Mobile tracking

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising code which, when loaded into memory and executed on a processor of a second wireless communications device, is adapted to perform tracking of a first wireless communications device by:

• using a proximity detection subsystem to detect when the first wireless communications device has strayed away from the second wireless communications device;
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• upon detecting that the first wireless communications device has strayed away from the second wireless communications device, automatically triggering tracking of the first wireless communications device by the second wireless communications device by:
• obtaining current position data for the first wireless communications device;
• obtaining one or more of speed data, time data, and path data for the first wireless communications device;
• transmitting the current position data and at least one of the speed data, time and path data from the first wireless communications device to the second wireless communications device to enable tracking of the first wireless communications device using the second wireless communications device;
• providing navigation instructions to the current location of the second wireless communications device;
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• storing waypoints to define a breadcrumb path for retracing a route taken by the second wireless communications device when following the first wireless communication device.

A first wireless communications device for generating and transmitting data to enable tracking of the first wireless communications device by a second wireless communications device, the first wireless communications device comprising:

• a proximity detection subsystem for detecting when the first wireless communications device has strayed away from the second wireless communications device and for automatically triggering tracking of the first wireless communications by the second wireless communications device ;
• a GPS chipset for receiving GPS signals and for generating current position data representing a current position of the first wireless communications device;
• a memory operatively connected to a processor for storing and executing an application configured to obtain one or more of speed data, time data and path data for the first wireless communications device, and storing waypoints to define a breadcrumb path for retracing a route taken by the second wireless communications device when following the first wireless communications device;
• and a radiofrequency transmitter for transmitting the current position data of the first wireless communications device in addition to at least one of the speed data, the time data and the path data and for providing navigation instructions to the current location of the second wireless communications device.