Patents by Inventor Kurt Alfred DOBBINS

Kurt Alfred DOBBINS has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Battery efficient hybrid mobile device location monitoring
    Patent number: 10009726
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing hybrid location monitoring of a mobile device. While performing region monitoring for a set of regions, a mobile device enters a first region. Upon entering a region, the mobile device requests region information for the region from a web server. Using the region information, the mobile device determines whether to enable location updates while within the region. Upon exiting the region, the mobile device determines whether to disable location updates. While performing location updates, the location of the mobile device can be tracked and be determined to be within other contained or partially contained irregularly shaped geofences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: PING4 INC.
    Inventors: Sean Nathan Roy, Kurt Alfred Dobbins, Mark Thomas Sexton, Sett Paing Oo, Rindress Andrew MacDonald, Tatsuki Nakano, Daniel Willis Post, Mohamed Jamal Fadlalla
  • BATTERY EFFICIENT HYBRID MOBILE DEVICE LOCATION MONITORING
    Publication number: 20170034660
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing hybrid location monitoring of a mobile device. While performing region monitoring for a set of regions, a mobile device enters a first region. Upon entering a region, the mobile device requests region information for the region from a web server. Using the region information, the mobile device determines whether to enable location updates while within the region. Upon exiting the region, the mobile device determines whether to disable location updates. While performing location updates, the location of the mobile device can be tracked and be determined to be within other contained or partially contained irregularly shaped geofences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Sean Nathan ROY, Kurt Alfred DOBBINS, Mark Thomas SEXTON, Sett PAING OO, Rindress Andrew MACDONALD, Tatsuki NAKANO, Daniel Willis POST, Mohamed Jamal FADLALLA