data application_number US 201514704676 A description several embodiments of the invention with reference to the appended drawings are now explained the following description and drawings are illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention numerous specific details are described to provide a thorough understanding of various embodiments of the present invention however in certain instances well known or conventional details are not described in order to provide a concise discussion of embodiments of the present inventions in the following description numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough description of the present invention it will be apparent however to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details in other instances well known features have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the invention due to the growth of the information technology it infrastructure and general decrease in costs and sizes of gps device components there has been a growing demand for gps implementation within portable assets such as portable computing devices as individuals and enterprises expand the use of portable computing devices such as with laptop tablet and handheld computers e g smartphones there has been an increasing recognition of the vulnerability such devices have for theft or loss and the corresponding increase in economic value and corresponding loss when theft or loss occurs for example of the more than 10 000 laptops that go missing every month at chicago o 39 hare airport approximately only 22 are ever recovered a problem in the prior art has been an inability to configure and fabricate gps devices that were compact enough to conveniently install on portable computing devices a further problem is the.