Intelligent help-requesting apparatus for the GPS

• US 20080174486A1
• Filed: 01/19/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hung-Fu Lee
• Original Assignee: Hung-Fu Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Hung-Fu
• Application Number:
  US11/655,285
• Publication Number:
  US 20080174486A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.07
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/006 for emergency situations
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72421 with automatic activation of emergency service functions, e.g. upon sensing an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver

Abstract

The present invention employs speed sensing module for sensing the occurring of the abnormal acceleration and automatically conveying such message to internal process unit of intelligent satellite positioning apparatus, said process unit also simultaneously receiving the positioning signal from satellite positioning receiving module and transmitting it to the server of telecommunications provider via communication module then relaying to liaison-party as well; meanwhile, said process unit also sends the speed abnormal error-alerting message together along with the positioning signal to remote server, where said positioning signal being converted into E-map or short message mode thereat, via network module; then, all these messages are relayed to liaison-party via the Internet; thus, the present invention enables liaison-party not only receive the message from telecommunications provider but also receive the network message and positioning message from remote server so as to quickly handle it effectively.

Claims

1. An intelligent help-requesting apparatus for GPS (Global Positioning System) comprises:

a satellite positioning receiving module configured to capture a positioning signal form the satellite and then relay the positioning signal to a process unit;

the process unit receiving information from said satellite positioning receiving module and serving as the processing center for a speed sensing module a communication module and a network module, then effectively transmitting the received information to each module respectively;

the speed sensing module configured for sensing the happening of the abnormal acceleration by detecting instantaneous acceleration to produce an error-alerting signal to said process unit;

the communication module for receiving the signal from said process unit and relaying it to a remote server of a telecommunications provider so that the positioning signal is transmitted to a predetermined liaison-party via said telecommunications provider; and

the network module for receiving the positioning signal from said process unit and relaying it to the remote server so that the positioning signal is converted into an electronic map or a short message in order to pass the information to the predetermined liaison-party via said remote server.

2. The intelligent help-requesting apparatus for the GPS as recited in the claim 1, wherein, said satellite positioning receiving module is a SiRE microcontroller.

3. The intelligent help-requesting apparatus for the GPS as recited in the claim 1, wherein, said communication module is a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) or CDMA (Code-division Multiple Access/handsets) module.

4. The intelligent help-requesting apparatus for the GPS as recited in the claim 1, wherein, said communication module is a PHS (Personal Handy-phone System) module.

5. The intelligent help-requesting apparatus for the GPS as recited in the claim 1, wherein, said liaison-party is assigned one person.