Location tracking system

• US 9,959,730 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2016
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Caline Spikes
• Original Assignee: Caline Spikes
• Inventors: Spikes, Caline
• Primary Examiner(s): ODOM, CURTIS B
• Application Number:
  US15/133,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20170084149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/005 by electric shock
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0261 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect trespassing over a fixed physical boundary, e.g. the end of a garden
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0288 Attachment of child unit to child/article
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/22 responsive to presence or absence of persons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A location tracking system for allowing a user to monitor the location of an abuser who has been issued a restraining order. The tracking system includes a monitoring unit to be carried by the user that is in wireless communication with a monitored unit to be worn by the abuser. The monitoring unit includes a housing having a display screen thereon, wherein the display screen shows the location of the monitoring unit and the location of the monitored unit. The monitoring unit is configured to determine the distance of separation between the monitoring unit and monitored unit. The monitoring unit includes an alarm unit that will produce an audible alert if the distance of separation drops below a predetermined minimum distance.

Claims

1. A location tracking system, comprising:

a monitoring unit adapted to be carried by a user, wherein the monitoring unit is in wireless communication with a monitored unit adapted to be worn by an abuser;

wherein the monitoring unit comprises a housing having a display adapted to display a user interface thereon, wherein said user interface comprises a map on which a location of the monitoring unit is displayed and on which a location of the monitored unit is displayed;

the housing further including a key ring thereon;

wherein the monitoring unit determines a distance of separation between the monitored unit and the monitoring unit;

wherein the monitoring unit further comprises an alarm unit adapted to produce an audible alert when the distance of separation has dropped below a predetermined minimum distance;

the monitored unit further comprising an alarm unit that emits an audible alert when the distance of separation has dropped below the predetermined minimum distance;

the monitored unit further comprising an electroshock mechanism, the electroshock mechanism including two activation conditions, wherein the first activation condition is met when the distance of separation has dropped below a predetermined safety distance, wherein the predetermined safety distance is less than the predetermined minimum distance, and wherein the second activation condition is met when a wireless transceiver of the monitored unit receives an activation command from a police department via a remote control.

2. The location tracking system of claim 1, wherein the monitored unit comprises a GPS chip adapted to determine the location of the monitored unit.

3. The location tracking system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring unit comprises a microprocessor adapted to determine the distance of separation between the monitored unit and the monitoring unit.

4. The location tracking system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring unit further comprises one or more controls on the housing adapted to allow a user to manipulate the user interface.

5. The location tracking system of claim 1, wherein the monitored unit comprises an ankle bracelet.

6. The location tracking system of claim 2, wherein the distance of separation is defined as the straight-line distance between the location of the monitoring unit and the location of the monitored unit as determined by the GPS chip of the monitored unit.

7. The location tracking system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring unit comprises a wireless transceiver adapted to wirelessly communicate with a wireless transceiver of the monitored unit.