Preventing the loss of wireless accessories for mobile devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10373476-B2
Application number	US-201715800117-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2017
Priority date	Sep 25, 2017
Publication date	Aug 6, 2019
Grant date	Aug 6, 2019

Abstract

Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for preventing the loss of wireless accessories for mobile devices. Aspects include calculating, by a processor, a distance between a mobile device and at least one of two or more wireless accessories in communication with the mobile device an determining whether the distance between the mobile device and the at least one of two or more wireless accessories is greater than a first threshold distance. Aspects also include generating an alert by the mobile device that indicates that the at least one of two or more wireless accessories is greater than the threshold distance away from the mobile device based on a determination that the distance between the mobile device and the at least one of two or more wireless accessories is greater than the first threshold distance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method for preventing a loss of wireless accessories for a mobile device, the computer implemented method comprises:
calculating, by a processor, a distance between a mobile device and at least one of two or more wireless accessories in communication with the mobile device;
determining whether the distance between the mobile device and the at least one of two or more wireless accessories is greater than a first threshold distance;
determining a distance between each of the two or more wireless accessories;
determining whether the distance between the two or more wireless accessories is greater than a second threshold distance;
based on a determination that the distance between the mobile device and the at least one of two or more wireless accessories is greater than the first threshold distance, generating an alert by the mobile device that indicates that the at least one of two or more wireless accessories is greater than the threshold distance away from the mobile device; and
based on a determination that the distance between the two or more wireless accessories is greater than the second threshold distance, generating an alert by the mobile device that the distance between the two or more wireless accessories is greater than the second threshold distance.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first threshold distances and the second threshold distance are determined based on a location of the mobile device.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein cognitive analytics are used to monitor locations visited by a user of the mobile device and at least one of the first threshold distance and the second threshold distance varies based on a current location of the mobile device.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a location of the at least one of the two or more wireless accessories is greater than the first threshold distance; and
including an indication of the location in the alert.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the alert is transmitted to one of the two or more wireless accessories within the threshold distance of the mobile device.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the distance between the mobile device and the at least one of two or more wireless accessories in communication with the mobile device is calculated based on a Friis transmission equation.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining a distance between each of the two or more wireless accessories comprises determining a location of each of the two or more wireless accessories and calculating the distance between each of the two or more wireless accessories.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Buschmann Luke N
• Hoover Brad
• Werner John

Classifications

• G08B21/22

  responsive to presence or absence of persons · CPC title

• G08B21/24 Primary

  Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms · CPC title

• H04M1/7253

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• H04M1/72412

  using two-way short-range wireless interfaces · CPC title