Safety information transmission device

• US 20090037547A1
• Filed: 09/11/2008
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Endo, Tomotaka, Takeda, Kazumasa
• Granted Patent: US 7,987,277 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/00 Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/005 with transmission via computer network

Abstract

A safety information transmission device includes a reception unit that receives, via a network, safety information indicating whether or not a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful, and a control unit that determines, when a contact method is a contact by an electronic message and a contact destination address is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information to the electronic message address.

Claims

1. A safety information transmission device, comprising:

a reception unit that receives, via a network, safety information indicating whether or not a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful;

a storage unit that stores user information containing a contact method of the safety information with respect to a contact destination specified by the user, and a contact destination address corresponding to the contact method;

a control unit that determines, when the contact method is a contact by an electronic message and the contact destination address is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information to the electronic message address; and

a transmission unit that transmits the electronic message to the electronic message address in accordance with the determination of the control unit.

2. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the safety information received by an automated transaction device that serves as the information processing terminal.

3. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the safety information received by the information processing terminal via a screen information providing device that provides screen information for allowing the user to input the safety information to the information processing terminal.

4. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the safety information that is input by a substitute person different from the user, the safety information being received by the information processing terminal with an alternative operation to the biometric authentication being set as a condition.

5. The safety information transmission device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit instructs, at a time of occurrence of a disaster, the transmission unit to transmit a shift instruction that orders the automated transaction device located in a disaster-stricken area to shift to a state where an input of the safety information can be received.

6. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the safety information contains location information of the information processing terminal.

7. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the safety information contains information indicating whether the user is injured or not.

8. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the safety information contains information indicating whether or not there is an injured/sick person around the user.

9. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, when the safety information indicates that the user is injured, to communicate the safety information to another contact destination different from the contact destination specified by the user.

10. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, when the safety information indicates that there is an injured/sick person around the user, to communicate the safety information to another contact destination different from the contact destination specified by the user.

11. The safety information transmission device according to claim 4, wherein the control unit determines, when the safety information from the substitute person different from the user is received, to communicate the safety information to another contact destination different from the contact destination specified by the user.

12. The safety information transmission device according to claim 11, wherein the control unit determines, when the safety information from the substitute person different from the user is received, whether or not to communicate the safety information to the contact destination specified by the user, according to the user information.

13. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, the control unit monitors whether or not the information processing terminal is disconnected from the network, and determines, when the information processing terminal disconnected from the network is detected, to communicate location information of the information processing terminal to a predetermined contact destination.

14. A computer readable medium recorded with a program which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute the functions, comprising:

receiving, via a network, safety information indicating whether or not a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful;

reading out, from a storage unit, a contact method of the safety information with respect to a contact destination specified by the user and a contact destination address corresponding to the contact method;

determining, when the contact method is a contact by an electronic message and the contact destination address is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information to the electronic message address; and

transmitting the electronic message to the electronic message address in accordance with the determination.

15. A safety information transmission method, comprising:

receiving, via a network, safety information indicating whether or not a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful;

reading out, from a storage unit, a contact method of the safety information with respect to a contact destination specified by the user and a contact destination address corresponding to the contact method;

determining, when the contact method is a contact by an electronic message and the contact destination address is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information to the electronic message address; and

transmitting the electronic message to the electronic message address in accordance with the determination.