Automatic security alert system and method using mobile communication devices

• US 10,536,796 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2014
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bert Neil Pipes
• Original Assignee: Malcolm W. Pipes
• Inventors: Pipes, Malcolm Wade
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Kibrom T
• Application Number:
  US14/273,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20140321362A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,077 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• 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 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

An Automatic Emergency Call Initiator (AECI) initiates an automatic emergency call protocol on a mobile communication system, which can be done using signaling messages. The user uses the AECI to initiate the call on a mobile station. GPS or other location data is automatically determined. Data is stored on an Emergency Notification Server (ENS) associated with an event identifier for easy retrieval or notification to emergency responders. The ENS generates an automated call to a call center and also supports the automatic emergency call protocol by storing GPS and identifying info on mobile stations meeting location criteria of the AECI initiated call. The ENS can also tag a mobile station to continue tracking mobile stations coming within a specified distance of the mobile station. A security alert protocol for predetermined mobile stations detected by a network can also be implemented using the ENS.

Claims

1. A communication system implementing a security alert system, comprising:

at least one node on the communication system provisioned with data associated with at least one mobile station identifier associated with a person on a watch list and used to detect said at least one mobile station upon initial receipt of a signaling message containing said data;

a node on the communication system used in an automatic security call protocol to communicate to a location a security alert data packet; and

the communication system tags the at least one mobile station to automatically continue location tracking in real time.

2. The communication system of claim 1, wherein a node detects the at least one mobile station via a signaling data packet received from a mobile station.

3. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the system tags another mobile station meeting a location and time criteria in relation to an already tagged mobile station.

4. The communication system of claim 3, wherein a tagged another mobile station tags other mobile station meeting a location and time criteria in relation to the tagged another mobile station.

5. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the system tags another mobile station meeting a location and time criteria in relation to the tagged at least one mobile station.

6. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the system is used in a virtual, mobile emergency alarm protocol to notify a set of predetermined mobile stations of the location of the at least one mobile station and information relating to the security alert.

7. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the communication system executes a locator protocol to identify and record identifying data for all the mobile stations coining within a predetermined location and time criteria of the at least one mobile station.

8. The communication system of claim 1, further comprising:

a transceiver communication node that receives an emergency data packet used to summon help without voice communication from a human user of a transmitting mobile station;

a node transmitting an emergency call message in a text or voice format to an emergency call center, said node also communicating the location of the mobile station, and said emergency call message initiating an automatic emergency call protocol;

the system tagging the transmitting mobile station and any other mobile station meeting a location criteria in relation to the transmitting mobile station in response to the emergency data packet.

9. A communication system implementing a security alert system, comprising:

a communication system provisioned with a mobile station identifier associated with a person on a watch list used to detect said mobile station upon initial receipt of a message packet containing said mobile station identifier;

at least one node in the communication system programmed with an automatic security call protocol initiated upon detecting the said mobile station to communicate location and information relating to said mobile station in a security alert data packet; and

the communication system initiating a tagging protocol to tag the mobile station to automatically track its location in real time.

10. The communication system of claim 9, wherein the communication system uses one or more nodes in a hybrid GPS/radiolocation method to locate said mobile station.

11. The communication system of claim 9, wherein the communication system identifies all mobile stations entering a specified radius centered on a tagged mobile station, and tags any such identified mobile station remaining within the specified radius for a specified time duration.

12. The communication system of claim 9, further comprising:

the communication system alerts ones of a selected group of mobile stations of an initialized security alert protocol; and

each ones of said group of mobile stations receives location information on said tagged mobile station.

13. The communication system of claim 9, further comprising:

a node on the communication system detecting the least one mobile station identifier using a signaling message packet.

14. The communication system of claim 9, further comprising:

a server node generating and transmitting the security alert data packet.

15. The communication system of claim 9, further comprising:

a transceiver communication node that receives an emergency data packet used to summon help without voice communication from a human user of a transmitting mobile station;

a node transmitting an emergency call message in a text or voice format to an emergency call center, said node also communicating the location of the mobile station, and said emergency call message initiating an automatic emergency call protocol; and

the system tags the transmitting mobile station and any other mobile station meeting a location criteria centered on the transmitting mobile station.

16. A method for implementing a security alert on a telecommunication system, comprising:

provisioning at least one node on the communication system with at least one mobile device identifier, and then;

detecting said at least one mobile device identifier in an initial signaling message data packet;

executing an automatic security call protocol upon detecting to transmit a security alert message to a communication center; and

tagging the at least one mobile device to automatically track location in real time.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of:

executing a locator protocol to locate said mobile device, the locator protocol utilizing at least partially a radiolocation method to locate said mobile station.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

identifying all mobile devices entering a specified radius of a tagged mobile device for specified time duration.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of:

alerting ones of a group of mobile devices of an initialized security alert protocol; and

transmitting information relating to said tagged mobile device to each of said ones mobile devices.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

receiving an emergency data packet on the communication system to summon help without voice communication from a user of a transmitting mobile device;

transmitting an emergency call message in a text or voice format to an emergency call center, the call message also communicating the location of the transmitting mobile device; and

tagging the transmitting mobile device and any other mobile device matching a location criteria in relation to the transmitting mobile device.