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Patent No.:

US 12127074 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2022

Generating unexpected location notifications

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andreas E. Schobel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Swaminathan Jayaraman, Cupertino, CA (US);

Paul W. Salzman, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kevin M. Lynch, Woodside, CA (US);

Tommy Rochette, San Jose, CA (US);

Albert R. Howard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Siva Ganesh Movva, Cupertino, CA (US);

Thomas Chathoth Abraham, San Francisco, CA (US);

Frank De Jong, San Francisco, CA (US);

Rachel F. Needle, Oakland, CA (US);

David John Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);

Raghunandan K. Pai, Saratoga, CA (US);

Swadesh Bhattacharya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Invoke

Primary Examiner:

Frantz Bataille

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.01); G08B 21/02 (2006.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01); H04W 12/03 (2021.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.02); G08B 21/0255 (2013.01); G08B 21/028 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G08B 21/0294 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2013.01); H04W 12/03 (2021.01);
Abstract

In some implementations, a first computing device can send notifications at times that the first computing device is not in an expected location. A user of a second computing device can remotely configure an expected location for the first computing device, which may be a particular location for a certain period of time. During that time, the first computing device can monitor its own location and check whether it is within the expected location. If the first computing device unexpectedly leaves or fails to enter the expected location, the first computing device may transmit a notification to the second computing device. Similarly, if the first computing device loses connectivity with other devices, a server device may notify the second computing device that the location of the first computing device cannot be determined.

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