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Apparatus and method for finding and reporting lost items

  • US 9,741,008 B2
  • Filed: 05/03/2013
  • Issued: 08/22/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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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,wherein the lost-and-found system is operative to;

    first receive at least one report of a found item or of a lost item from a lost-and-found mobile application, wherein each of the found items or each of the lost items is associated with at least one of the venue records, and wherein each of the venue records includes one or more of a geographic location of one venue, a unique identifier of the one venue, a category of the one venue, a sub-category of the one venue, pointers to user records of users associated with the one venue, pointers to lost item records associated with the one venue, and pointers to found item records associated with the one venue;

    second receive a request to send a lost-item alert or a found-item alert, the request being associated with a venue in the venue records;

    select one or more addresses of mobile devices of agents of the venue based on the venue associated with the received request; and

    send an alert to each of the selected addresses of the mobile devices of the agents.

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