Emergency services delivery

• US 10,313,864 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2018
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2017
• 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: Kodaypak, Rajendra Prasad, Hussaini, Reza
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, David Q
• Application Number:
  US16/059,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20180352410A1
• Time in Patent Office: 299 Days
• Field of Search: 3404255, 34042616, 4554041, 45540421
• 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: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A cell broadcast emergency services delivery mechanism for vehicular Internet of Things (IoT) communication is provided. A method can comprise receiving, from a federal emergency management agency device, first data representing federal management emergency event data, aggregating second data representing an emergency event associated with a vehicle with the first data to form third data, based on the emergency event data and the third data, determining a commonality between the first data and the second data, in response to determining the commonality between the first data and the second data, generating metadata, and broadcasting the metadata to the vehicle.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

determining, as function of first data representing an emergency event associated with a first vehicle and an aggregation of data, a commonality between the emergency event and second data received from an emergency management device;

as a function of a longitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle, a latitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle and a defined peripheral boundary, determining a contiguous area that abuts the defined peripheral boundary;

identifying a radio access network device of a group of radio access network devices located within the contiguous area;

based on the commonality identified between the first data and the second data, generating metadata; and

transmitting the metadata to the first vehicle and transmitting the metadata to the radio access network device for rebroadcast, in collaboration with the group of radio access devices, to a second vehicle in the contiguous area.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data comprises weather data associated with the first vehicle and the emergency event.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data comprises the longitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle and the latitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise identifying a network device situated in a defined geographical area represented by the longitude coordinate and the latitude coordinate.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise determining the defined peripheral boundary that circumscribes the longitude coordinate and the latitude coordinate.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise identifying a network device within the defined peripheral boundary.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data is received in response to an engine control unit associated with the first vehicle detecting a deceleration of the first vehicle.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first data is received in response to an engine control unit associated with first the vehicle detecting a deployment of a bag safety device of the first vehicle.

9. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system comprising a processor, an existence of a commonality between first data representing an emergency event associated with a vehicle and second data received from an emergency management device;

generating, by the system, metadata as a function of the existence of the commonality;

based on a longitude coordinate associated with the vehicle, a latitude coordinate associated with the vehicle, and a defined peripheral boundary, determining, by the system, an adjacent area that is contiguous with the defined peripheral boundary;

identifying a grouping of radio access network devices situated in the adjacent area; and

based on the weather data, facilitating transmissions of the metadata to the vehicle and to the grouping of radio access network devices, wherein the vehicle is a first vehicle, and wherein the grouping of radio access network devices collaborates to transmit the metadata to a second vehicle situated in the adjacent area.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first data comprises weather data associated with the emergency event and the first vehicle.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the first data comprises the longitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle and the latitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the longitude coordinate and the latitude coordinate are obtained from a global positioning satellite system device.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising identifying, by the system, a network device located in a defined geographical area as a function of the longitude coordinate and the latitude coordinate.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining, by the system, the defined peripheral boundary that polygonally surrounds the longitude coordinate and the latitude coordinate.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising identifying, by the system, a network device within the defined peripheral boundary.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the first data is received in response to an engine control unit associated with the first vehicle detecting a change in velocity of the first vehicle.

17. The method of claim 9, wherein the first data is received in response to an engine control unit associated with the first vehicle detecting a deployment of a safety device associated with a seat belt of the first vehicle.

18. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

based on emergency event data received from a governmental emergency event server device and vehicle data representing an emergency event associated with a first vehicle, determining a common cross-section between the emergency event data and the vehicle data;

in response to the determining the common cross-section, generating metadata comprising at least one of a geographical location, a time, a type of incident that has occurred, or a weather condition currently being encountered by the first vehicle;

in response to determining a defined peripheral boundary based on a longitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle and a latitude coordinate associated with the first vehicle, determining an area that abuts the defined peripheral boundary; and

broadcasting the metadata to the first vehicle and broadcasting the metadata to the area based on the common cross-section between the emergency event data and the vehicle data, wherein the metadata to the area is broadcast to a collection of radio access network devices that cooperate to broadcast the metadata to a second vehicle located in the area.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise initiating a session establishment protocol to establish a session with a network device of network devices associated with a radio access network.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the latitude coordinate is a first latitude coordinate, the longitude coordinate is a first longitude coordinate, and the defined peripheral boundary is a first peripheral boundary, and wherein the operations further comprise, as a function of a second longitude coordinate associated with the network device and a second latitude coordinate associated with the network device, determining a second defined peripheral boundary that encloses the network device.