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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
Exaktime Innovations, Inc., Calabasas, CA (US);
Anthony H. Pappas, Corvallis, OR (US);
John K. O'Hara, Moorpark, CA (US);
Casey P. Powers, Agoura Hills, CA (US);
Eric R. Renken, Niles, MI (US);
Scott K. Prewett, Encino, CA (US);
Myles Christensen, Orem, UT (US);
Matthew K. Dunham, Eagan, MN (US);
Christopher M. Anderson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Dustin L. Morris, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Exaktime Innovations, Inc., Calabasas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for tracking and communicating time and attendance data for workers at a remote worksite is disclosed. A portable time and attendance device is configured to receive and store worker time attendance data and transmit the data to a remote computer via a wireless network, such as a wireless cellular communications network. In order to conserve battery power, a main unit of the device periodically queries an electronic time and attendance clock of the device according to a pre-established schedule to determine if new worker time and attendance data has been received. If so, according to the pre-established schedule, the new worker time and attendance data is transmitted to the remote computer via the wireless network. Otherwise, certain functions and components of the device remain in a low battery usage sleep mode.