Patents by Inventor Robert K. Sharp

Robert K. Sharp 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).

  • Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining a location of a tracked device after a device or network failure
    Patent number: 8700052
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are for receiving a tracking failure notification including a device identifier of a tracked device that is unavailable because of a failure condition, determining the failure condition as being one of a network failure and a tracked device failure, retrieving known location data of the tracked device including a last known location of the tracked device, determining a potential location of the tracked device, and notifying an entity of the failure condition, the device identifier, and the potential location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Modi, James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Stephen J. Griesmer, Robert K. Sharp, Harold Stewart
  • Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Determining a Location of a Tracked Device After a Device or Network Failure
    Publication number: 20120009904
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are for receiving a tracking failure notification including a device identifier of a tracked device that is unavailable because of a failure condition, determining the failure condition as being one of a network failure and a tracked device failure, retrieving known location data of the tracked device including a last known location of the tracked device, determining a potential location of the tracked device, and notifying an entity of the failure condition, the device identifier, and the potential location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Milap Modi, James Gordon Beattie, JR., Stephen J. Griesmer, Robert K. Sharp, Harold Stewart