Patent ID: 8334766
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. A tracking system for tracking the location of a plurality of persons, objects and groups of persons or objects or combination of persons and objects comprising: a localizer associated to one person or object or group of persons or objects, or a group of persons and objects; a network wirelessly connected to said localizer to receive localization information from said localizer; a data processor having: a database; a display that displays the localization information; and a network access that accesses said network; the date processor being arranged to: create a worldwide virtual geographical grid including worldwide coordinates; display a selected map overlaying the virtual geographical grid; monitoring the localizer and obtaining localization information from said network; display the localization information of the localizer in the selected map; create associations between the localizer and persons, objects, groups of persons, objects, or groups of objects and persons and monitor the location of said associated persons, objects and groups of persons or objects and groups of persons and objects; create multiple rules involving persons, objects, groups, locating means, times, dates, places, and generating alarms if said rules are violated; download publicly available electronic worldwide maps from the network or local databases, and select a specific map in order to overlay said map over the virtual geographical grid; edit said selected map in order to add custom virtual items including buildings or specific maps from the interior of buildings and any other objects, and save said objects as a part of a group of objects or individually in said computer database, so that the objects can be added or deleted from the map when necessary; register and store in the database the localization history of the monitored localizer associated to a person, object or group and display on the display a path representing said registered localization history in the selected map; display on the display further of the localizer that were near the monitored localizer at a predetermined time or date or between a selected period of time and date; create user virtual accounts that include a list of the monitored and further localizers that a user wants to monitor, rules for sending alarms, preferences regarding the way the account is accessed by the user or by other users, including authorizations to other users to gain access to the account; create distance associations between persons, objects or groups and creating rules based on said distance associations and generate an alarm if there is a violation of rules based on said distance associations including generating an alarm if said persons, objects or groups move closer or away a predetermined distance from each other, immediately or after the violation to the rule has repeated a predetermined number of times; create restriction zones in the map for associating one or more persons, objects or groups to said created restriction zones and creating rules based on said restriction zones; create service associations between entities including persons, objects, groups of persons or objects or groups of persons and objects, indicating which entities may be serviced by any of the available entities, and create service association rules including registering that an entity has received service from one service entity when the distance between both entities is less than a predefined distance; and administer wireless service requests made by users having localizers and search for available service providers and the location of said service providers as well as the requesters for administering the priority of the service according to different options of algorithms including: by distance, by first requestor-first attended, and by zone assigned to servers.