Tile, Inc.

Mayank Kumar

Guilherme De Barros Chapiewski

Melody Quintana

Wayne Patterson

Tyler James Lettau

Michael George Farley

Guilherme Chapiewski

Patrick Donnelly

Yves Behar

Josselin De La Broise

John Mathew Depew

Valentin Jean Charles Marcel Sollier

David Robert Dykes

Abhishek Gupta

Yaneeka Huq

Arunkumar Puppala

Guiherme De Barros Chapiewski

A method includes receiving, by a tracking system server, and from a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices, a request to locate a tracking device associated with the tracking system server. The request includes reward information for locating the tracking device. The method includes establishing, by the tracking system server, a search party for locating the tracking device in response to the request. The established search party includes one or more second computing devices of the plurality of computing devices. The method includes receiving, by the tracking system server, and from at least one of the one or more second computing devices, location information associated with the tracking device, and in response to receiving the location information associated with the tracking device, transmitting, by the tracking system server, the reward information to the at least one of the one or more second computing devices.

Tracking device search party management

A lost tracking device associated with a tracking system can be located by leveraging one or more community members by inviting these members to join a search party. Search party criteria can be identified and candidate search party members can be selected and invited based on the search party criteria. When invited candidate search party members accept the invitations, they are added to the search party. A last known location of the tracking device can be provided to the search party members, and the search party can remain in effect until the lost tracking device is located. The location of the lost tracking device is provided to the tracking system, which forwards it to the owner of the lost tracking device. A reward can be provided by the owner of the lost tracking device to the tracking system, which releases the reward to the search party member that located the lost tracking device.

A tracking system can provide intervention notifications to a user to notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or is in a predicted state. The tracking system may notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or in a predicted state based on a number of factors, including: a proximity of a tracking device to other tracking devices or a user's mobile device, a movement of a tracking device to more than a threshold distance away from a mobile device or other tracking devices, a location of a tracking device relative to a geographic location or to geographic boundaries, a usage or movement behavior of the tracking device, a usage or movement behavior of a user or owner of a tracking device, information received from an external source, or information received from sensors within the tracking device or a user's mobile.

User intervention based on proximity between tracking devices

In one embodiment, techniques include a method that includes determining, based at least on historical usage information of a tracking device and tracking device diagnostic information, a length of time the tracking device can continue to operate. The method includes determining that the length of time does not satisfy a first power condition out of one or more power conditions. The method includes determining reconfiguration instructions for the tracking device based at least on the historical usage information, tracking device diagnostic information, and projected usage information of the tracking device. The reconfiguration instructions are selected to cause the tracking device to satisfy the one or more power conditions. The method includes storing the reconfiguration instructions for the tracking device in a database in association with a flag indicating that pending reconfiguration instructions are available for the tracking device.

Dynamic tracking device reconfiguration

Embodiments include systems and techniques include a method including receiving, by a tracking server from a first computing device, a request to locate a tracking device associated with the tracking server. The method includes establishing a subset of computing devices as a search party for locating the tracing device. The method includes adding one or more second computing devices to the search party, each second computing device satisfying criteria for inclusion in the search party. The method includes, in response to determining that the search party satisfies a criterion for establishing the search party, providing the last known location of the tracking device to the second computing devices of the search party. The method includes, upon determining that one or more criteria for canceling the search party have been satisfied, terminating the search party and notifying the second computing devices of the search party.

A tracking device can be reconfigured after an amount of operation to preserve the battery capacity of the tracking device and to ensure that the tracking device can be operated for a pre-determined threshold period of time. The tracking device can provide diagnostic information representative of a state of the tracking device, such as a current power capacity of the tracking device's battery, to a mobile device within a threshold proximity of the tracking device. The mobile device can then provide the diagnostic information to a tracking server, which in turn can provide reconfiguration instructions to the mobile device. The mobile device can then pass on the reconfiguration instructions to the tracking device, in response to which the tracking device can reconfigure itself.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a tracking server from a first computing device, a request to establish a search party to locate a tracking device associated with the tracking server. The method includes, until a threshold number of computing devices have been added to the search party: identifying one or more candidate second computing devices for addition to the search party, each candidate second computing device satisfying criteria for inclusion in the search party; adding one or more of the candidate second computing devices to the search party in response to receiving an acceptance of a request sent to the candidate second computing devices to join the search party; determining that a number of second computing devices added to the search party fails to satisfy the threshold number of computing devices; and modifying the criteria for inclusion in the search party.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a tracking server, tracking device diagnostic information and user device diagnostic information. The method includes retrieving, by the tracking server, a power consumption model for a tracking device based on the tracking device diagnostic information. The method includes revising, by the tracking server, the power consumption model for the tracking device based on the tracking device diagnostic information and the user device diagnostic information. The method includes determining, by the tracking server, reconfiguration instructions for the tracking device based on the revised power consumption model. The reconfiguration instructions are selected to cause the tracking device to satisfy one or more power conditions. The method includes providing, by the tracking server, the reconfiguration instructions to the tracking device.

Smart alerts in a tracking device environment

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a tracking server from a first computing device of multiple computing devices, a request to establish a search party to locate a tracking device associated with the tracking server. The search party includes a subset of the computing devices. The method includes selecting, by the tracking server based on the request, one or more criteria for selecting one or more second computing devices for inclusion in the search party. Each criteria defines a requirement for a candidate second computing device. The method includes identifying, by the tracking server, one or more candidate second computing devices, each candidate second computing device satisfying the requirement of each of the selected criteria. The method includes requesting, by the tracking server, the one or more candidate second computing devices to join the search party.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Mayank Kumar