Patent ID: 11880227
Assignee: SNOUTSCAN LLC
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 21:
22. A method, comprising:
providing, by at least one processor configured by instructions stored on non-transitory processor readable media, membership services associated with locating and retrieving lost subjects including animals;
receiving, by the at least one processor from a first computing device, electronic enrollment information representing at least a person, a subject, and a first location;
enrolling, by the at least one processor as a function of the electronic enrollment information, the person in the membership services;
configuring, by the at least one processor, a first plurality of user computing devices with software having instructions that, when respectively executed by at least one of the first plurality of user computing devices, respectively cause the at least one of the first plurality of computing devices to operate in a first mode (“passive mode configured devices”), in which notifications associated with signals received from transmitter devices associated with respective subjects are not displayed by the passive mode configured devices;
configuring, by the at least one processor, a second plurality of user computing devices with software having instructions that, when respectively executed by at least one of the second plurality of user computing devices, cause the at least one of the second plurality of user computing devices to operate in a second mode (“active mode configured devices”), in which notifications associated with signals received from the respective transmitter devices are displayed by the active mode configured devices;
receiving, by the at least one processor from one of the passive mode configured devices in relation to a signal from a respective transmitter received by the one of the passive mode configured devices, reference information representing at least a second location at a time when the signal was received;
processing, by the at least one processor, the reference information to determine at least one of the active mode configured devices; and
providing an alert associated with the reference information to the at least one of the active mode configured devices.