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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2013
Telecommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis, MD (US);
Paul C. Thompson, Bothell, WA (US);
Telecommunication Systems, Inc., Annapolis, MD (US);
Abstract
A network tracking server-based service that implements an efficient network management of location requests associated with tracking a prisoner's wireless tracking device. The tracking server initiates location requests associated with a given prisoner (or the like) tracking device in a trustworthy, but much more efficient and manageable technique, from the perspective of the network. Network management of prisoner device tracking is made efficient when inside a given geofence, but once outside the prescribed geofence a more detailed inquisition is immediately launched—even before the top of the hour (or whenever the typical periodic location request occur). From a management perspective, once detected to no longer be inside (and thus is outside) an expected or assigned geofence, the prisoner tracking device is presumed less trustworthy, and thus then periodic location requests to the tracking device are initiated.