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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Pinger, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph Sipher, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anjini Shukla, Mountain View, CA (US);
Derek Rodrigues, Ojai, CA (US);
Silvia Cret, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
Pinger, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A device's arrival at a destination location is automatically detected, and notification of such arrival is automatically generated, without any need for a user to specify the destination location in advance. A perimeter, or geofence, is continually or periodically defined around the device's current location. A timer is automatically set, with some pre-specified duration. If the device exits the geofence before the timer expires, the new location of the device is determined, a new geofence around that location is defined, and the timer is reset. If the timer expires before the device exits the geofence, the device is considered to have arrived at a destination; an 'arrives' event is generated. Notification of such an event can be output at the device and/or transmitted to one or more subscribers. Various exceptions, conditions, and preferences can be taken into account so as to avoid false positives.