Patent ID: 11882497
Assignee: TILE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a tracking server from a user device, a hash value associated with a tracking device, wherein the hash value is computed based on at least a unique identifying value associated with the tracking device, wherein the hash value is configured to expire after a predetermined period of time;
determining, by the tracking server, that the received hash value is not expired;
identifying, by the tracking server, the tracking device based on a comparison between a stored hash value and the received hash value; and
updating, by the tracking server, one or more records stored in a database accessible to, and maintained by, the tracking server that are associated with the identified tracking device based on the received hash value.