Anti-lost notification method and anti-theft device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10026280-B2
Application number	US-201415515065-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2014
Priority date	Sep 29, 2014
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

An anti-lost notification method and an anti-theft device, which can improve accuracy of BLUETOOTH anti-lost notification, and avoid erroneous vibration notification in a non-lost case, where the method includes determining whether a step count value in first preset duration before a connection between an anti-theft device and a peer device is disconnected is greater than a preset value; if the step count value is greater than the preset value, determining whether a signal quality value sequence of a communication signal between the anti-theft device and the peer device shows a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connected is disconnected; and giving an alarm if the signal quality value sequence shows a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connected is disconnected.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An anti-lost notification method, applied to an anti-theft device, wherein the method comprises:
determining whether a step count value in a first preset duration before a connection between the anti-theft device and a peer device is disconnected is greater than a preset value;
determining whether a signal quality value sequence of a communication signal between the anti-theft device and the peer device shows a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected when the step count value is greater than the preset value; and
giving an alarm when the signal quality value sequence shows a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises giving an alarm when the signal quality value sequence does not show a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected, and the connection is not restored after being disconnected for a second preset duration.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises skipping starting an alarm when the signal quality value sequence does not show a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected, and the connection is restored after being disconnected for a second preset duration.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises giving an alarm when the step count value is less than the preset value, and the connection is not restored after being disconnected for a second preset duration.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises skipping starting an alarm when the step count value is less than the preset value, and the connection is restored after being disconnected for a second preset duration.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein before determining whether the step count value in first preset duration before the connection between the anti-theft device and the peer device is disconnected is greater than the preset value, the method further comprises counting, by the anti-theft device in real time, a quantity of steps that is in the first preset duration prior to each moment to obtain the step count value that is in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected.

7. An anti-theft device, comprising:
an alarm; and
a processor coupled to the alarm, wherein the processor is configured to:
determine whether a step count value in a first preset duration before a connection between the anti-theft device and a peer device is disconnected is greater than a preset value;
determine whether a signal quality value sequence of a communication signal between the anti-theft device and the peer device shows a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected when the step count value is greater than the preset value; and
trigger the alarm to give an alarm when the signal quality value sequence shows a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected.

8. The anti-theft device according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to trigger the alarm to give an alarm when the signal quality value sequence does not show a progressively decreasing trend in the first preset duration before the connection is disconnected, and the connection is not restored after being disconnected for a second preset duration.

9. The anti-theft device according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to trigger the alarm to give an alarm when the step count value is less than the preset value, and the connection is not restored after being disconnected for a second preset duration.

10. The anti-theft device according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to skip starting an alarm when the step count value is less than the preset value, and the signal connection is restored after a second preset duration.

11. The anti-theft device according to claim 7 , further comprising an acceleration sensor, wherein the acceleration sensor is configured to:
connect to the processor; and
sense a user motion to report sensed data to the processor,
wherein before determining, according to the data reported by the acceleration sensor, whether the step count value in the first preset duration before the connection between the anti-theft device and the peer device is disconnected is greater than the preset value, the processor counts in real time a quantity of steps that is in the first preset duration prior to each moment.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Qin Muyun
• Wang Ruimin
• Peng Rongan
• Chen Jianhua

Classifications

• G08B13/1436 Primary

  with motion detection · CPC title

• G08B25/10

  using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G08B13/1427

  with transmitter-receiver for distance detection · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• G08B21/182

  Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold · CPC title