US 11,778,414 B2Granted

Tool tracking system

AssigneeMilwaukee Electric Tool Corporation

InventorsBurtrom L. Stampfl, Kevin W. Stueber, Tauhira Hoossainy, Steven Cunningham

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Abstract

A wireless transmission system logs and communicates a location of an object. The wireless transmission system includes a wireless antenna configured to transmit a first beacon signal and a second advertising beacon signal. The system also includes a processor and a memory that stores instructions executable by the processor. The instructions cause the wireless antenna to repeatedly transmit the first beacon signal through a first number of transmission repetitions spaced at a first repeat interval. After completing the first number of transmission repetitions, the wireless antenna withholds transmission during a transition interval. After the transition interval, the wireless antenna repeatedly transmits the second advertising beacon signal through a second number of transmission repetitions at a second repeat interval. The wireless antenna, memory, and processor may be integrated in to a mountable housing and attached to an object or integrated with the tool.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A server system comprising:

a network interface configured to receive information from and transmit information to one or more personal wireless devices;
and
an electronic processor coupled to the network interface and configured to:
receive lost device information from a first personal wireless device, wherein the lost device information indicates (i) an identity of a first beacon transmitter configured to be secured to an object and (ii) that the first beacon transmitter is lost,
update, in response to receiving the lost device information, a tracking database to designate the first beacon transmitter as lost,
receive logged data associated with the first beacon transmitter from a second personal wireless device, wherein the logged data includes the identity of the first beacon transmitter,
determine, in response to receiving the logged data, whether the first beacon transmitter is currently designated as lost in the tracking database, and
transmit, via the network interface, in response to determining that the first beacon transmitter is currently designated as lost in the tracking database, a notification to a first user associated with the first beacon transmitter, wherein the notification is transmitted in accordance with first contact information that is associated with the first beacon transmitter and that is stored in the tracking database.

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Facts

Application: 17/565,086Filed 29 Dec 2021 · continuation
Priority: 31 Oct 2016
Published: US 2022/0124449 A121 Apr 2022
Granted: 3 Oct 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04W 4/02
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services making use of location information
H04W 4/029
Services making use of location information: location-based management or tracking services
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04W 8/14
Mobility data transfer: between corresponding nodes

Family

Application62/415,290Us provisional application · filed 31 Oct 2016
Application15/798,627Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Oct 2017
Application16/439,477Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Jun 2019
US 10,368,186 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Jul 2019
Application16/863,521Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Apr 2020
US 10,694,316 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jun 2020
US 2022/0124449 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Apr 2022
US 11,218,833 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0124558 A1Published application
US 2019/0297464 A1Published application
US 2020/0260215 A1Published application
US 11,778,414 B2This patent

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