Patent ID: 11882499
Assignee: TILE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A system comprising: one or more processors of a tracking server; and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to one or more of the processors and comprising instructions operable when executed by one or more of the processors to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by the tracking server from a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices, a request to locate a tracking device associated with the tracking server;
establishing, by the tracking server, a subset of the plurality of computing devices as a search party for locating the tracking device;
adding, by the tracking server, one or more second computing devices of the plurality of computing devices to the search party, each second computing device satisfying criteria for inclusion in the search party;
in response to determining, by the tracking server, that the search party satisfies a criterion for establishing the search party, providing a last known location of the tracking device to the second computing devices of the search party; and
upon determining that one or more criteria for canceling the search party have been satisfied:
canceling, by the tracking server, the search party; and
notifying, by the tracking server, the second computing devices of the search party that the search party has been canceling.