Method for requesting rescue by receiving disaster alarm signal and apparatus thereof

• US 20090061891A1
• Filed: 03/07/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KT Tech, Inc. (KT Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KTF Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Chung, Ta-Sik
• Application Number:
  US12/073,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20090061891A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/02 using radio waves G01S19/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/17 Emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/006 with transmission via telephone network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• 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 4/90 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

A method of requesting a rescue by receiving a disaster alarm signal and a method thereof are disclosed. The method of requesting a rescue by a user terminal, which is connected to a disaster informing server and a rescue center through a communication network, can include receiving a disaster alarm signal from the disaster informing server, generating a corresponding RF signal by receiving the disaster alarm signal, and outputting the generated RF signal. The rescue center can position the user terminal by analyzing an RF response signal sent from a movable rescue apparatus including an RF module for receiving the RF signal.

Claims

1. A method of requesting a rescue by a user terminal connected to a disaster informing server and a rescue center through a communication network, the method comprising:

receiving a disaster alarm signal from the disaster informing server;

generating a corresponding RF signal by receiving the disaster alarm signal; and

outputting the generated RF signal,

whereas the rescue center positions the user terminal by analyzing an RF response signal sent from a movable rescue apparatus including an RF module for receiving the RF signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of receiving the disaster alarm signal, the disaster alarm signal is received by using a cell broadcasting server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of generating the RF signal, the RF signal includes a rescue message.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the rescue message includes position information of the user terminal.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the position information of the user terminal is extracted by using a GPS signal received from a global positioning system (GPS) satellite.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the RF signal has a predetermined frequency band.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined frequency band is not used for mobile communication.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the rescue center pre-acquires a position of the user terminal in units of base station by receiving the disaster alarm signal from the disaster informing server.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the method of allowing the rescue center to position the user terminal, the rescue center generates position information of the user terminal by using the difference between transmission time information related to a time when the RF signal is transmitted and reception time information related to a time when a movable rescue apparatus receives the RF signal, the transmission time information and the reception time information being included in the RF response signal received from the movable rescue apparatus at a periphery of the user terminal.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the RF response signal comprises a magnitude of the RF signal, and the rescue center generates position information of the user terminal by measuring a distance between the user terminal and the movable rescue apparatus according to the magnitude of the RF signal received from the movable rescue apparatus at a periphery of the user terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the magnitude of the RF signal is inversely proportional to any one variable among the square of the distance between the user terminal and the movable rescue apparatus, the cube of the distance between the user terminal and the movable rescue apparatus, and the distance between the user terminal and the movable rescue apparatus, multiplied to the fourth power.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the RF response signal comprises phase information of the RF signal, and the rescue center generates position information of the user terminal according to the phase information of the RF signal.

13. The method of Clam 9, wherein the number of movable rescue apparatuses is three.

14. A recording medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a terminal connected to a disaster informing server and a rescue center through a communication network, the recording medium being readable by a digital processing apparatus, the program comprising:

receiving a disaster alarm signal from the disaster informing server;

generating a corresponding RF signal by receiving the disaster alarm signal; and

outputting the generated RF signal,

whereas the rescue center positions the user terminal by analyzing an RF response signal sent from a movable rescue apparatus including an RF module for receiving the RF signal.

15. A terminal connected to a disaster informing server and a rescue center through a communication network, the terminal comprising:

a signal receiving unit, receiving a disaster alarm signal from the disaster informing server;

an RF signal generating unit, generating an RF signal having a predetermined frequency band according to the received disaster alarm signal;

an RF signal output unit, outputting the generated RF signal; and

a terminal control unit, controlling generation and output of the RF signal.

16. The terminal of claim 15, further comprising a position information generating unit generating position information of the user terminal.

17. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the position information generating unit generates the position information by using a GPS signal received from a global positioning system (GPS) satellite.

18. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the signal receiving unit receives the disaster alarm signal by using a cell broadcasting server.

19. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the predetermined frequency band is not used for mobile communication.