Safe status message delivery

• US 10,362,470 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2017
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bostick, James E., Ganci, Jr., John M., Keen, Martin G., Rakshit, Sarbajit K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Du, Hung K
• Application Number:
  US15/474,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20180288581A1
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/02 using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining emergency event data and user data of a mobile device user, wherein the user data of the mobile device user includes user biometric data obtained from a mobile device of the mobile device user; examining data of the emergency event data and data of the user data; and responsively to the examining, automatically outputting one or more text based status message.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining, by one or more processor, emergency event data and user data of a mobile device user, wherein the user data of the mobile device user includes user biometric data obtained from a mobile device of the mobile device user;

examining, by the one or more processor, data of the emergency event data and data of the user data, wherein the examining includes activating a user location classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device and geofence data determined from the data of the emergency event data to classify a location of the mobile device user, and wherein the activating further includes activating a vital signs classifier process that uses biometric data obtained from the mobile device to classify a vital sign condition of the mobile device user; and

responsively to the examining, automatically outputting, by the one or more processor, one or more text based status message specifying a status of the mobile device user, wherein the automatically outputting includes activating a status message generating process that generates a text based message based on an output of the user location classifier process and the vital signs classifier process, wherein the one or more text based status message specifying a status of the mobile device user includes a text based message output to a recipient user other than the mobile device user, wherein the text based message is discernible by the recipient user, wherein the method includes combining first, second, and third text segments together to provide the text based message, wherein the first text segment is text segment specifying a location of the mobile device user and is based on a determined location classifier for the mobile device user, wherein the second text segment is a text segment specifying vital sign information of the mobile device user and is based on a determined vital sign classifier for the mobile device user, and wherein the third text segment is a segment specifying a capacity of the mobile device user to move and is based on a determined mobility classifier for the mobile device user, wherein the first text segment is selected using a first lookup table that associates location specifying text segments to location classifiers for the mobile device user, wherein the second text segment is selected using a second lookup table that associates vital signs information specifying text segments to vital sign classifiers for the mobile device user, wherein third text segment is selected using a third lookup table that associates movement capacity specifying text segments to mobility classifiers for the mobile device user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining includes passively obtaining the user data of a mobile device user independent of use of a manually operated user interface of the mobile device by the mobile device user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the examining includes activating one or more of the following selected from the group consisting of:

(a) an activity classifier process that uses transaction log data of the mobile device to classify mobile device use activity of the mobile device user;

(b) a mobility classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device to classify a mobility of the mobile device user, and (c) a rescue team location classifier process that uses data obtained from a rescue center system to classify a location of a rescue team.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically outputting includes activating a status message generating process that generates a text based message based on an output of one or more the following selected from the group consisting of:

(a) an activity classifier process that uses transaction log data of the mobile device to classify mobile device use activity of the mobile device user; and

(b) a mobility classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device to classify a mobility of the mobile device user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the examining includes activating a user location classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device and geofence data determined from the data of the emergency event data to classify a location of the mobile device user, wherein the geofence data includes an emergency area geofence that specifies a first area, and a location of interest geofence, the location of interest geofence being larger than and encompassing the first area.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically outputting includes outputting a standard information status message to first one or more recipients, and outputting an enhanced information status message to second one or more recipients, wherein the first one or more recipients includes a social media website;

and wherein the second one or more recipients includes a rescue center system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the emergency event data is data of a weather service.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the examining includes comparing a location of the user to information specifying location of hospitals, wherein the automatically outputting includes conditionally outputting a status message specifying that the user is at a hospital conditionally on the condition that the examining determines that the user is at a hospital.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically outputting is performed based on user entered configuration settings of the user, the user entered configuration settings being entered using a manually operated user interface.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the examining includes activating one or more of the following classifier processes selected from the group consisting of:

(a) an activity classifier process that uses transaction log data of the mobile device to classify mobile device use activity of the mobile device user;

(b) a mobility classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device to classify a mobility of the mobile device user, and (c) a rescue team location classifier process that uses data obtained from a rescue center system to classify a location of a rescue team, wherein the outputting includes activating a status message generating process that generates a text based message based on an output of the one or more classifier processes, wherein the automatically outputting includes outputting a standard information status message to first one or more recipients, and outputting an enhanced information status message to second one or more recipients, wherein the enhanced information message is enhanced relative to the standard information message by inclusion of one or more of the following selected from the group consisting of;

(i) numerical biometric data;

(ii) content determined by examining an output of one or more additional sensor;

(iii) health information of the mobile device user previously uploaded to a data repository by the mobile device user; and

(iv) a coordinate location of the mobile device user, and wherein the obtaining includes obtaining the user data of a mobile device user independent of use of a manually operated user interface of the mobile device by the mobile device user.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically outputting includes outputting a standard information status message to a first recipient, and outputting an enhanced information status message to second recipient, wherein each of the first recipient and the second recipient are other than the mobile device user, wherein the enhanced information status message is enhanced relative to the standard information status message by inclusion of each of the following:

(a) numerical biometric data;

(b) content determined by examining an output of one or more additional sensor;

(c) health information of the mobile device user previously uploaded to a data repository by the mobile device user; and

(d) a coordinate location of the mobile device user.

12. A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium readable by one or more processing unit and storing instructions for execution by one or more processor for performing a method comprising;

obtaining emergency event data and user data of a mobile device user, wherein the user data of the mobile device user includes user biometric data obtained from a mobile device of the mobile device user;

examining data of the emergency event data and data of the user data, wherein the examining includes activating a user location classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device and geofence data determined from the data of the emergency event data to classify a location of the mobile device user, and wherein the activating further includes activating a vital signs classifier process that uses biometric data obtained from the mobile device to classify a vital sign condition of the mobile device user; and

responsively to the examining, automatically outputting one or more text based status message specifying a status of the mobile device user, wherein the automatically outputting includes activating a status message generating process that generates a text based message based on an output of the user location classifier process and the vital signs classifier process, wherein the one or more text based status message specifying a status of the mobile device user includes a text based message output to a recipient user other than the mobile device user, wherein the text based message is discernible by the recipient user, wherein the method includes combining first, second, and third text segments together to provide the text based message, wherein the first text segment is text segment specifying a location of the mobile device user and is based on a determined location classifier for the mobile device user, wherein the second text segment is a text segment specifying vital sign information of the mobile device user and is based on a determined vital sign classifier for the mobile device user, and wherein the third text segment is a segment specifying a capacity of the mobile device user to move and is based on a determined mobility classifier for the mobile device user, wherein the first text segment is selected using a first lookup table that associates location specifying text segments to location classifiers for the mobile device user, wherein the second text segment is selected using a second lookup table that associates vital signs information specifying text segments to vital sign classifiers for the mobile device user, wherein third text segment is selected using a third lookup table that associates movement capacity specifying text segments to mobility classifiers for the mobile device user.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the examining includes activating each of the following:

(a) an activity classifier process that uses transaction log data of the mobile device to classify mobile device use activity of the mobile device user;

(b) a mobility classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device to classify a mobility of the mobile device user, and (c) a rescue team location classifier process that uses data obtained from a rescue center system to classify a location of a rescue team.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the outputting includes activating a status message generating process that generates a text based message based on each of the following:

(a) an activity classifier process that uses transaction log data of the mobile device to classify mobile device use activity of the mobile device user; and

(b) a mobility classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device to classify a mobility of the mobile device user.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the automatically outputting includes outputting a standard information status message to first one or more recipients, and outputting an enhanced information status message to second one or more recipients, wherein the enhanced information status message is enhanced relative to the standard information status message by inclusion of each of the following:

(a) numerical biometric data;

(b) content determined by examining an output of one or more additional sensor;

(c) health information of the mobile device user previously uploaded to a data repository by the mobile device user; and

(d) a coordinate location of the mobile device user.

16. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the method includes based on GPS data of the mobile device indicating that the mobile device is not moving providing the third text segment to specify that the mobile device user is stuck.

17. A system comprising:

a memory;

at least one processor in communication with the memory; and

program instructions executable by one or more processor via the memory to perform a method comprising;

obtaining emergency event data and user data of a mobile device user, wherein the user data of the mobile device user includes user biometric data obtained from a mobile device of the mobile device user;

examining data of the emergency event data and data of the user data, wherein the examining includes activating a user location classifier process that uses location data of the mobile device and geofence data determined from the data of the emergency event data to classify a location of the mobile device user, and wherein the activating further includes activating a vital signs classifier process that uses biometric data obtained from the mobile device to classify a vital sign condition of the mobile device user; and

responsively to the examining, automatically outputting one or more text based status message specifying a status of the mobile device user, wherein the automatically outputting includes activating a status message generating process that generates a text based message based on an output of the user location classifier process and the vital signs classifier process, wherein the automatically outputting includes outputting a standard information status message to a first recipient, and outputting an enhanced information status message to second recipient, wherein each of the first recipient and the second recipient are other than the mobile device user, wherein the enhanced information status message is enhanced relative to the standard information status message by inclusion of each of the following;

(a) numerical biometric data;

(b) content determined by examining an output of one or more additional sensor;

(c) health information of the mobile device user previously uploaded to a data repository by the mobile device user; and

(d) a coordinate location of the mobile device user.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the method includes the mobile device user using a user interface to select (i) the first recipient, and (ii) the second recipient.