CPC Class H04W

A method and system for geofencing of vehicle impound yards. One or more geofences around impound yards are selected. The one or more geofences are associated with one or more vehicles. When a vehicle enters the geofenced area, a user (e.g., an individual, car dealer, finance company, etc.) is immediately notified to prevent excessive impound financial charges. If a vehicle is left in a geofence area, a cumulative time duration and a cumulative finance charge are accurately recorded to reduce or prevent financial fraud.

Devices, systems, and method are provided for identifying actions in a retail store. One method includes sampling a shopping environment using one or more sensors. The method includes receiving output of the sampling as feature inputs to a machine learning classifier model to derive one or more labels characterizing a state of an item. At least one processing entity associated with the retail store detects the state of the item to change from one as item taken to one as item returned, and sensor data from said one or more sensors characterizing the item as having been returned to a wrong location in the retail store. In further embodiments, items taken are added to a user's electronic shopping cart to enable processing of a cashier-less transaction.

A system and method are provided for transmitting messages related to operations of electronic devices. A management apparatus is notified of an event that occurred in a specific one of a plurality of electronic devices. The management apparatus determines one or more target devices in response to notification of the event that occurred in the specific electronic device. An event message corresponding to the event that occurred in the specific electronic device is created. The management apparatus transmits the event message to the one or more target devices. The one or more target devices output the received event message.