Emergency signal for M2M devices

• US 10,250,505 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2017
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dahan, Joseph, Wang, Jiansong, Kodaypak, Rajendra Prasad
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Quoc D
• Application Number:
  US15/450,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20170180255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 379 45
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2115 Third party
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/12 Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2433 Allocation of priorities to traffic types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/559 Sorting systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5116 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A method includes receiving, at a server connected to a network, a plurality of emergency alerts from a plurality of devices connected to the network. The method also includes analyzing, by the server, the plurality of emergency alerts to determine an emergency type of each of the plurality of emergency alerts. The method includes categorizing, by the server, the plurality of emergency alerts based on the emergency type of each of the plurality of emergency alerts. The method includes prioritizing a first category of the plurality of emergency alerts and consolidating the plurality of emergency alerts of the first category into a consolidated alert. The method includes causing the consolidated alert to be provided to an emergency responder.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server connected to a network, messages from a plurality of devices connected to the network, wherein the messages comprise a first subset and a second subset;

consolidating the first subset into a consolidated message;

consolidating the second subset into another consolidated message;

prioritizing the second subset lower than the first subset based on a first message type indicated by the first subset being ranked higher than a second message type indicated by the second subset; and

causing the consolidated message to be provided to a recipient at a first transport quality of service (QoS) level before causing an indication of the another consolidated message to be provided to the recipient at a lower QoS level than the first transport QoS level.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second subset comprises at least one message of the messages.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

categorizing at least a portion of the messages into the first subset and the second subset, wherein each of the messages of the first subset share the first message type.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

identifying the recipient based on the first message type or a location of at least one of the plurality of devices from which at least one of messages of the first subset was received.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying the recipient comprises identifying a plurality of recipients within a geographic region including the location.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the first message type indicates an event to which the first subset relates.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the event comprises a weather related event.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of messages are received on a control plane of the network.

9. A method comprising:

receiving messages at a server connected to a network;

analyzing, by the server, the messages to determine a message type of each of the messages;

categorizing a first subset of the messages based on the message type of each of the messages of the first subset having a first message type;

prioritizing the first subset of the messages higher than a second message of the messages based on the first message type and a second message type of the second message;

causing an indication of the first subset to be provided to a recipient at a first transport quality of service (QoS) level; and

causing an indication of the second message to be provided to the recipient at a second transport QoS level that is less than the first transport QoS level.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

consolidating the first subset into a consolidated message, wherein the indication of the first subset comprises the consolidated message.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining that the message type of a third message of the messages is an unapproved message type;

providing a response to the third message indicating that the third message was rejected to a source of the third message.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

identifying the recipient based on the first message type.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

identifying the recipient based on the second message type.

14. A system comprising:

an input/output for connecting the system to a network;

a processor communicatively coupled to the input/output; and

memory storing instructions that cause the processor to effectuate operations, the operations comprising;

receiving, via the network, a first message from a first device and a second message from a second device, the first message indicative of a first condition detected by the first device and the second message indicative of a second condition detected by the second device;

determining, based at least on a relative location of the first device to the second device whether the first condition and the second condition are indicative of a same situation;

based on at least the first condition and the second condition being indicative of the same situation, consolidating the first message and the second message into a consolidated message;

determining a first transport quality of service (QoS) level based at least on a priority of the same situation; and

sending the consolidated message to a recipient at the first transport QoS level.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a third message;

sending an indication of the third message to the recipient at a second transport QoS level that is lower than the first transport QoS level.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein receiving the first message and the second message comprises receiving a transmission on a control plane of the network.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the first condition comprises at least one of exceeding a presence of smoke threshold.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the same situation comprises a crime relate event.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

based at least on a type or a location of the same situation, identifying the recipient.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the recipient comprises a public-safety answering point.