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and further is a continuation-in-part of US Non-Provisional Patent Application Serial No.: 13/546,946, filed July 11, 2012, which claims priority to United States provisional patent application Ser. No. 61/506,505, filed July 11, 2011, and United States provisional patent application Ser. No. 61/509,911, filed on July 20, 2011, the entire contents of all of which are incorporated by reference as if set forth herein in their respective entireties.

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Further, solar collectability of light to convert to a small store of energy, usable by the tag to manage the low level data store and transmit operability needed for those within (at least) visual range, for example, to receive data related to lost animals in their vicinity… provides that dogs lost over an extended period of time are likely to have operationally transmitting tags…

Here, in one or more embodiments, an altruistic permission to gain access to the network may be “allowed” even in password protected networks, and/or a REWARD may be provided to allow for the permission, allowing the notice recipient to enter or otherwise permit access to his, and or his network information to consummate a system managed transmission involving all or some of his hardware, near the lost animal.

In this way, BLUETOOTH, Wi-Fi and the like may enable people in the proximity of an animal to be alerted (as to a reward that is offered) and/or to the status of the animal, including media that the animal tag may itself transmit (including data involving descriptive information about the animal, images, video and or access to same,) to help a local alert recipient to not only contact (or allow contact) of an owner, but to identify and animal himself. Geographic information may be further transmitted, allowing the recipient to aid in the locating and retrieval of a lost animal.

Indeed, the present application provides management by a special purpose computer of the network designed to identify, weigh and alert the most useful people and related device(s) with the most useful information, to increase the likelihood of a faster and more successful pet retrieval.

Thus, in at least one implementation, the pet’s collar and/or pet itself may be equipped with hardware that at least transmits a low energy signal locally, that may …by special permission, rewarded of not, convey information to at least a local person(s) and/or an owner, who may gain additional information about his animal’s location by virtue of the location of the network that detected/received his pet’s transmission(s). Further, a plurality of such local detections can enable the system to not only map a single location…

In one or more implementations, short term and specific REWARDS may be issued to users… allowing for appropriation of their hardware for relaying information useful to the retrieval network, when an animal is within a detectable distance from them. Thus, for example, a blue tooth equipped cell phone carrier, may receive a notification on his device, via blue tooth visually or audibly, indicating that an animal is within 150 feet of him (for example) and there is $100 reward for safe retrieval and notification of the owner via the network, and or a $50 reward (for example) for simply allowing his cell phone to convey the tag information and his own phone location and related data to the network, to aid in the animal recovery effort, including in the proper alert of potentially more able, willing and situated animal lovers (and or network members) in the vicinity or otherwise distinguished by their traits, preferences or current status, location or other distinguishing factors manageable by system computing…

Further, in one or more embodiments, a plurality of phones (and or PDA devices) that receive the signal(s) from an animal equipped with a transmitter, may contribute information that provides tandem correlation data for triangulating the current, updated and even the anticipated location of an animal based on the present invention. Thus, members or potential others may receive alerts of an animal that appears to be moving in their direction, and especially network members who are agreeable “dog finders” may receive early alerts, even based on their location and capacity (and or indicated willingness to help) as to an animal’s location, progress, images taken (and or video sequences) and the like. In this way, a community member may retrieve an animal safely on behalf of an owner earlier than an owner just retrieving a pet that continues to travel. Time indeed is of the essence, especially with traffic and other dangers that kill many lost pets.

Technology surrounding the challenges of animal/pet/dog recovery is limited. Known are systems for correlating attributes of animals in a database for matching with other relevant database information. One or more embodiments of the present application, in relation to such databases and in relation to interactive networks such as those linking cellular and/or PDA devices, provides an improvement that represents a computer(s) managed system for enhancing pet recovery options. In relation to a pet-centric interactive network, including a social network of users in one configuration, one or more implementations include a system and/or method for documenting and confirming attributes of a lost pet’s location(s). In one or more embodiments, the system can also enable the projection/anticipation of a pet’s future location(s) and further enable enhanced notification options for mobile device and/or other system linked users for participating in a focused recovery effort in relation to a lost pet.

For example, a system in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present application can included linked components, such as

• At least one cellular or otherwise wireless network connectable PDA device(s), preferably a PDA device with at least image/video capture capability
• A GPS assembly, operable to interface with the PDA device(s) to determine a reference location(s) of the PDA device(s)
• Software to enable information capture for compatible conveyance as notification information and/or media

Through a fast access control, the software can enable the PDA (wireless) device to at least access GPS and/or time information. Through manual and/or automatic information gleaning, the PDA can be provided with system relevant information that can be provided as data to linked communication networking operability. Computing associated with the communication networking operability, or the “network,” can correlate this data for selective conveyance to at least one other user(s) of the network operability associated with SNOUTSCAN.