US 9,538,725 B2Granted

Mobile telephone dog training tool and method

AssigneeEB Partners

InventorsJames C. Bianchi, Robert W. Holland

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Abstract

A mobile telephone adapts to use as a gundog training tool by interfacing with a dog collar using a wireless communication device, such as a WWAN text or IP interface, a WLAN interface or a radio transceiver that couples to the mobile telephone and is accessible to a training application running on the mobile telephone. The dog collar includes a GPS receiver to provide position information to the mobile telephone and a shock device to provide training stimulus to the dog. A wireless headset interfaces with the mobile telephone to provide audible indications of position to an end user, such as a dog point and tone indicators of directions to the dog. A wireless handset interfaces with the mobile telephone to accept inputs for application to the collar, such as training stimulus.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A dog training tool comprising:

a mobile processing device having a WPAN interface;
an adapter having a WPAN interface operable to communicate with the mobile processing device WPAN interface and a wireless communication module operable to communicate with a wireless radio signal;
a collar adapted to couple to a dog, the collar having a GPS receiver, a WPAN interface and a wireless communication module, the WPAN interface operable to communicate GPS positions of the GPS receiver to the mobile processing WPAN device and the wireless communication module operable to communicate GPS positions of the GPS receiver to the adapter wireless communication module with the wireless radio signal;
and
a training application stored in memory of the mobile processing device and operable to execute on a processor of the mobile processing device, the training application operable to retrieve the collar GPS positions from the collar by the WPAN interface and from the adapter by the WPAN interface, the adapter retrieving the collar GPS positions from the collar by the adapter wireless communication module with the wireless radio signal, the training application further operable to present the GPS positions at a display of the mobile telephone.

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A system for training a dog, the system comprising:

a mobile processing device having a processor, memory, WPAN interface and display, the mobile processing device operable to the mobile telephone having a GPS receiver operable to present the position of the mobile processing device on a map presented at the display;
plural dog collars, each dog collar having a GPS receiver operable to determine the position of the dog collar, a WPAN interface and at least one wireless communication device to communicate the position of the dog collar with a wireless communication signal;
and
an adapter operable to receive the position from the plural dog collars with the wireless communication signals and to communicate the position of the dog collar to the mobile processing device through the WPAN for presentation of the dog collar position at the display;
wherein the mobile processing device is further operable to selectively receive the GPS position from only one of the WPAN interface with a collar or the WPAN interface with the adapter, and to shut off wireless communication signals between the selected one or more of the plural dog collars and the adapter if the mobile processing device obtains the GPS positions of the selected one or more of the plural collars from the WPAN interface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/462,882Filed 19 Aug 2014 · continuation in part
Priority: 8 Mar 2013
Published: US 2015/0053144 A126 Feb 2015
Granted: 10 Jan 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A01K 15/021
Training or exercising equipment, e.g. mazes or labyrinths for animals ; Electric shock devices; Toys specially adapted for animals: electronic…
A01K 11/008
Automatic identification systems for animals, e.g. electronic devices, transponders for animals: incorporating global positioning system [GPS]
A01K 27/001
Leads or collars, e.g. for dogs: collars
A01K 27/009
Leads or collars, e.g. for dogs: with electric-shock, sound, magnetic- or radio-waves emitting devices

Family

Application13/790,548Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 8 Mar 2013
Application13/901,934Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 24 May 2013
US 2015/0053144 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Feb 2015
US 8,839,744 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2014/0251232 A1Published application
US 2014/0251233 A1Published application
US 9,226,479 B2Related patent
US 9,538,725 B2This patent

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