Patent ID: 11943680
Assignee: TILE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for locating a tracking device, comprising:
determining, by a mobile device, that the mobile device crossed from inside a geographic boundary associated with a location to outside the geographic boundary;
in response to 1) crossing the geographic boundary and to 2) determining that the mobile device is not communicatively coupled to the tracking device, querying, by the mobile device, a tracking server configured to identify one or more devices currently located within the geographic boundary and query the identified one or more devices to determine if any of the one or more devices are currently communicatively coupled with the tracking device; and
in response to receiving an indication from the tracking server that one of the queried devices is currently communicatively coupled to the tracking device, displaying, by the mobile device, a notification 1) indicating that the tracking device was left at the location, 2) indicating a location within the geographic boundary that the at least one queried device to which the tracking device is communicatively coupled is located, and 3) including text indicating a reason why the tracking device is thought to be left behind.