Emergency call from a cell phone

• US 20090197567A1
• Filed: 02/01/2008
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Babel Sewre LLC
• Original Assignee: Babel Sewre LLC
• Inventors: Ogram, Mark Ellery
• Application Number:
  US12/012,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20090197567A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.2
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance
• 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 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence

Abstract

The invention provides a portable communications apparatus which is useful for reporting positional status report to a user-selected recipient(s). Using a global-positioning-receiver (i.e. GPS) to generate a location indicia of the portable communications apparatus, and a pre-defined user-generated message with at least one user-defined recipient, the apparatus, when activated by the user, sends the user-defined message, together with the location information, to the user-defined recipient. This information is useful for alerting the recipient of the user'"'"'s location or to notify the recipient that assistance is needed.

Claims

1. A portable communications apparatus comprising:

a) a global-positioning-receiver generating a location indicia of a location of the portable communications apparatus;

b) a communications system capable of sending a message to a user-defined remote receiver;

c) a messaging system having,

1) a user-defined message,

2) at least one user-defined remote receiver identifier, and,

3) location identifiers employing the location indicia; and

,

wherein, when said messaging system is activated by a user of the portable communications apparatus, via the communications system, the user-defined message and the location identifiers are sent to a destination associated with each of the at least one user-defined remote receiver identifier.

2. The portable communications apparatus according to claim 1:

a) further including a memory; and

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b) wherein said user-defined message and the at least one user-defined remote receiver identifier are stored in said memory at least one day prior to said messaging system being activated by a user.

3. The portable communications apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said at least one user-defined remote receiver identifiers includes an emergency agency identifier.

4. The portable communications apparatus according to claim 1,

a) further including a mapping system employing the location indicia and generating a current position map therefrom;

and,

b) wherein said messaging system, when activated by a user, includes said current position map.

5. The portable communications apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said mapping system also includes an approximate address for the location indicia.

6. The portable communications apparatus according to claim 5, further including a single user-activated button for activating said messaging system.

7. The portable communications apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said messaging system is activated when a user activates a 9-1-1 call.

8. A cellular telephone comprising:

a) a global-positioning-receiver generating a location indicia of a location of the portable communications apparatus; and

,

b) a messaging system having,

1) a user-defined message,

2) a user-defined remote receiver identifier, and,

3) location identifiers employing the location indicia; and

,

wherein, when said messaging system is activated by a user of the portable communications apparatus, the user-defined message and the location identifiers are formed into a status message and sent to a destination associated with the user-defined remote receiver identifier.

9. The cellular telephone according to claim 8,

a) further including a mapping system employing the location indicia and generating a current position map therefrom;

and,

b) wherein the status message includes said current position map.

10. The cellular telephone according to claim 9,

a) wherein said mapping system also includes an approximate address for the location indicia;

and,

b) wherein the approximate address is included in the status message.

11. A portable communications system comprising:

a) a receiving/transmitting apparatus configured to receive messages from a first remote apparatus and transmit messages to a second remote apparatus;

b) a receiving unit configured to receive messages from the receiving/transmitting apparatus; and

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c) a transmitting unit being portable and configured to transmit messages to the receiving/transmitting apparatus, said transmitting unit having,

1) a global-positioning-receiver generating a location indicia indicative of a location of the transmitting unit, and,

2) a messaging system, when activated, communicating, via the receiving/transmitting apparatus, a status message having the location indicia to the receiving unit.

12. The portable communications system according to claim 11, wherein the transmitting unit includes a single user-activated button for activating said messaging system.

13. The portable communications system according to claim 12, wherein the status message includes a user-defined text message.

14. The portable communications system according to claim 13,

a) wherein the transmitting unit further includes a mapping system employing the location indicia and generating a current position map therefrom;

and,

b) wherein the status message includes the current position map.

15. The portable communications system according to claim 12, wherein the receiving/transmitting apparatus includes:

a) a memory having a text message stored therein, said text message being previously defined by a user of the transmitting unit; and

,

b) a message modifying system adapted to add the text message from the memory to the status message prior to being sent to the receiving unit.

16. The portable communications system according to claim 15, wherein the receiving/transmitting apparatus;

a) further includes a mapping system employing the location indicia from the transmitting unit and generating a current position map therefrom; and

,

b) wherein the message modifying system includes the current position map in the status message a status message prior to the status message being sent to the receiving unit.