Patent ID: 9165334
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: A61D,G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. An appointment management system for a pet care visit including a walk for a pet care customer's pet, comprising: a pet caregiver portable electronic device including a portable electronic device microprocessor, a portable electronic device memory, and a geographic location sensing mechanism, wherein the pet caregiver portable electronic device is configured to receive data input and to determine its geographic location; and a server including a server processor, a server memory, and wherein the server is configured to receive data input, the server operating a website storing user accounts for the pet care customer and the pet caregiver, permitting the pet caregiver and the pet care customer to schedule the per care visit on the website, and automatically storing appointment information and making the appointment information accessible for viewing on the pet caregiver personal electronic device and an electronic device of the pet care customer, the appointment information indicating at least one of a distance, a duration, and a route of the walk for the scheduled visit; the server memory storing a code identifying the pet care customer and linked to information stored in the server memory identifying the customer's pet and a pet care appointment site at which the pet is located, and providing the caregiver access to the pet identifying information and the location of the pet care appointment site, as the pet caregiver logs into a user account of the pet caregiver on the website, and; an image of the pet care customer code stored at the pet care appointment site on a medium readable by the portable electronic device, to enable the pet caregiver portable electronic device to reed the code at the pet care appointment site when placed in proximity to the customer code medium; and the server programmed with instructions for the server processor to receive a transmission of the code initiated by the pet caregiver at a beginning of the pet care visit from the pet caregiver portable electronic device located at the pet care appointment site, compare the received code to the code identifying the pet care customer in the server, subject to at least one precondition coded into the instructions, said at least one precondition including that the received code equal the stored code, perform a storing and displaying subroutine including instructions to: in response to the end signal from the pet caregiver portable electronic device, transmit data to the electronic device of the pet care customer to permit display on a display of the pet care customer electronic device the pet care visit start time, the pet care visit end time, and a visual map of a walk path constructed from said time-sequenced geographic locations of the pet caregiver portable electronic device at each of said plurality of times, to permit the pet care customer to confirm at a route of the walk, the pet caregiver portable electronic device programmed with instructions for the pet caregiver portable electronic device microprocessor to record the geographic location of the pet caregiver portable electronic device at each of said plurality of times separated by the regular intervals and to transmit data representing said geographic location at each of said plurality of times to the server, and the pet caregiver portable electronic device further comprising a clock and being further programmed with instructions to if the transmission signal is unavailable,