PERSONAL SAFETY DEVICE, SYSTEM AND PROCESS

• US 20100330952A1
• Filed: 06/25/2010
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Patrick John Yeoman
• Original Assignee: Patrick John Yeoman
• Inventors: Yeoman, Patrick John
• Application Number:
  US12/824,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20100330952A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72424 with manual activation of emergency-service functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver

Abstract

A personal safety system, including: a mobile telephone device; and a personal safety device, including: a sensor, a transceiver module configured to send, in response to activation of the sensor by a user, an activation signal to the mobile telephone device via a wireless link, and an indicator configured to indicate to the user: a device state of the personal safety device, including an activated state corresponding to the activation of the sensor; and reception of an incoming call or message by the mobile telephone device, wherein: the mobile telephone device is configured to generate an alert signal based on the activation signal, and to send the alert signal to a recipient based on alerting configuration data representing the recipient pre-selected by the user; the alert signal represents user location data representing a location of the mobile telephone device; and the sensor includes a proximity sensor which is activated by the personal safety device being out of communication range of the mobile telephone device.

Claims

1. A personal safety system, including:

a mobile telephone device; and

a personal safety device, including;

a sensor,

a transceiver module configured to send, in response to activation of the sensor by a user, an activation signal to the mobile telephone device via a wireless link, and

an indicator configured to indicate to the user;

a device state of the personal safety device, including an activated state corresponding to the activation of the sensor; and

reception of an incoming call or message by the mobile telephone device,

wherein;

the mobile telephone device is configured to generate an alert signal based on the activation signal, and to send the alert signal to a recipient based on alerting configuration data representing the recipient pre-selected by the user;

the alert signal represents user location data representing a location of the mobile telephone device; and

the sensor includes a proximity sensor which is activated by the personal safety device being out of communication range of the mobile telephone device.

2. The personal safety system of claim 1, wherein the mobile telephone device is configured to de-activate the alert signal using a stop code received by the mobile telephone device.

3. The personal safety system of claim 1, wherein the indicator includes a tactile indicator.

4. The personal safety system of claim 1, wherein the personal safety device includes a microphone configured to communicate audio signals from the user to the mobile device for the recipient.

5. The personal safety system of claim 1, wherein the indicator includes a display configured to display a display message to the user, wherein the display message represents the device state of the personal safety device.

6. The personal safety system of claim 5, wherein the display message represents information associated with a function of the mobile telephone device.

7. The personal safety system of claim 6, wherein the display message represents an originator identifier that identifies an origin of a call or message received by the mobile telephone device.

8. The personal safety system of claim 1, wherein the mobile telephone device is configured to activate one or more audio-visual functions of the mobile telephone device to capture audio-visual signals in response to receiving the activation signal.

9. The personal safety system of claim 1, wherein the personal safety device includes a user control configured to control one or more functions of the mobile telephone device.

10. The personal safety system of claim 9, wherein the one or more functions include answering an incoming call to the mobile telephone device.

11. The personal safety system of claim 1, including a personal safety server configured to receive data representing the activation of the personal safety device from the mobile telephone device over a communications network.

12. A personal safety process including:

detecting an activation of a sensor of a personal safety device by a user;

sending, in response to detecting the activation, an activation signal to a mobile telephone device via a wireless link;

indicating to the user a device state of the personal safety device, including an activated state corresponding to the activation of the sensor;

indicating, by the personal safety device, to the user reception of an incoming call or message by the mobile telephone;

generating an alert signal based on the activation signal by the mobile telephone device; and

sending the alert signal by the mobile telephone device to a recipient, based on alerting configuration data representing the recipient pre-selected by the user,

wherein;

the alert signal represents user location data representing a location of the mobile telephone device; and

the sensor includes a proximity sensor which is activated by the personal safety device being out of communication range of the mobile telephone device.

13. The personal safety process of claim 12, including de-activating the alert signal using a stop code received by the mobile telephone device.

14. The personal safety process of claim 12, wherein the indicating includes tactile indicating.

15. The personal safety process of claim 12, including communicating audio signals from the user to the recipient using the personal safety device and the mobile device.

16. The personal safety process of claim 12, including activating one or more audio-visual functions of the mobile telephone device to capture audio-visual signals in response to receiving the activation signal.

17. The personal safety process of claim 12, including sending data representing the activation of the personal safety device from the mobile telephone device to a server over a communications network.

18. Computer-readable storage having stored thereon programming instructions configured to cause one or more processors to execute the process of claim 12.

19. A personal safety system, including:

a mobile telephone device; and

a personal safety device, including;

a sensor, and a transceiver module configured to send, in response to activation of the sensor by a user, an activation signal to the mobile telephone device via a wireless link,

wherein;

the mobile telephone device is configured to generate an alert signal based on the activation signal, and to send the alert signal to a recipient based on alerting configuration data representing the recipient pre-selected by the user;

the alert signal represents user location data representing a location of the mobile telephone device; and

the sensor includes a proximity sensor which is activated by the personal safety device being out of communication range of the wireless link.

20. A personal safety process including:

detecting an activation of a sensor of a personal safety device by a user;

sending, in response to detecting the activation, an activation signal to a mobile telephone device via a wireless link;

generating an alert signal based on the activation signal by the mobile telephone device; and

sending the alert signal by the mobile telephone device to a recipient, based on alerting configuration data representing the recipient pre-selected by the user,

wherein;

the alert signal represents user location data representing a location of the mobile telephone device; and

the sensor includes a proximity sensor which is activated by the personal safety device being out of communication range of the wireless link.