Patent ID: 8519845

Claim:
A method of tracking people, comprising the steps of: transmitting a polling request to a mobile device associated with a particular person of interest; in response to the polling request, transmitting a location signal including positional data and time data representative of the location of the mobile device at the time of reception of the polling request; determining if the location signal transmitted by the mobile device is being received and if communication is interrupted, then storing the positional data and the time data in on-board memory until communication is re-established and at that time, re-transmitting the location signal and clearing the stored positional data and the time data from the on-board memory, wherein the stored positional data and time data is stored for a pre-set time threshold after which subsequent positional data and time data overwrites the original stored positional data and time data; receiving a supplemental location signal from a fixed sensor, the supplemental signal including supplemental positional data and supplemental time data representative of the location of the mobile device when the mobile device is detected within proximity of a fixed sensor; recording the positional and time data and the supplemental positional and supplemental time data in a database as a set of geographic positions and corresponding times associated with a path of the person of interest; generating a visual display image of the path of the person of interest overlaid on a geographic map; and transmitting the positional and time data and the supplemental positional and supplemental time data to a single guide of a group of people, the group of people including the person of interest.