Mobile transceiver having selectable travel modes and a method of operation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10671965-B2
Application number	US-201916575789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2019
Priority date	Jan 4, 2016
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

A mobile transceiver having selectable travel modes, a method of operation, and a non-transitory machine readable medium embodying the method are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of operating a mobile transceiver comprising: setting a travel mode defining one or more alarms, each of the alarms being defined by one or more condition parameters which, in response to being satisfied, trigger the respective alarm and one or more actions which are performed in response to the respective alarm being triggered; waking up the mobile transceiver in response to a triggered alarm in the one or more alarms defined by the travel mode; and performing one or more actions associated with the alarm.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium having tangibly stored thereon executable instructions for execution by a processor of a mobile transceiver, wherein the executable instructions, in response to execution by the processor of the mobile transceiver, cause the mobile transceiver to:
set a travel mode defining one or more alarms, each of the alarms being defined by one or more condition parameters which, in response to being satisfied, trigger the respective alarm and one or more actions which are performed in response to the respective alarm being triggered;
wake the mobile transceiver in response to a triggered alarm in the one or more alarms defined by the travel mode; and
perform one or more actions associated with the alarm.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the travel mode is selected based on operations information associated with the mobile transducer or an asset being tracked.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the operations information comprises contextual and/or environmental information that includes one or more of location, location history, sensor data, time, mode of transportation, triggered alarms, asset type, asset contents, asset value, driver profile, or custom requirements.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions to perform the one or more actions cause the mobile transceiver to:
change the current travel mode to a new travel mode.

5. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 4 , wherein the new travel mode is specified by the alarm.

6. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions, in response to execution by the processor of the mobile transceiver, further cause the mobile transceiver to:
send a message to an asset tracking service, the message being from a mobile transceiver requesting updates to at least one stored travel mode.

7. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions to perform the one or more actions cause the mobile transceiver to:
measure location and/or environmental conditions using one or more sensors; and
send a message to the asset tracking service reporting the measured location and/or environmental conditions.

8. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the alarm is time-based or sensor-based.

9. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein, in response to the alarm being sensor-based, periodically measuring environmental conditions using one or more sensors associated with the sensor-based alarm, wherein the frequency of measuring and the one or more sensors to be used in the measuring are defined by the alarm.

10. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions, in response to execution by the processor of the mobile transceiver, further cause the mobile transceiver to:
before setting a travel mode as a current travel mode, download a user-specified device configuration from the asset tracking service in response to determining that the device configuration of the mobile transceiver is a default device configuration.

11. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions, in response to execution by the processor of the mobile transceiver, further cause the mobile transceiver to:
send a message to an asset tracking service, the message from a mobile transceiver including a device identifier (ID) associated with the mobile transceiver; and
receive a message from the asset tracking service, the message including an instruction for the mobile transceiver to apply a selected travel mode;
wherein the message from the mobile transceiver includes location information and/or sensor data measured by the mobile transceiver, and wherein the travel mode is selected in accordance with the device ID, the user-specified device configuration, and the location information and/or the sensor data.

12. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the travel modes comprise at least one of “Rail”, “Ship”, “Street”, “Dock” and “Home”.

13. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein each travel mode defines one or more alarms to be used in the travel mode.

14. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 13 , wherein each of the alarms are defined by an alarm ID, an alarm type that identifies a type of the alarm, one or more condition parameters to be satisfied for the alarm to be triggered, and one or more actions to take in response to the alarm being triggered.

15. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the travel mode is determined based on operations information associated with the mobile transducer or an asset being tracked, wherein the contextual and/or environmental information includes one or more of location, location history, sensor data, time, mode of transportation, triggered alarms, asset type, asset contents, asset value, driver profile, or custom requirements.

16. A non-transitory machine readable medium having tangibly stored thereon executable instructions for execution by a processor of a mobile transceiver, wherein the executable instructions, in response to execution by the processor of the mobile transceiver, cause the mobile transceiver to:
send a message to an asset tracking service, the message from a mobile including a device identifier (ID) associated with the mobile transceiver; and
download the user-specified device configuration from the asset tracking service, wherein the user-specified device configuration is downloaded in response a determination by the asset tracking service based on the device ID that the device configuration of the mobile transceiver is a default device configuration, wherein the user-specified device configuration defines one or more travel modes which each define one or more alarms; and
store the user-specified device configuration in a memory of the mobile transceiver.

17. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the executable instructions, in response to execution by the processor of the mobile transceiver, further cause the mobile transceiver to:
select a travel mode; and
apply the selected travel mode as a current travel mode.

18. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the executable instructions to apply the selected travel mode as a current travel mode cause the mobile transceiver to:
wake up the mobile transceiver in response to an alarm defined for the current travel mode; and
perform an action associated with the alarm.

19. A non-transitory machine readable medium having tangibly stored thereon executable instructions for execution by a processor of a server, wherein the executable instructions, in response to execution by the processor of the server, cause the server to:
receive a message from a mobile transceiver, the message including a device identifier (ID);
determine a device configuration of the mobile transceiver in accordance with the device ID; and
send a user-specified device configuration to the mobile transceiver in response to a determination that the device configuration is a default device configuration, wherein the user-specified device configuration defines one or more travel modes which each define one or more alarms.

20. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the executa

Assignees

• Blackberry Ltd

Inventors

• Barcala Sergio
• Dupuis Michelle Marie

Classifications

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• G06Q10/0833 Primary

  Tracking · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title