Patent ID: 9715584
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. Recites a tracking method, comprising: determining, by a first electronic device, identification information associated with a first user of the first electronic device, wherein the identification information comprises biometric data associated with the first user; acquiring location information for the first electronic device; transmitting, to a second electronic device, a first tracking report that includes an identity of the first user and the location information of the first electronic device; subsequently determining, by the first electronic device, identification information for a current user of the first electronic device, wherein the operation of determining identification information for the current user comprises: prompting the current user to unlock the first electronic device by presenting a false unlock screen to the current user, wherein the false unlock screen is only presented to obtain a biometric scan from the current user while the current user unlocks the false unlock screen; and receiving biometric data associated with the current user as the current user unlocks the false unlock screen; acquiring location information for the first electronic device; comparing the biometric data associated with the current user with identification information associated with the first user to determine if an identity of the current user matches an identity of the first user; when the biometric data associated with the current user matches the biometric data associated with the first user, transmitting, to the second electronic device, a second tracking report that includes the identity of the first user and the location information for the first electronic device; when the biometric data associated with the current user does not match the biometric data associated with the first user, comparing the biometric data associated with the current user with biometric data associated with one or more known users of the first electronic device to determine the identity of the current user, wherein the biometric data associated with one or more known users is stored in a memory in the first electronic device; when the biometric data associated with the current user matches the biometric data associated with a respective known user, transmitting, to the second electronic device, the second tracking report that includes the identity of the respective known user and the location information for the first electronic device; and when the biometric data associated with the current user does not match the biometric data associated with the one or more known users, transmitting, to the second electronic device, the second tracking report that includes the identification information associated with the current user and the location information for the first electronic device.