Geo-fencing with diagnostic feature

• US 9,609,478 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2015
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• 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.
• Primary Examiner(s): Siddiqui, Kashif
• Application Number:
  US14/696,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20160316329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 in a geo-fence log;

record one or more mobile device parameters in the geo-fence log;

upload the geo-fence log to a remote server; and

wherein the one or more mobile device parameters comprises one or more of an executable program version, a mobile operating system version, a mobile device carrier, a log of executable program login events, a log of executable program logout events, a log of executable program opening events, a log of executable program closing events, and an indication of whether location services of the mobile device is enabled.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the geo-fence log records each of two or more geo-fence crossings before uploading the geo-fence log to the remote server.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the geo-fence log records a time stamp for each geo-fence crossing.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the geo-fence log records for each geo-fence crossing whether the geo-fence crossing was an inbound geo-fence crossing or an outbound geo-fence crossing.

5. 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 a user logging out of the executable program on the mobile device.

6. 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 a predetermined period of time passing without an upload.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the predetermined period of time is a period that is less than 24 hours.

8. 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 a request from the remote server for the mobile device to upload the geo-fence log.

9. 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 a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein the trigger comprises a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device via a physical login.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the trigger comprises a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device via an auto-login.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the trigger comprises a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device after a forced close of the executable program.