Patent ID: 8155871

Claim:
A locating method of a living, moving object being tracked, in which method: the object being tracked carries a locating device comprising a combined GPS locator and terminal of a cellular network; the tracker of the object uses a tracking device provided with a display to which the location data of the GPS locator are communicated; during tracking, one of the following may be selected in the tracking device for the operation mode of the GPS locator of the locating device: tracking at the tracker's command; continuous tracking; periodic tracking; area tracking; and for minimising the power consumption of the locating device of the object being tracked, selecting in the tracking device a data transmission mode from the following alternative transmission modes as the transmission mode of location data: packet-switched data transmission in a cellular network wherein one of the following is selected as the packet-switched data transmission mode: a UMTS/GPRS, an EDGE/GPRS, or a GSM/GPRS connection; circuit-switched data transmission in a cellular network; a direct radio connection between the terminal and the tracker's device; or using the terminal as a radio bearing transmitter.