What to do if something is lost? Apple came up with a way to find it

Tencent Digital (Compiled: Bear) The USPTO of the United States Patent and Trademark Office has just passed an Apple patent numbered No. 9499920, entitled "Power Management in Lost and Found Services," and can be used more quickly through digital positioning technology. The person who lost the item helped find the lost property.

The patent is actually Apple's adding a hardware/software tracking tag to the user's personal items, and sending devices to nearby towers on a regular basis via Bluetooth low energy technology. The ideal distance is within a few meters. At the same time, this signal can also be customized labels, such as "my backpack", and then be able to filter in many lost items.

Apple introduced that users can achieve power requirements from terrestrial signals in places as dense as lost and found. Including persistent labels and location information can ease the dependence on power.

Users can fill in the tag information of the missing items after registering, and then screen the lost items through the database. For example, after the “Knapsack” tag is entered, information can be distributed to the nearest wireless signal point through the mobile device, and then the specific location of the lost item can be uploaded.

At the same time, data collected by the device can be read by GPS, barometer, and green disk. When a user submits a request for finding an item, the service automatically identifies the missing item. If the user wants to claim the item, it needs to provide information including time, latitude, accuracy, and altitude. In addition, lost items can also be used as active search functions such as "Find My iPhone."

The patent was filed in September 2015 by the patent inventor Robert Mayor.

Source: appleinsider