Patent ID: 9699634
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a selection of one or more people to notify that a person intends to travel a route; where the selection is based on the person's personal preference; receiving via user input contact information for an electronic device for the one or more selected people into a portable device to be carried by the person when travelling the route; sending a start message to the electronic device of the selected one or more people that the person is beginning to travel the route; detecting via the portable device carried by the person that the person has not moved at least a predetermined distance along the route for a predetermined time interval; initiating a countdown timer on the portable device when the portable device detects that the person has not moved the distance along the route for the predetermined time interval; providing the person an option to disable the countdown timer from the portable device; sending a non-movement message to the selected one or more people that the person has not moved the predetermined distance in the predetermined time interval when the person fails to disable the countdown timer, wherein the non-movement message includes a marker on a map associated with the location of the portable device so as to be viewable on the electronic device for the one or more selected people, and wherein the route is traced on the map to identify the route the person actually traveled and not a predicted route and sending the actual route to the one or more selected people.