Patent ID: 8285300

Claim:
A method, for monitoring a user of a wireless device using a monitoring service having a computer processor and a memory, the method including the processor performing acts comprising: receiving location information identifying a first geographic location of the wireless device; receiving information identifying a time of departure from the first geographic location by the wireless device; determining an exception in response to determining that the wireless device did not arrive at a second, expected, geographic location within a predetermined amount of time after the time of departure from the first geographic location, including the processor obtaining the predetermined amount of time from the memory of the monitoring service, wherein the second, expected location includes multiple expected locations so that the exception is determined if the wireless device does not arrive at one of the multiple expected locations within the predetermined amount of time; and responsive to determining the exception, sending an instruction to take supervisory action, wherein the supervisory action includes disabling a function of the wireless device so that the wireless device is not able to perform the function.