Emergency contact apparatus and method for mobile communication

• US 20060066445A1
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Inventors: Lo, Tzu-Hsuan
• Application Number:
  US11/236,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20060066445A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/286.10
• 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 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 25/00 Audible advertising sound recording or reproducing per se G11B; public address systems H04R27/00

Abstract

This invention provides an emergency contact apparatus used in mobile communication. The emergency contact apparatus includes a memory device, a triggering device, a position responding device, and a transmitting device. The memory device is used for storing contact group information and an emergency message. The triggering device is used for generating a trigger signal. The position responding device is used for receiving the trigger signal and generating current position information. The transmitting device is connected to the memory device, the triggering device, and the position responding device. The transmitting device is used for receiving the trigger signal and transmitting the emergency message and the position information based on the contact group information.

Claims

1. An emergency contact apparatus used in a mobile communication, said emergency contact apparatus comprising:

a memory device for storing data associated with a pre-defined contact group and an emergency message;

a triggering device for generating a trigger signal once operated by a user;

a position responding device, electrically connected to the triggering device, for generating position information in response to the trigger signal; and

a transmitting device, electrically connected to the memory device, the triggering device and the position responding device respectively, for transmitting, responsive to the trigger signal, the emergency message and the position information in accordance with the data associated with the pre-defined contact group.

2. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 1, wherein the position information comprises a location area identity and a serving cell identity assigned in the mobile communication.

3. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory device is a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card.

4. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 1, wherein the triggering device is a button.

5. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a protecting device connected to the triggering device to prevent an unintended generation of the trigger signal when the user touches the triggering device by mistake.

6. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a local recorder, electrically connected to the triggering device and the transmitting device respectively, for retrieving, responsive to the trigger signal, a first voice message, and sending the first voice message to the transmitting device, wherein the transmitting device also transmits, responsive to the trigger signal, the first voice message in accordance with the data associated with the pre-defined contact group.

7. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first voice message comprising sound recording taken around said emergency contact apparatus.

8. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 7, wherein the transmitting device transmits the emergency message and the position information together with the first voice message.

9. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 6, wherein the transmitting device further generates a second voice message, and wherein the first voice message is ceased when the second voice message is generated.

10. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 9, wherein after the second voice message is terminated, the transmitting device further generates a reset message to a local recorder to generate the first voice message again.

11. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 6, further comprising a terminating device to stop generating the first voice message.

12. The emergency contact apparatus of claim 11, wherein the terminating device is further connected to the transmitting device, the transmitting device stopping transmitting the emergency message and the position information after receiving a terminating signal sent by the terminating device.

13. An emergency contact method used in mobile communication for employing a personal communication apparatus to transmit an emergency message to at least a predetermined contact apparatus, the emergency contact method comprising the following steps:

(a) generating a trigger signal by the personal communication apparatus;

(b) generating a position information of the personal communication apparatus after receiving the trigger signal; and

(c) transmitting the emergency message and the position information to the predetermined contact apparatus in a wireless manner according to information of a pre-defined contact group.

14. The emergency contact method of claim 13, wherein the position information comprises a location area identity and a serving cell identity assigned in the mobile communication.

15. The emergency contact method of claim 13, wherein the information of a pre-defined contact group is stored in the personal communication apparatus.

16. The emergency contact method of claim 13, wherein the emergency message is stored in the personal communication apparatus in advance.

17. The emergency contact method of claim 13, wherein the emergency message is a sound recording to the emergency contact apparatus.

18. The emergency contact method of claim 13, wherein the emergency contact method further comprises the following steps:

(d) generating a first voice message by the personal communication apparatus according to the trigger signal; and

(e) transmitting the first voice message by the personal communication apparatus to the predetermined contact apparatus.

19. The emergency contact method of claim 18, wherein the emergency contact method further comprises the following steps:

(f) generating a recording triggering signal by the personal communication apparatus according to the trigger signal;

(g) transmitting the first voice message by the personal communication apparatus to a remote recording apparatus; and

(h) storing the first voice message in the remote recording apparatus.

20. The emergency contact method of claim 18, wherein the emergency contact method further comprises the following steps:

(i) generating a second voice message by the personal communication apparatus, and when the personal communication apparatus starts generating the second voice message, the personal communication apparatus stopping generating the first voice message; and

(j) re-generating the first voice message to the predetermined contact apparatus by the personal communication apparatus after the transmission of the second voice message is terminated.