GEO-FENCING WITH DIAGNOSTIC FEATURE

• US 20170180931A1
• Filed: 03/02/2017
• Published: 06/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Frenz, Jonathan P., Klein, Aaron J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,826,357 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/069 using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A mobile device having location services stores information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building and stores a geo-fence log including one or more mobile device parameters and one or more geo-fence crossing events. The mobile device may determine the location of the mobile device via the location services and may determine when a geo-fence crossing event has occurred. Each of the geo-fence crossing events may be recorded in the geo-fence log, which may be uploaded to a remote server from time to time.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a mobile device having location services to perform the following:

store information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;

identify when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;

record a log of geo-fence crossings; and

upload the log of geo-fence crossings as well as one or more mobile device parameters to a remote server, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters comprises a program version of the executable program.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters further comprises a mobile operating system type.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters further comprises a mobile operating system version.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters further comprises a mobile device carrier.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters further comprises, a log of executable program login events and a log of executable program logout events.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters further comprises a log of executable program opening events and a log of executable program closing events.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters further comprises an indication of when the location services of the mobile device was enabled.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mobile device parameters further comprises an indication of whether background application refreshing is turned on for the executable program.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a geofence crossing type is logged for each geo-fence crossing.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein an event time is logged for each geo-fence crossing.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a location ID is logged for each geo-fence crossing.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a geo-fence trigger type is logged for each geo-fence crossing.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein information pertaining to the geo-fence assigned to a building is logged for each geo-fence crossing.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a mobile device having location services to perform the following:

store information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;

identify when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;

record a log of geo-fence crossings in a geo-fence log; and

upload the geo-fence log to a remote server in response to a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises one or more of;

a user logging out of the executable program;

a passing of a predetermined period of time without an upload; and

a reception of an upload request from the remote server.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the trigger comprises a user logging out of the executable program.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the trigger comprises a passing of a predetermined period of time without an upload.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the trigger comprises reception of an upload request from the remote server.

18. A method for operating a mobile device having location services, comprising:

storing information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;

identifying when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;

recording a log of geo-fence crossings in a geo-fence log; and

uploading the geo-fence log to a remote server in response to a reception of an upload request from the remote server.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

aggregating the geo-fence logs that are uploaded to the remote server by a plurality of mobile devices; and

performing a data analysis on the aggregated geo-fence logs.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the data analysis outputs diagnostic information.