Patent ID: 8188869

Claim:
A kit for monitoring and tracking the location of at least one animal, the kit comprising: a GPS implant designed to be transplanted subcutaneously into an animal, the GPS implant capable of communicating spatial information related to the location of the at least one animal; a first receiver for receiving the spatial information communicated from the GPS implant related to the location of the at least one animal, the first receiver adapted to transmit the spatial information communicated from the GPS implant to a smartphone; and a location monitoring program loadable onto the smartphone and including a set of instructions, that when executed by the smartphone, causes the smartphone to (a) compare the spatial information communicated from the GPS implant against data entered into a memory of the smartphone, the entered data defining an allowable zone, (b) determine when the at least one animal is outside the allowable zone, (c) communicate response signals when the at least one animal is outside the allowable zone; and to (d) display the location of the GPS implant; wherein the allowable zone represents selectively either a user-defined perimeter, or a user-defined allowable distance between the smartphone and the GPS implant; and wherein the location monitoring program further comprises instructions, that when executed by a smartphone having a second GPS receiver for receiving spatial information related to the location of the smartphone, (a) cause the smartphone to display the location of the GPS implant and the location of the smartphone in a split screen mode, the mapped location of the GPS implant alongside a second mapped location of the smartphone, and (b) cause the smartphone to receive the smartphone location information while a user transports the smartphone along a perimeter, and to enter the resulting user-defined perimeter data into the memory of the smartphone.