Geo-fencing with diagnostic feature
View Patent ↗A mobile device having location services stores information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building and stores a geo-fence log including one or more mobile device parameters and one or more geo-fence crossing events. The mobile device may determine the location of the mobile device via the location services and may determine when a geo-fence crossing event has occurred. Each of the geo-fence crossing events may be recorded in the geo-fence log, which may be uploaded to a remote server from time to time.
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a mobile device having location services to perform the following:
store information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;
identify when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;
record a log of geo-fence crossings in a geo-fence log;
record one or more mobile device parameters in the geo-fence log;
upload the geo-fence log to a remote server; and
wherein the one or more mobile device parameters comprises one or more of an executable program version, a mobile operating system version, a mobile device carrier, a log of executable program login events, a log of executable program logout events, a log of executable program opening events, a log of executable program closing events, and an indication of whether location services of the mobile device is enabled.
2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the geo-fence log records each of two or more geo-fence crossings before uploading the geo-fence log to the remote server.
3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the geo-fence log records a time stamp for each geo-fence crossing.
4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the geo-fence log records for each geo-fence crossing whether the geo-fence crossing was an inbound geo-fence crossing or an outbound geo-fence crossing.
5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a mobile device having location services to perform the following:
store information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;
identify when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;
record a log of geo-fence crossings in a geo-fence log; and
upload the geo-fence log to a remote server in response to a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises a user logging out of the executable program on the mobile device.
6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a mobile device having location services to perform the following:
store information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;
identify when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;
record a log of geo-fence crossings in a geo-fence log; and
upload the geo-fence log to a remote server in response to a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises a predetermined period of time passing without an upload.
7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the predetermined period of time is a period that is less than 24 hours.
8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a mobile device having location services to perform the following:
store information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;
identify when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;
record a log of geo-fence crossings in a geo-fence log; and
upload the geo-fence log to a remote server in response to a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises a request from the remote server for the mobile device to upload the geo-fence log.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a mobile device having location services to perform the following:
store information pertaining to a geo-fence assigned to a building;
identify when the mobile phone crosses the geo-fence with the aid of the location services of the mobile device;
record a log of geo-fence crossings in a geo-fence log; and
upload the geo-fence log to a remote server in response to a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein the trigger comprises a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device via a physical login.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the trigger comprises a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device via an auto-login.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the trigger comprises a user logging into the executable program on the mobile device after a forced close of the executable program.