Patent ID: 9686640
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G01S,G06F,G06Q,G08B,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for telemetric tracking of a portable computing device, the method comprising: receiving, from a user computing device associated with an authorized user of the portable computing device, one or more wireless transmissions that indicate that the portable computing device is lost and that request initiation of periodic monitoring of the portable computing device based on a time period interval identified in the one or more wireless transmissions; modifying data stored in memory of the portable computing device in response to receipt of the one or more wireless transmissions, thereby preventing access to the data; periodically determining in accordance with the time period interval a geographic location of the portable computing device in response to receipt of the one or more wireless transmissions and based on communications received from one or more global positioning satellites by the portable computing device; and periodically transmitting in accordance with the time period interval, from the portable computing device to the user computing device, the geographic location of the portable computing device.