AUTO-LEARNING GENERATION AND USE OF OBJECTS CHECKLIST BASED ON PROXIMITY CONTROL

• US 20180233011A1
• Filed: 02/15/2017
• Published: 08/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Conti, Chiara, De Angelis, Emilio, Marinelli, Claudio, Oliverio, Stefania, Pecoraro, Roberto
• Granted Patent: US 10,580,274 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10128 the step consisting of detection of the presence of one or more record carriers in the vicinity of the interrogation device
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2417 having a radio frequency identification chip
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A method for generating an alert on a mobile device in an absence of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag in proximity to the mobile device is provided herein. The method comprises defining an event. A profile list for storing RFID tag identifiers is related to the event. The method also comprises sharing the event data together with the profile list using a social media network, storing all received RFID tag identifiers at a time within the duration of the event after an event start time in the profile list if the profile list was empty before the event start time, and generating the alert under alert conditions. The alert conditions comprise a determination that the profile list was not empty before the event start time, and that one RFID tag identifier stored in the profile list is not among the received RFID tag identifiers during the event duration after the event time.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating an alert on a mobile device in an absence of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag in a proximity to the mobile device, the mobile device comprising a RFID receiver, the method comprising:

defining an event with event data comprising an event identifier, an event time, an event duration, and an event location, wherein a profile list for storing RFID tag identifiers is associated with the event identifier;

sharing the event data and the profile list using a social media network;

storing received RFID tag identifiers in the profile list at a time within the event duration after an event start time in the case that the profile list was empty before the event start time; and

generating the alert in response to alert conditions, wherein the alert conditions comprise a determination that the profile list was not empty before the event start time and that a RFID tag identifier stored in the profile list is not among received RFID tag identifiers during the event duration after the event start time.

2. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising adding an additional RFID tag identifier to the profile list in the case that the additional RFID tag identifier is received within the event duration after the event start time and was not stored in the profile list associated with the event identifier.

3. The method according to claim 2, the method further comprising adding the additional RFID tag identifier to the profile list in response to receiving a confirmation message.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating the alert further comprises deleting from the profile list the RFID tag identifier that is not among the received RFID tag identifiers in response to receiving a confirmation.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the event location is defined by at least one selected from the group consisting of:

a GPS position, a location RFID tag, a WiFi transmitter having a defined location, a Bluetooth transmitter having a defined location, and an optical orientation transmitter having a defined location.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating the alert is in response to at least one selected from the group consisting of:

a determination by the mobile device that a home location has been left, a determination by the mobile device that an event location has been reached, and a determination by the mobile device that an intermediate position has been reached.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating the alert on the mobile device further comprises sending a message to another mobile device.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the alert conditions are suppressed in the case that the RFID tag identifier stored in the profile list that is not among the received RFID tag identifiers is in a proximity to another mobile device.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the event is triggered by a calendar entry.

10. A system for generating an alert on a mobile device in an absence of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag in a proximity to the mobile device, the mobile device comprising a RFID receiver and the system comprising:

a memory medium comprising program instructions;

a bus coupled to the memory medium; and

a processor, for executing the program instructions, that when executing the program instructions causes the system to;

define an event with event data comprising an event identifier, an event time, an event duration, and an event location, wherein a profile list for storing RFID tag identifiers is associated with the event identifier;

share the event data and the profile list using a social media network;

store received RFID tag identifiers in the profile list at a time within the event duration after an event start time in the case that the profile list was empty before the event start time; and

generate the alert in response to alert conditions, wherein the alert conditions comprise a determination that the profile list was not empty before the event start time and that a RFID tag identifier stored in the profile list is not among received RFID tag identifiers during the event duration after the event start time.

11. The system according to claim 10, the instructions further causing the system to add an additional RFID tag identifier to the profile list in the case that the additional RFID tag identifier is received within the event duration after the event start time and was not stored in the profile list associated with the event identifier.

12. The system according to claim 11, the instructions further causing the system to add the additional RFID tag identifier to the profile list in response to receiving a confirmation message.

13. The system according to claim 10, the instructions further causing the system to delete from the profile list the RFID tag identifier that is not among the received RFID tag identifiers in response to receiving a confirmation.

14. The system according to claim 10, wherein the event location is defined by at least one selected from the group consisting of:

a GPS position, a location RFID tag, a WiFi transmitter having a defined location, a Bluetooth transmitter having a defined location, and an optical orientation transmitter having a defined location.

15. The system according to claim 10, wherein the instructions causing the system to generate the alert generate the alert in response to at least one selected from the group consisting of:

a determination that a home location has been left, a determination that an event location has been reached, and a determination that an intermediate position has been reached, by the mobile device.

16. The system according to claim 10, wherein the instructions causing the system to generate the alert on the mobile device further comprise instructions causing the system to send a message to another mobile device.

17. The system according to claim 10, the instructions further causing the system to suppress the alert conditions in the case that the RFID tag identifier stored in the profile list that is not among the received RFID tag identifiers is in a proximity to another mobile device.

18. The system according to claim 10, wherein the event is triggered by a calendar entry.

19. A computer program product for generating an alert on a mobile device in an absence of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag, the computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by one or more computing systems to cause the one or more computing systems to:

define an event with event data comprising an event identifier, an event time, an event duration, and an event location, wherein a profile list for storing RFID tag identifiers is associated with the event identifier;

share the event data and the profile list using a social media network;

store received RFID tag identifiers in the profile list at a time within the event duration after an event start time in the case that the profile list was empty before the event start time; and

generate the alert in response to alert conditions, wherein the alert conditions comprise a determination that the profile list was not empty before the event start time and that a RFID tag identifier stored in the profile list is not among received RFID tag identifiers during the event duration after the event start time.

20. The computer program product according to claim 19, the computer readable hardware storage device further comprising instructions to add an additional RFID tag identifier to the profile list in the case that the additional RFID tag identifier is received within the event duration after the event start time and was not stored in the profile list associated with the event identifier.