US 12,772,021 B2Granted

Retroactive geofence events

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsSwagata Prateek, Olivier Joseph Serge Durand de Gevigney, Cory Eden

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Abstract

A plurality of location indications may be received that indicate locations of an object at a plurality of times. A plurality of geofence indications that indicate that the object is within a geofence may be generated based on the plurality of location indications. A plurality of notifications of a plurality of geofence events corresponding to the object may be provided, to an account, based on the plurality of geofence indications. The plurality of geofence events may include a geofence entering event and a geofence exiting event. An out-of-order location indication may be detected within the plurality of location indications. A retroactive geofence event regarding which the account has not yet been notified may be determined based on the out-of-order location indication. An additional notification of the retroactive geofence event may be provided to the account.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computing system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more memories having stored therein instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform computing operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of location indications that indicate locations of an object at a plurality of times;
generating, based on the plurality of location indications, a plurality of geofence indications that indicate that the object is within a geofence;
providing, to an account, based on the plurality of the plurality of geofence indications, a plurality of notifications of a plurality of geofence events corresponding to the object, wherein the plurality of geofence events comprise a geofence entering event corresponding to the object making a geofence entrance and a geofence exiting event corresponding to the object making a geofence exit;
detecting that there is an out-of-order location indication within the plurality of location indications, wherein the out-of-order location indication is sampled prior to one or more other location indications that are received prior to the out-of-order location indication;
determining, based on the out-of-order location indication, a retroactive geofence event regarding which the account has not yet been notified;
and
providing, to the account, an additional notification of the retroactive geofence event.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computing instructions that, upon execution by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform computing operations comprising:

receiving a plurality of location indications that indicate locations of an object at a plurality of times;
generating, based on the plurality of location indications, a plurality of geofence indications that indicate that the object is within a geofence;
providing, to an account, based on the plurality of the plurality of geofence indications, a plurality of notifications of a plurality of geofence events corresponding to the object;
detecting that there is an out-of-order location indication within the plurality of location indications;
determining, based on the out-of-order location indication, a retroactive geofence event regarding which the account has not yet been notified;
and
providing, to the account, an additional notification of the retroactive geofence event.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.