Patent ID: 11887456
Assignee: HERRON HOLDINGS GROUP LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A method for determining the location of child when the child fails to respond to a parent's communication request, said method comprising:
a parent sending a communication to a child and requesting a response from the child, the communication sent from a network accessible device of the parent to a global positioning system (GPS) enabled, network accessible mobile device of the child;
executing a subject application upon the parent sending the communication to the child;
the subject application initiating a countdown timer at a remote server to monitor a time interval in which the child may respond to the parent's request in order to defer the child's geo location being released to the parent's device;
the subject application determining whether the child has responded to the parent's request within the time interval;
wherein if the child responds to the parent's request within the time interval, the subject application cancelling the countdown timer; and
wherein if the child has not responded to the parent's request and the time interval has expired, the subject application attempting to determine a geo location of the child's GPS enabled device, and if a geo location is determined, the subject application forwarding the child's device's geo location to the parent's device over the network.