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US 8,941,489 B2Granted
Method and/or apparatus for geofence management
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsSuhas H. Sheshadri, Aditya N. Srivastava
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Abstract
Disclosed are a system, method or device for maintaining a geofence to provide alerts in response to an object entering or exiting an area bounded by the geofence. In one example implementation, a geofence may be temporarily altered. In particular examples, such an alteration of a geofence may comprise changing a size or shape of the geofence.
Claims28
A method comprising:
- detecting a breach of a geofence in response to detection that a mobile device has entered or exited a region bounded by the geofence;
- temporarily expanding or contracting said region bounded by said geofence from an initial state in response to said detection of said breach for a set duration starting at said detection;
- and
- returning said geofence to said initial state responsive to expiration of said set duration.
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A mobile device comprising:
- a receiver to acquire wireless signals;
- and a processor to:
- detect a breach of a geofence in response to detection that the mobile device has entered or exited a region bounded by the geofence based, at least in part, on said acquired signals;
- temporarily expand or contract said region bounded by said geofence from an initial state in response to said detection of said breach for a set duration starting at said detection;
- and
- return said geofence to said initial state responsive to expiration of said set duration.
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An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions stored thereon which are executable by a special purpose computing apparatus to:
- detect a breach of a geofence in response to detection that the mobile device has entered or exited a region bounded by the geofence;
- temporarily expand or contract said region bounded by said geofence from an initial state in response to said detection of said breach for a set duration starting at said detection;
- and
- return said geofence to said initial state responsive to expiration of said set duration.
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An apparatus comprising:
- means for detecting a breach of a geofence in response to detection that a mobile device has entered or exited a region bounded by the geofence;
- means for temporarily expanding or contracting a region bounded by said geofence from an initial state in response to said detection of said breach for a set duration starting at said detection;
- and
- means for returning said geofence to said initial state responsive to expiration of said set duration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.