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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2016
Skyhook Wireless, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Christopher Steger, Boston, MA (US);
Thomas Jason Dytko, Somerville, MA (US);
Nicolas Brachet, Newton, MA (US);
Russel Kipp Jones, Roswell, GA (US);
Andrei Dancus, Burlington, MA (US);
Andrew Broadstone, Watertown, MA (US);
Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz, Wayland, MA (US);
Skyhook Wireless, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, techniques approximate concurrent monitoring of a large number of geo-fences, potentially beyond a number supported by a mobile device, The mobile device may obtain a set of geo-fences and maintain a first subset of the geo-fences as an active subset of geo-fences and a second subset of the geo-fences as an inactive subset of geo-fences. The mobile device may also establish and monitor an envelope geo-fences that excluded the inactive subset of geo-fence. In response to detecting that the mobile device has moved to a new location proximate to the envelope geo-fence, one or more geo-fences are moved between the active subset of geo-fences and the inactive subset of geo-fences to produce a new active subset of geo-fences and a new inactive subset of geo-fences.