the client device.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein detecting that the user has disabled location tracking further comprises sending a notification of such to the remote system.

16. The system of claim 10 wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, by the client device, information from the remote system comprising one or more time periods during which the location of the client device can be obtained and only obtaining the locations during those time periods.

17. The system of claim 10 wherein obtaining the plurality of locations does not require a transmitter of the client device to be enabled.

18. The system of claim 10 wherein sending the saved locations and associated bearings and speeds to the remote system comprises sending at times when a transmitter of the client device is enabled.

19. A non-transitory storage device having instructions stored thereon that when executed by data processing apparatus perform operations comprising:

obtaining by a client device a plurality of locations of the client device at different times, each location being associated with a respective bearing and speed of the client device;

for each of the locations, if the associated speed is in a first speed range that is greater than zero miles per hour;

calculating a change in bearing from a previously obtained bearing and the bearing associated with the location;

if the change in bearing exceeds a bearing threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed; and

sending the saved locations and associated bearings and speeds to a remote system.

20. The storage device of claim 19 wherein the operations further comprise:

if the associated speed is in a second speed range that is greater than the first speed range;

if a change in bearing from a most recently obtained bearing and the bearing associated with the location exceeds the bearing threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed;

or

if a difference between a current time and a time that the most recently obtained location was obtained exceeds an update threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed.

21. The storage device of claim 19 wherein the operations further comprise:

if the associated speed is in a third speed range that is less than the first speed range;

if a difference between a current time and a time that a most recently obtained location was obtained exceeds an update threshold, saving the location and the associated bearing and speed.

22. The storage device of claim 19 wherein the first speed range is less than or equal to walking speed.

23. The storage device of claim 19 wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting that a user has disabled location tracking on the client device and, in response, locking the client device.

24. The storage device of claim 23 wherein detecting that the user has disabled location tracking further comprises sending a notification of such to the remote storage device.

25. The storage device of claim 19 wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, by the client device, information from the remote storage device comprising one or more time periods during which the location of the client device can be obtained and only obtaining the locations during those time periods.

26. The storage device of claim 19 wherein obtaining the plurality of locations does not require a transmitter of the client device to be enabled.

27. The storage device of claim 19 wherein sending the saved locations and associated bearings and speeds to the remote storage device comprises sending at times when a transmitter of the client device is enabled.