US 12,137,144 B2
System and method for server based control
Yehuda Binder, Ramat Gan (IL); and Benjamin Maytal, Mevasseret Zion (IL)
Assigned to May Patents Ltd., Hod-Hasharon (IL)
Filed by May Patents Ltd., Hod Hasharon (IL)
Filed on Jan. 21, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/418,283.
Application 18/418,283 is a continuation of application No. 17/408,549, filed on Aug. 23, 2021, granted, now 12,010,174.
Application 17/408,549 is a continuation of application No. 15/657,163, filed on Jul. 23, 2017, granted, now 11,128,710, issued on Sep. 21, 2021.
Application 15/657,163 is a continuation of application No. 13/733,634, filed on Jan. 3, 2013, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/647,034, filed on May 15, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/637,030, filed on Apr. 23, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/620,129, filed on Apr. 4, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/584,500, filed on Jan. 9, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2024/0163338 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G07C 3/02 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); B60K 31/00 (2006.01); B60K 31/18 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 67/12 (2013.01) [G07C 3/02 (2013.01); B60K 31/00 (2013.01); B60K 31/18 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/11 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/12 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/126 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/13 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/30 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/40 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/50 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/90 (2013.01); G06Q 2240/00 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G08G 1/00 (2013.01); Y04S 40/18 (2018.05)] 44 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for use with a first portable device that is battery-powered and that is identified by a first identifier and with a second portable device that is identified by a second identifier, comprising:
receiving, by the second device over a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) from the first device, the first identifier;
sending, by the second device over the Internet via a first Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to a first server, a first message that comprises the first and second identifiers, in response to the receiving of the first identifier;
receiving, by the first server from the second device over the Internet, the first message;
receiving, by the first server from a third portable device over the Internet, a first request that comprises the first identifier;
sending, by the first server to the third device over the Internet, a first notification, in response to the receiving of the first request and of the first message;
receiving, by the third device from the first server over the Internet, the first notification; and
displaying, by the third device, information that is based on, comprises, or uses, a location of the second device, in response to the receiving of the first notification.