Patent ID: 8710980

Claim:
A location tracking system comprising: a server comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including program instructions, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the server to track, in a coverage area of the location tracking system, locations of at least one user tag and at least one asset tag, and to communicate with the at least one user tag and the at least one asset tag; an asset tag associated with an asset and comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including program instructions, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the asset tag to establish a direct device-to-device wireless communication connection with a user tag, wherein the establishment comprises pairing the user tag and the asset tag; and said user tag associated with a person and comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including program instructions, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the user tag to establish the direct device-to-device wireless communication connection with said asset tag, to trigger by the establishment of the wireless communication connection a process to change a usability status of the asset associated with the asset tag, and to use identifiers of the asset tag and the user tag obtained when pairing the asset tag and the user tag to link the user tag with the asset tag when changing the usability status of the asset.