User Configurable Emergency Alert System for Mobile Wireless Devices

• US 20140273912A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Peh, Guat Chai, Koh, Shuh Shyan
• Application Number:
  US13/976,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20140273912A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

An emergency alert system of an aspect includes an emergency alert system configuration module to allow a user to configure a phone number to which an emergency alert is to be sent. The system also includes a touchscreen interface module to receive an indication from a user, through a touchscreen display device, that the emergency alert is to be sent. The system also includes an emergency alert module coupled with the touchscreen interface module. The emergency alert module, in response to the indication, is to cause the emergency alert to be sent to the user configured phone number through a wireless signal that is to be transmitted by an antenna.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. An emergency alert system comprising:

an emergency alert system configuration module to allow a user to configure a phone number to which an emergency alert is to be sent;

a touchscreen interface module to receive an indication from a user, through a touchscreen display device, that the emergency alert is to be sent; and

an emergency alert module coupled with the touchscreen interface module, the emergency alert module in response to the indication to cause the emergency alert to be sent to the user configured phone number through a wireless signal that is to be transmitted by an antenna.

27. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the emergency alert system configuration module is to allow the user to configure the phone number to be any valid phone number.

28. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the emergency alert system configuration module is to allow the user to configure the phone number to be any of at least a phone number of a friend, a phone number of a relative, and a phone number of a neighbor.

29. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the emergency alert system configuration module is to allow the user to configure the emergency alert to include content selected from a medical condition of the user, a medicine the user is taking, a health care provider of the user, contact information for the health care provider of the user, an insurance provider, contact information for the insurance provider, and an insurance policy number of the user.

30. The emergency alert system of claim 26, further comprising a module to autonomously include a location of the apparatus in the emergency alert.

31. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the emergency alert system configuration module is to allow the user to record an emergency alert voice message which is to be sent by the emergency alert module in response to the indication by the user.

32. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the emergency alert system configuration module is to allow the user to configure multiple different phone numbers, and wherein the emergency alert module is to cause an emergency alert to be sent to each of the multiple user configured phone numbers.

33. The emergency alert system of claim 32, wherein the emergency alert module is to cause a call flow in which emergency alert phone calls are made in sequence and each to a different one of the different phone numbers.

34. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the emergency alert module is to cause the emergency alert to be sent to the user configured phone number as an emergency alert text message, and is to cause a second emergency alert to be sent to the user configured phone number as an emergency alert phone message.

35. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the touchscreen interface module is to present an icon for the emergency alert system on the touchscreen display device, and wherein the icon when touched is to cause the emergency alert system to send the emergency alert to the user configured phone number.

36. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the touchscreen interface module is to receive the indication from the user based on the user pressing on the touchscreen for at least two seconds.

37. The emergency alert system of claim 26, wherein the touchscreen interface module is to receive the indication from the user even when a mobile wireless device in which the emergency alert system is included is one of locked and in a sleep mode.

38. An emergency alert method comprising:

receiving input from a user through a touchscreen display device and based on the input configuring a phone number to which an emergency alert is to be sent;

receiving an indication from the user, through the touchscreen display device, that the emergency alert is to be sent; and

causing the emergency alert to be sent to the configured phone number through a wireless signal transmitted by an antenna in response to receiving the indication.

39. The emergency alert method of claim 38, wherein configuring the phone number comprises configuring the phone number to be any valid phone number.

40. The emergency alert method of claim 38, further comprising receiving input from the user to configure the emergency alert to include content selected from a medical condition of the user, a medicine the user is taking, a health care provider of the user, contact information for the health care provider of the user, an insurance provider, contact information for the insurance provider, and an insurance policy number of the user.

41. The emergency alert method of claim 38, further comprising autonomously including a location of the touchscreen display device in the emergency alert.

42. The emergency alert method of claim 38, further comprising:

configuring multiple different phone numbers based on the input from the user; and

causing an emergency alert to be sent to each of the multiple different phone numbers, wherein causing the emergency alert to be sent to each of the multiple different phone numbers comprises causing a call flow in which emergency alert phone calls are made in sequence and each to a different one of the multiple different phone numbers.

43. The emergency alert method of claim 38, wherein receiving the input from the user comprises receiving the input from the user by the user touching on the touchscreen display for at least two seconds.

44. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a machine, will cause the machine to perform operations including:

configuring a phone number to which an emergency alert is to be sent based on input from a user through a touchscreen display device;

receiving an indication from the user, through the touchscreen display device, that the emergency alert is to be sent; and

causing the emergency alert to be sent to the configured phone number through a wireless signal transmitted by an antenna in response to receiving the indication.

45. The article of manufacture of claim 44, wherein the instructions to configure the phone number comprise instructions that if executed will cause the machine to configure the phone number to be any valid phone number.

46. The article of manufacture of claim 44, further comprising instructions that if executed will cause the machine to configure the emergency alert to include content selected from a medical condition of the user, a medicine the user is taking, a health care provider of the user, contact information for the health care provider of the user, an insurance provider, contact information for the insurance provider, and an insurance policy number of the user.

47. A wireless emergency alert device comprising:

an antenna;

a wireless transceiver coupled with the antenna, the wireless transceiver to transmit and receive wireless signals with the antenna;

a touchscreen display device to receive an indication from a user that an emergency alert is to be sent; and

a configurable emergency alert system coupled with the touchscreen display device, the configurable emergency alert system to cause the emergency alert to be sent to a user configured phone number through the wireless transceiver and the antenna based on an indication from the user that the emergency alert is to be sent.

48. The wireless emergency alert device of claim 47, wherein the configurable emergency alert system is to allow the user configured phone number to be any valid phone number, and wherein the configurable emergency alert system is to allow the user to configure the emergency alert to include content selected from a medical condition of the user, a medicine the user is taking, a health care provider of the user, contact information for the health care provider of the user, an insurance provider, contact information for the insurance provider, and an insurance policy number of the user.