Patent ID: 8977748
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for reporting a device location, the method comprising: determining, using a processor, a confidence value for a predicted location or destination predicted by a comparison with a schedule, the schedule comprising one or more times and one or more geographic locations, where each of the one or more times is associated with at least one of the one or more geographic locations; comparing the confidence value with a threshold value; determining, using a processor, a predicted location or a predicted destination is a likely location or a likely destination in response to the confidence value being equal to or exceeding the threshold value; identifying, using a processor, one or more a geographic locations indicating at least one of the likely location or the likely destination of a user device; determining whether the user device is within a predetermined area proximate to the one or more geographic locations; and reporting a current location of the user device to a remote server in response to the user device traveling a distance away from the predetermined area.