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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Robert B. Nicholson, Hampshire, GB;
Mudhakar Srivatsa, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Kiran Raghu Ganti, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Dinesh Verma, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Managing a geofence of a mobile device in a network is provided, which includes: identifying, by a first application operable with the mobile device, the geofence associated with the mobile device or a user of the mobile device; based on identifying the geofence, registering the identified geofence with a network component; identifying, to a first granularity, a first location for the identified geofence; monitoring, to a second granularity, a location of the mobile device, where the first granularity is more coarse-grained than the second granularity; and based on the mobile device triggering the geofence, pushing a notification to the application; and based on receiving the notification, performing an operation associated with the geofence.