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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2023
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Jason Wayne Jantzi, St. Clements, CA;
Mark Edward Reaume, Waterloo, CA;
Yu Gao, Waterloo, CA;
Scott Leonard Dill, Paris, CA;
Ryan Michael Parker, Ottawa, CA;
Steven Joseph Macdonald, Waterloo, CA;
Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad, Waterloo, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
Methods and systems for controlling an asset tracking device and, in particular, determining when an asset tracking device is aboard a ship. The device may have a ship mode in which the device determines it has been loaded onto a ship and in which geolocation is not determined. The device may further have an ocean mode to which it transitions from the ship mode in which it ceases to look for a cellular connection in order to send location reports. The device may detect a beacon signal from a ship-mounted base-station to trigger the ship mode and may detect, or fail to detect, one or more wireless signals or identifiers as the trigger to transition to ocean mode.