Patent ID: 8868103

Claim:
A location monitoring system for managing access to location information of a plurality of mobile electronic devices supported by at least one wireless network, each of the mobile electronic devices being associated with and proximate to a corresponding object, said location monitoring system comprising: a computing device operatively connectable to the wireless network, said computing device storing locations of said mobile electronic devices, and said computing device managing authorization for access to the locations of said mobile electronic devices via one or more networks, wherein in managing authorization for access to the locations of said mobile electronic devices, said computing device (i) receives, from a requestor, a request to view the location pertaining to a particular one of the objects; (ii) determines whether the requestor is authorized to receive the location of the particular one of the objects; and (iii) permits access or delivery of the location pertaining to the particular one of the objects to the requestor provided that it is determined that the requestor is authorized to receive the location, and wherein in determining (ii) whether the requesting user is authorized to receive the location of the particular one of the objects, said computing device (a) determines whether viewing of the location of the particular one of the objects is pre-authorized, and (b) sends, when the viewing is determined not to be pre-authorized, a location access request notification to a mobile electronic device corresponding to the particular one of the objects for approval or disapproval of the request to view the location pertaining to the particular one of the objects.