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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Absolute Software Corporation, Vancouver, CA;

Inventors:

William Doyle Gordon, Vancouver, CA;

Arkadi Tchoudnovskii, Richmond, CA;

Assignee:

Absolute Software Corporation, Vancouver, BC, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/88 (2013.01); H04W 12/12 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/88 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/125 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 69/18 (2013.01); H04W 12/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/001 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device monitoring system uses two different types of servers to communicate with electronic devices of users. One type of server, which may be a rapid contact server, is optimized or configured for relatively short and frequent communications with the electronic devices. The other type of server is optimized or configured for less frequent but (typically) longer communications with the electronic devices. In some embodiments, the electronic devices are configured to communicate relatively frequently (e.g., every few minutes) with the rapid contact server. When an electronic device is reported as lost or stolen, the rapid contact server may instruct the electronic device to contact the other type of server to obtain security-related instructions.


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