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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Ping4 Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Inventors:
Rindress MacDonald, Hollis, NH (US);
Tatsuki Nakano, Nashua, NH (US);
Sett Paing Oo, Nashua, NH (US);
Dan Post, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Sean Roy, Stratham, NH (US);
Mohamed Fadlalla, Manchester, NH (US);
Mark Sexton, Merrimack, NH (US);
Assignee:
Ping4, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/027 (2013.01); H04W 52/0251 (2013.01); H04W 72/048 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for reducing battery consumption while tracking a location of a mobile device. A location tracking application at the mobile device registers to receive location updates from the mobile device. The application receives a location update from the mobile device and determines whether to transmit location information from the received location update to a remote web server.