Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for tracking a mobile user
- Patent Title (中): 跟踪移动用户的方法和系统
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Application No.: US14051089Application Date: 2013-10-10
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Publication No.: US09338759B2Publication Date: 2016-05-10
- Inventor: Abdur Chowdhury , Chris Carella , Ben Cherry , Ophir Frieder , Eric Jensen , Tyler Howarth , Matt Sanford
- Applicant: Abdur Chowdhury , Chris Carella , Ben Cherry , Ophir Frieder , Eric Jensen , Tyler Howarth , Matt Sanford
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: PUSHD INC.
- Current Assignee: PUSHD INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Pauley Erickson & Kottis
- Main IPC: H04W4/02
- IPC: H04W4/02 ; H04W64/00

Abstract:
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user's mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method provides a tracking functionality that uses less battery power than a GPS system. The method includes a location module configured to receive location transmissions, places the location module into a sleep mode when possible, awakens the location module upon receipt of a location transmission, and determines a location with the location module and the location transmission. These steps are desirably repeated to continually and automatically track the mobile user. The location transmission can be provided by WiFi triangulation and/or a cellular phone system upon crossing a boundary between antennae cells and/or a boundary between a plurality of established and contiguous geofences.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150105096A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING A MOBILE USER Public/Granted day:2015-04-16
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