Patent ID: 8942727
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: configuring a client device to monitor the geographic location of the client device over time; configuring the monitoring so that the monitoring cannot be terminated by a user of the client device and that disabling of the monitoring by the user will cause the client device to be locked; receiving, by the client device, information from a remote system comprising one or more time periods during which a location of the client device can be tracked; monitoring, by the client device, the location of the client device by obtaining a plurality of location coordinates during each of the time periods and persistently storing the location coordinates on the client device; determining that a first transmitter of the client device is unacceptable; and based on the determination, sending different ones of the stored location coordinates to the remote system using a second transmitter of the client device.