Mobile geo-fence system

• US 9,918,191 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2015
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Baca, Jim S, Stanasolovich, David, Kohlenberg, Tobias
• Primary Examiner(s): AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE
• Application Number:
  US14/922,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20170118590A1
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• 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 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

Various systems and methods for a mobile geo-fence system are described herein. A system for managing mobile geo-fences includes a tracking module to track a mobile geo-fence, the mobile geo-fence corresponding to a mobile device; a detection module to detect an intersection of the mobile geo-fence with a second geo-fence; and a data transmission module to provide data to the mobile device based on a data sharing policy.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a tracker to track a mobile geo-fence, the mobile geo-fence corresponding to a mobile device of a first user;

a detector to detect an intersection of the mobile geo-fence with a second geo-fence associated with a second user; and

a data transmitter, in response to detection of the intersection, to provide data of the second user to the mobile device based on a data sharing policy that links an identity of the first user with an identity associated with the second geo-fence.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile geo-fence is a polygonal shape, a circular shape, or a three-dimensional shape.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a registration module to receive a registration of the mobile geo-fence, the registration including geo-fence parameters.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the geo-fence parameters include a geo-fence shape and size.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the geo-fence parameters include the identity of the first user of the mobile device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the detector is to:

identify a boundary of the mobile geo-fence;

identify a boundary of the second geo-fence; and

determine whether the boundary of the mobile geo-fence overlaps at least a portion of the boundary of the second geo-fence.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the detector is to determine that the boundary of the mobile geo-fence overlaps at least a portion of the boundary of the second geo-fence without the mobile device being in the second geo-fence.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the second geo-fence is that of a patient, and wherein the data transmitter is to:

access an electronic medical records database;

identify patient data of the second user comprising a patient associated with the second geo-fence; and

provide the patient data to the mobile device.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising a data storage module to:

receive second data from the mobile device; and

communicate the second data to the electronic medical records database for storage.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a data deletion module to:

transmit a trigger action that erases the data from the mobile device after a detection that the mobile geo-fence and the second geo-fence no longer intersect.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is to cause an application to be installed in the mobile device in response to detection of the intersection.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the data transmitter is to provide the data of the second user in an encrypted manner.

13. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

track, at a geo-fence server, a mobile geo-fence, the mobile geo-fence corresponding to a mobile device of a first user;

detect an intersection of the mobile geo-fence with a second geo-fence associated with a second user, wherein the geo-fence server tracks the second geo-fence via a wearable device worn by the second user;

interface, between the geo-fence server and an electronic records system to indicate the intersection; and

in response to detection of the intersection, provide data of the second user from the electronic records system to the mobile device based on a data sharing policy that links an identity of the first user with an identity associated with the second geo-fence.

14. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions to:

identify a boundary of the mobile geo-fence;

identify a boundary of the second geo-fence; and

determine whether the boundary of the mobile geo-fence overlaps at least a portion of the boundary of the second geo-fence.

15. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14, further comprising instructions to:

determine that the boundary of the mobile geo-fence overlaps at least a portion of the boundary of the second geo-fence without the mobile device being in the second geo-fence.

16. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions to:

access an electronic medical records database;

identify patient data of the second user comprising a patient associated with the second geo-fence; and

provide the patient data to the mobile device.

17. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16, further comprising instructions to:

receive second data from the mobile device; and

communicate the second data to the electronic medical records database for storage.

18. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions to:

transmit a trigger action that erases the data from the mobile device after detecting that the mobile geo-fence and the second geo-fence no longer intersect.

19. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the second geo-fence is a stationary geo-fence.

20. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to:

determine a state of progress in a process of the first user of the mobile device; and

load the data to the mobile device from the geo-fence server based on the state.

21. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the process is a medical treatment and wherein the state of progress is a stage in the medical treatment.

22. A method comprising:

tracking, at a geo-fence server, a mobile geo-fence, the mobile geo-fence corresponding to a mobile device of a first user;

detecting an intersection of the mobile geo-fence with a second geo-fence associated with a second user; and

in response to detection of the intersection, providing data of the second user to the mobile device based on a data sharing policy that links an identity of the first user with an identity associated with the second geo-fence.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

determining a state of progress in a process of the first user of the mobile device; and

loading the data to the mobile device from the geo-fence server based on the state.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the process is a medical treatment and wherein the state of progress is a stage in the medical treatment.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

providing information to a device corresponding to the second geo-fence, the second geo-fence defined in part by being centered on the device, the information related to the first user of the mobile device.