Patent ID: 8694019
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G01S,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: transmission connection circuitry configured to be able to establish transmission connection between a user-portable electronic device and one or more mobile electronic devices; geographic-location determining circuitry configured to determine a last-known geographic location of each of the one or more mobile electronic devices based on where the transmission connection between the user-portable electronic device and each of the one or more mobile electronic devices, as provided by the transmission connection circuitry, was disconnected or lost; and log circuitry configured to allow storage of at least the last-known geographic location of each of the one or more mobile electronic devices in a user-searchable geographic-location-log to facilitate subsequent location of any of the one or more mobile electronic devices by a user without connection to the one or more mobile electronic devices, the geographic-location-log comprising the name or other identifier of the one or more mobile electronic devices, an indication of the last-known geographic location of the one or more mobile electronic devices as determined by the geographic-location determining circuitry, the time and date of the last-known geographic location of the one or more mobile electronic devices, and the transmission connection media used at the time of the last-known geographic location of the one or more mobile electronic devices, the geographic-location-log configured to allow for display of a user-searched last-known geographic location of the one or more mobile electronic devices, wherein the geographic-location determining circuitry is configured to determine a geographic location of the user-portable electronic device and to determine a geographic location of each of the one or more mobile electronic devices based on the determined geographic location of the user-portable electronic device and a range of the transmission connection between the user-portable electronic device and each of the one or more mobile electronic devices.