APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FINDING AND REPORTING LOST ITEMS
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1. A system, comprising:
- a lost-and-found system, implemented with one or more processors, the lost-and-found system having a server and a data repository, the data repository storing venue records; and
a plurality of mobile devices each having a lost-and-found mobile application, the lost-and-found mobile application being operative to report a found or a lost item and associate the found item or the lost item with one of the venue records.
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Abstract
Provided is a system, having: a lost-and-found system, implemented with one or more processors, the lost-and-found system having a server and a data repository, the data repository storing venue records; and a plurality of mobile devices each having a lost-and-found mobile application, the lost-and-found mobile application being operative to report a found or a lost item and associate the found item or the lost item with one of the venue records.
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1. A system, comprising:
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a lost-and-found system, implemented with one or more processors, the lost-and-found system having a server and a data repository, the data repository storing venue records; and a plurality of mobile devices each having a lost-and-found mobile application, the lost-and-found mobile application being operative to report a found or a lost item and associate the found item or the lost item with one of the venue records. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-implemented method of documenting lost and found items, the method comprising:
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finding a found item or losing a lost item; launching a lost-and-found application on a mobile device, the lost-and-found application being operative to associate a venue at which the found item was found with the found item or associate a venue at which the item was lost with the lost item; creating a found-item record or a lost-item record with the lost-and-found application on the mobile device to document the found item or lost item by performing steps comprising; recording a location of the mobile device with a location sensor of the mobile device to identify the location where the found item was found or the lost item was lost; capturing an image of the found item with a camera of the mobile device or retrieving an image of the lost item from a file in memory; and receiving a prose description of the lost or found item entered by a user of the mobile device; sending the found-item record or the lost-item record to a lost-and-found server system over a network, the found-item record or the lost-item record having the location, the image, the prose description, and an identifier of the venue; receiving the found-item record or the lost-item record at the lost-and-found server system and storing in a database of the lost-and-found server system the found-item record or the lost-item record; receiving, from another user device, a request at the lost-and-found server system for found items associated with the venue or for lost items associated with the venue; and sending to the other user device, the found item record or the lost-item record and other found item records or lost-item records responsive to the request. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A tangible, machine-readable, non-transitory medium storing instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
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receiving, at a mobile computing device having a processor and memory, instructions to report a found item; presenting an interface by which the user enters a found-item record; and sending the found-item record to a lost-and-found server system along with data by which the found-item record is associated with a venue at which the item was found. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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