Patents Assigned to Tile, Inc.
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Patent number: 10536802Abstract: Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Arunkumar Puppala, Liuyin Cheng, Wayne Patterson
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Patent number: 10536798Abstract: A last known location of a tracking device can be determined by using location information received at a tracking system. A disconnection event is received at the tracking system indicating that a tracking device has disconnected from a mobile device. In response, the tracking system can generate a last known location for the tracking device. Other relevant location updates, such as recent locations of the mobile device or locations of other mobile devices that connect to the tracking device are collected and associated with the disconnection event. Based on the location updates, a last known location of the tracking device can be computed and stored.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Pierre-Marie Lévêque, Wayne Patterson, Arunkumar Puppala
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Patent number: 10506386Abstract: A tracking device uses user-guided trilateration to determine a current location of the tracking device. The tracking device receives a request to locate the tracking device from a user of a mobile device communicatively connected to the tracking device. The tracking device receives a series of locations of the mobile device and corresponding distances between the mobile device and the tracking device at each of the locations. The tracking device provides instructions to the user of the mobile device to move to each of the series of locations to collect location and distance data. The tracking devices performs a trilateration operation on the series of locations and corresponding distances to determine a location of the tracking device and provides the determined location to the mobile device for display.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Josselin de la Broise, Steven R. Klinkner
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Patent number: 10475328Abstract: A tracking system determines if a tracking device is located within a safe zone based on whether a set of safe conditions are satisfied. The set of safe conditions includes a geographic boundary or a geographic location and corresponding threshold distance. The set of safe conditions can also include a time window during which a safe zone is active. When a tracking device is within a safe zone (e.g., geographically and temporally), the tracking device is determined to be safe, and notifications associated with the tracking device can be minimized. The safe zones may be user-selected, user-defined, or determined based on data analytics. If a set of safe conditions are not satisfied, the tracking system generates and sends a notification to the user of the tracking device indicating that the tracking device may be lost.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Robert Doxey, Arunkumar Puppala, Wayne Patterson
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Patent number: 10469991Abstract: The principles described herein provide methods and systems for locating a tracking device. In particular, one disclosed method includes associating a user with a tracking device, receiving an indication that the tracking device is lost, setting a flag indicating that the tracking device is lost, receiving a location within a proximity of the tracking device from one of a plurality of mobile devices associated with a community of users, and providing the location to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas George Evans, Michael George Farley
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Patent number: 10469989Abstract: A tracking system can provide intervention notifications to a user to notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or is in a predicted state. The tracking system may notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or in a predicted state based on a number of factors, including: a proximity of a tracking device to other tracking devices or a user's mobile device, a movement of a tracking device to more than a threshold distance away from a mobile device or other tracking devices, a location of a tracking device relative to a geographic location or to geographic boundaries, a usage or movement behavior of the tracking device, a usage or movement behavior of a user or owner of a tracking device, information received from an external source, or information received from sensors within the tracking device or a user's mobile.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski, Melody Quintana, Mayank Kumar, Tyler Lettau, Wayne Patterson
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Patent number: 10469990Abstract: A tracking system can provide intervention notifications to a user to notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or is in a predicted state. The tracking system may notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or in a predicted state based on a number of factors, including: a proximity of a tracking device to other tracking devices or a user's mobile device, a movement of a tracking device to more than a threshold distance away from a mobile device or other tracking devices, a location of a tracking device relative to a geographic location or to geographic boundaries, a usage or movement behavior of the tracking device, a usage or movement behavior of a user or owner of a tracking device, information received from an external source, or information received from sensors within the tracking device or a user's mobile.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski, Melody Quintana, Mayank Kumar, Tyler Lettau, Wayne Patterson
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Patent number: 10462606Abstract: A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device. The secondary device can provide locations associated with the tracking device to a tracking system. When the secondary device determines that the tracking device is lost (for instance, in response to no longer receiving communications from the tracking device), the secondary device can provide additional locations associated with the secondary device to the tracking system. The tracking system can store locations received before and after the tracking device was lost, and can provide these locations to the user for display within a map interface, enabling a user to digitally retrace the user's steps in order to aid the user in locating the lost tracking device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Jose Pons Vega, Daniel Tam
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Patent number: 10462600Abstract: A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device by generating a hash value based on the identity of the tracking device. If the secondary device cannot resolve the hash value, the hash value can be provided to a tracking server, such as a cloud server, for resolving the hash value. Upon resolving the hash value, the tracking server can store a location of the tracking device in association with the identity of the tracking device. To preserve power, the secondary device can activate location-detection functionality (such as a GPS receive) only in response to the detection of movement of the tracking device, can obtain location information, and can de-activate the location-detection functionality upon providing the location information to the tracking server. The tracking server can associate one or both of a previous location and the current location information based on movement of the tracking device.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventor: Josselin de la Broise
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Patent number: 10462611Abstract: A tracking system can provide configuration instructions to an electronic device based on user presence. The tracking system can determine a user's location relative to a geographic boundary surrounding a geographic area associated with the user. Depending on the user's location, the tracking system may send instructions to configure an electronic device to send a notification or change the operating mode of the electronic device in response to the user's presence. The electronic device may be a scanning device that is configured to have a higher or lower scanning frequency, depending on the presence or absence of the user relative to the scanning device.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Steven R. Klinkner, Josselin de la Broise
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Patent number: 10412540Abstract: A last known location of a tracking device can be determined by using location information received at a tracking system. A disconnection event is received at the tracking system indicating that a tracking device has disconnected from a mobile device. In response, the tracking system can generate a last known location for the tracking device. Other relevant location updates, such as recent locations of the mobile device or locations of other mobile devices that connect to the tracking device are collected and associated with the disconnection event. Based on the location updates, a last known location of the tracking device can be computed and stored.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Pierre-Marie Lévêque, Wayne Patterson, Arunkumar Puppala
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Patent number: 10412543Abstract: Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Arunkumar Puppala, Liuyin Cheng, Wayne Patterson
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Patent number: 10412548Abstract: A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device. The secondary device can provide locations associated with the tracking device to a tracking system. When the secondary device determines that the tracking device is lost (for instance, in response to no longer receiving communications from the tracking device), the secondary device can provide additional locations associated with the secondary device to the tracking system. The tracking system can store locations received before and after the tracking device was lost, and can provide these locations to the user for display within a map interface, enabling a user to digitally retrace the user's steps in order to aid the user in locating the lost tracking device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Jose Pons Vega, Daniel Tam
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Patent number: 10405135Abstract: Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Arunkumar Puppala, Liuyin Cheng, Wayne Patterson
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Patent number: 10405144Abstract: One or more features of a tracking device can be disabled if the tracking device is lost. A tracking device is associated with a first mobile device, which can remotely control the tracking device via a tracking server. The tracking server receives an instruction from the first mobile device to disable a feature of the tracking device. The tracking server also receives a notification from a second mobile device that the second mobile device is within a communication range of the tracking device. In response to receiving the instruction and the notification, the tracking server transmits the instruction for the tracking device to disable the feature to the second mobile device. The tracking device receives the instruction to disable the feature from the second mobile device. In response to receiving the instruction to disable the feature, the tracking device disables the feature according to the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventor: Dan Danknick
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Patent number: 10405147Abstract: A tracking device has a first transceiver, a second transceiver, and control logic. The first transceiver can transmit a first tracking signal for locating the tracking device to mobile devices via a first network. The mobile devices provide the first tracking signal to a tracking server. The second transceiver can transmit a second tracking signal for locating the tracking device to the tracking server via a second network. The control logic can configure the tracking device in a first state in which the first transceiver transmits the first tracking signal, and the second transceiver is disabled and does not transmit the second tracking signal. In response to determining that the tracking device cannot connect to the tracking server via the first network, the control logic configures the tracking device in a second state in which the second transceiver is enabled and transmits the second tracking signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Sameh Mahmoud, Muhammad Umair, John Mathew Depew, Richard Philip Sillman
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Patent number: D859187Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Yves Behar, John Mathew Depew, Michael George Farley, Vijay Shankar, Richard Philip Sillman, Valentin Jean Charles Marcel Sollier, Christopher Sean Wheaton
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Patent number: D866370Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Sean Wheaton, Cole Justin Derby, Matthew Edward Kramer, Michael George Farley
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Patent number: D866371Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Sean Wheaton, Cole Justin Derby, Matthew Edward Kramer, Michael George Farley
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Patent number: D870322Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ludowici Roof Tile, Inc.Inventors: Bradley J. Smith, Joseph B. Shultheis