Systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device

• US 10,687,194 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2018
• Issued: 06/16/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SIPCO LLC (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SIPCO LLC (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Petite, Thomas David
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Danh C
• Application Number:
  US16/205,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20190098480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 4554042, 4554561, 4555501, 379 45
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/17 Emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• 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]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

The present invention is directed to systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device. In an exemplary embodiment, a system for communicating emergency messages is provided comprising a mobile device comprising an emergency message application and a personal emergency message transceiver, an emergency message control center, wherein the emergency message application is enabled to receive a plurality of emergency messages generated by the emergency message control center.

Claims

1. A system for communicating emergency messages to a mobile device having a personal emergency message transceiver, the system comprising:

an emergency message application installed on the mobile device and communicatively connected with the personal emergency message transceiver;

wherein the emergency message application is enabled to receive one or more emergency messages from the personal emergency message transceiver;

wherein the emergency message application includes one or more user-configurable preferences including instructions to provide an emergency message if a geographical area associated with the emergency message corresponds to a predetermined radius about a current location of the mobile device; and

wherein the emergency message application is enabled to instruct the mobile device to display an indication of the one or more emergency messages.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a global positioning system (GPS) communicatively connected to the emergency message application.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the GPS is configured to provide location data indicative of the current location of the mobile device to the emergency message application.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the location data is associated with a geographic parameter corresponding to the current location of the mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the personal emergency message transceiver is enabled to communicate with a wireless router.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the emergency message application is configured to communicate with an emergency message system control center via an Internet connection provided by the wireless router.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the emergency message system control center provides the one or more emergency messages to the personal emergency message transceiver.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency message application is configured to communicate with a social media application.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the emergency message application is configured to receive a geographic parameter corresponding to the current location of the mobile device from the social media application.

10. A mobile wireless communication device comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive one or more emergency messages generated by an emergency message system control center;

a memory;

an emergency message application operatively connected to the memory and the transceiver, wherein the emergency message application is configured to receive the one or more emergency messages from the transceiver;

wherein the emergency message application includes one or more user-configurable preferences including instructions to provide an emergency message if a geographical area associated with the emergency message corresponds to a user-selected geographical area and a geographic parameter corresponding to a current location of the mobile wireless communication device; and

wherein the emergency message application is configured to instruct the mobile device to display an indication of the one or more emergency messages.

11. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 10, further comprising a global positioning system (GPS) communicatively connected with the emergency message application.

12. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 11, wherein the GPS is configured to provide location data regarding a current location of the mobile wireless communication device to the emergency message application.

13. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 12, wherein the location data is associated with the geographic parameter corresponding to the current location of the mobile wireless communication device.

14. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 10, wherein the transceiver is enabled to communicate with a wireless router.

15. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 14, wherein the emergency message application is configured to communicate with the emergency message system control center via an Internet connection provided by the wireless router.

16. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 10, wherein the mobile wireless communication device is configured to receive the one or more emergency messages from an emergency message control center via the transceiver.

17. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 10, wherein the emergency message application is configured to communicate with a social media application.

18. The mobile wireless communication device of claim 17, wherein the emergency message application is configured to receive the geographic parameter corresponding to the current location of the mobile wireless communication device from the social media application.

19. A wireless communication device comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive one or more emergency messages;

a memory; and

an emergency message application operatively connected to the memory and the transceiver wherein the emergency message application is enabled to receive the one or more emergency messages from the transceiver;

wherein the emergency message application is configured to instruct the wireless communication device to provide an indication of the one or more emergency messages if (i) a geographical area associated with the emergency message corresponds to a user-selected geographical area and (ii) the geographical area associated with the emergency message corresponds to a geographic parameter corresponding to a current approximated location of the wireless communication device.

20. The wireless communication device of claim 19, further comprising a global positioning system (GPS), the GPS configured to provide location data to the emergency message application and wherein the one or more emergency messages are generated based on the location data.