Power preservation in GPS-equipped tracking devices
AssigneeTile, Inc.
InventorGuilherme de Barros Chapiewski
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Abstract
Power can be preserved in a tracking device equipped with a GPS receiver and a transceiver by evaluating the proximity of the tracking device to a mobile device and enabling the GPS receiver and transceiver only in the event that the tracking device is out of the range of the mobile device. Once enabled, the location of the tracking device can be determined based on location information received from the GPS receiver. The determined location can be provided to a tracking system associated with the tracking device. The tracking system can then inform an owner of the tracking device of the determined location. Once the tracking device has been found, the GPS receiver and the transceiver can be disabled to save additional power.
Claims20
A method for preserving battery power comprising:
- when a first device is configured to operate in a normal operation mode:
- providing, by a first transceiver of the first device, a location of a second device to a central tracking system;
- and
- in response to receiving a confirmation that the location of the second device was received by the central tracking system, configuring the first device to operate in a power preservation mode by disabling the first transceiver such that the first device is configured to receive beacon signals from the second device while the second device is within a communicative range of the first device via a second transceiver of the first device, the first device to configured to operate in the normal operation mode in response to receiving a beacon signal from the second device.
A system for preserving battery power, comprising:
- a hardware processor of a first device;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by the hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to perform steps comprising:
- when the first device is configured to operate in a normal operation mode:
- providing, by a first transceiver of the first device, a location of a second device to a central tracking system;
- and
- in response to receiving a confirmation that the location of the second device was received by the central tracking system, configuring the first device to operate in a power preservation mode by disabling the first transceiver such that the first device is configured to receive beacon signals from the second device while the second device is within a communicative range of the first device via a second transceiver of the first device, the first device to configured to operate in the normal operation mode in response to receiving a beacon signal from the second device.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions for preserving battery power that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform steps comprising:
- when a first device is configured to operate in a normal operation mode:
- providing, by a first transceiver of the first device, a location of a second device to a central tracking system;
- and
- in response to receiving a confirmation that the location of the second device was received by the central tracking system, configuring the first device to operate in a power preservation mode by disabling the first transceiver such that the first device is configured to receive beacon signals from the second device while the second device is within a communicative range of the first device via a second transceiver of the first device, the first device to configured to operate in the normal operation mode in response to receiving a beacon signal from the second device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.