Personal shoe tracking system

A system for locating a person by a system subscriber wherein the person's shoe is provided with a shoe location unit which calculates the current location of the shoe and person at any given time, wherein said location unit includes a processor and transmitter to transmit a low power digital location data packet having location data, said system comprising:

• a web host connected to a wide area web network, said web host having a computer readable medium;
• said web host being accessible by the subscriber from a remote computer terminal;
• a computer program residing on said web host for receiving a tracking request from the subscriber and transmitting a tracking call to the shoe location unit carried by the person's shoe;
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• said computer program including instructions embodied in computer readable code for automatically transmitting said tracking call, receiving the low power digital location data packet having location data from the location unit in response to said tracking call, and transmitting location data regarding the current position of the shoe and person to the subscriber's terminal where the current location of the person's shoe is displayed.

A method for locating and tracking the position of a person's shoe, said method comprising:

• providing a web host connectable to a plurality of subscriber terminals concurrently;
• providing at least one shoe location units for affixation to at least one shoe worn by a person to be tracked;
• receiving a tracking request at said web host initiated at said subscriber's terminal seeking the present location of a person's shoe;
• transmitting a tracking call to the shoe location unit whose location is desired in response to receiving said tracking request;
• receiving a low power digital data packet having location data at said web host from the shoe location unit representing the current location of the person's shoe in response to said tracking call;
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• transmitting said location data to the computer terminal of the subscriber for display of the current location of the person's shoe on the subscriber's terminal display.

A method for tracking persons wherein subscribers have computer terminals with a display comprising:

• providing subscriptions to a web host accessible from a subscriber terminal;
• assigning a shoe location unit to the person to be tracked by integrating the location unit with the person's shoe;
• receiving a tracking request initiated at said subscriber terminal at said web host whereby a tracking call is transmitted from said web host to the shoe location unit assigned to the subscriber and location data representing the location of the person's shoe is transmitted to said web host from the shoe location unit;
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• transmitting said location data to said subscriber terminal so that the current location of the shoe and person can be displayed on the subscriber's terminal display.