Patent ID: 8145424

Claim:
A method for establishing a geographic boundary for monitoring an object within the geographic boundary, comprising: in response to a request to form a geographic boundary for monitoring a presence of an object within the geographic boundary, determining via a central processing unit whether the request includes parameters associated with the geographic boundary to be formed including a first set of geographic location coordinates and: a radius; or a second set of geographic location coordinates and a third set of geographic location coordinates; if determined that the request includes the radius and does not include the second and the third set of coordinates, forming a circular geographic boundary on the radius from the first set of geographic location coordinates as a center; if determined that the request includes the second set of coordinates and the third set of coordinates, determining via the central processing unit if the first, the second and the third sets of coordinates form an isosceles triangle; if determined that the first, the second and the third sets of coordinates form an isosceles triangle, determining via the central processing unit fourth and fifth sets of coordinates from the formed isosceles triangle and forming a rectangular geographic boundary from the second, the third, the fourth and the fifth sets of coordinates, wherein the second and the third sets of coordinates form a hypotenuse of the formed isosceles triangle; and if determined that the first, the second and the third set of coordinates do not form an isosceles triangle, determining a rectangular exception and forming a rectangular exception circular geographic boundary on the radius from the first set of geographic location coordinates as the center; and wherein the formed one of the circular geographic boundary, the rectangular geographic boundary and the rectangular exception circular geographic boundary is configured to be monitored to determine whether the presence of the object is inside or outside of the formed one geographic boundary.