Coalescing geo-fence events

A computing device comprising:

• a data store to store geo-fence data for multiple geo-fences, the geo-fence data for a geo-fence including an indication of a program associated with the geo-fence;
• a geo-fence event detection module to detect when one or more geo-fence events occur for the multiple geo-fences, including when one or more geo-fence events occur during a conservation period of an operating system during which certain programs are not scheduled to run;
• a geo-fence event storage module to maintain a record of the detected one or more geo-fence events;
• and
• a geo-fence event reporting module to provide, to a program subsequently scheduled to run, an indication of one or more geo-fence events included in the record of the detected one or more geo-fence events.

A method comprising:

• detecting when one or more geo-fence events occur for a computing device during a conservation period of an operating system during which certain programs are not scheduled to run;
• maintaining a record of geo-fence events for each of multiple geo-fences, including maintaining a record of multiple geo-fence exit events and multiple geo-fence enter events for each of the multiple geo-fences, the record of geo-fence events including for each geo-fence event an identification of the geo-fence event and a timestamp of when the geo-fence event was detected;
• and
• providing, to a program associated with two or more of the multiple geo-fences when the program is scheduled to run during an execution period of the operating system, an indication of a most recent geo-fence exit event and geo-fence enter event for each of the two or more of the multiple geo-fences from the record of geo-fence events.