Patent ID: 9681402
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for conserving power for a tracking device, the method comprising: establishing, by the tracking device, a communicative connection with a mobile device, the tracking device having a first transmission range; receiving, by the tracking device from the mobile device, an instruction to reduce the transmission range of the tracking device to a second transmission range smaller than the first transmission range, the instruction sent in response to a detection of a threshold number of disconnections between the tracking device and the mobile device; reducing, by the tracking device, the transmission range of the tracking device to the second transmission range such that the communication connection between the tracking device and the mobile device is severed; and in response to re-establishing a connection with the mobile device while the transmission range of the tracking device is the second transmission range, increasing, by the tracking device, the transmission range of the tracking device to the first transmission range.