METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN EMERGENCY LOCATION INFORMATION SERVICE (E-LIS) FROM WEARABLE DEVICES

• US 20140295786A1
• Filed: 06/13/2014
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Everbridge Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Gerald R. Eisner, Nicholas M. Maier
• Inventors: MAIER, Nicholas M., EISNER, Gerald R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,918,075 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• 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 and system for determining and verifying a location of wearable mobile devices (e.g., digital glasses, watches, etc.) in emergency situations with emergency messages including legacy 911, E911 and text-to-911 messages. The method and system provide a current physical geographic location for wearable mobile devices (e.g., spot, chair, desk on in a room on a building floor, campus, enterprise, city, state, region, country, continent, etc.), in an emergency situation such as an accident, fire, terrorist attack, military incident, weather, flood event, etc. and forward the current physical geographic location to a legacy 911 network, a Emergency Services IP networks (ESInet) or text-to-911 Short Message Services (SMS) networks.

Claims

1. A method for locating a mobile wearable device during an emergency with an emergency information system (E-LIS), comprising:

receiving on a server application on a network server device with one or more processors a wireless emergency message or a text-to-911 message from a mobile application on a first wearable mobile network device with one or more processors via a wireless communications network indicating an emergency event has occurred with the first wearable mobile network device,

the wireless emergency message or text-to-911 including a unique identifier comprising a specialized E911-based unique identifier for the first mobile wearable network device unique across all wireless and wired communications network and including a current set of 3D (X,Y, Z) geo-space coordinates for the first mobile wearable network device;

determining on the server application on the server network device with the E911-based unique identifier and the current set of 3D (X,Y, Z) geo-space coordinates a current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device;

verifying on the server application on the server network device via the wireless communications network or a wired communications network the first wearable mobile network device is actually located at the determined current physical geographic location; and

sending an emergency response message or a 911-to-text message including the determined and verified current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device from the server application on the network server device via a second communications network to a desired emergency response server with one or more processors.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending a text-to-911 response message from the server application on the network server device back to the mobile application on the first wearable mobile network device via the wireless communications network confirming the text-to-911 message has been received from the first wearable mobile network device; and

requesting in the text-to-911 response message additional information about the emergency event that has occurred from the first wearable mobile network device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the first wearable mobile network device includes wearable digital glasses, clothing, jewelry, watches, wrist bands or fitness bands, each with one or more processors.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the desired emergency response server is an E911 or 911 emergency response server, a text-to-911 server, a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) server, an Emergency Services IP networks (ESInet) server or an emergency gateway network server device, each with one or more processors.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the first wearable mobile network device, the server network device and the desired emergency response server communicate with each other and other network devices with wireless or wired near field communications (NFC) or machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of sending an emergency response message or a 911-to-text message includes sending the sending the emergency response message or a 911-to-text message through an E-2 interface.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless emergency message further includes a triggering event from a sensor, another network device or a social media application on another network device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the current 3D (X,Y, Z) geo-space coordinates at the current physical location includes current 3D (X,Y, Z) geo-space coordinates for a chair at a desk in a room in an office on a building floor, a spot on a building floor, a building floor in a building, building on a street in an enterprise, campus, village, town, city, state, country or continent or global region.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless emergency message includes an E911 communication message, a legacy 911 communication message, a Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) message or PAM Interface Protocol (PAM) message.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the emergency response messages include a legacy 911 message, an E911 emergency message and wherein the text-to-911 messages include Short Message Services (SMS) protocol messages and Real-Time Text (RTT) protocol messages.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising a wired access point and the first wearable mobile network device connected to a wired communications network with a wired connection.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the emergency message and text-to-911 messages are received on the server application on the network server device over wireless or wired interfaces including:

Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS), cellular telephone, Personal Communications Services network (PCS), Packet Cellular Network (PCN), Global System for Mobile Communications, (GSM), Generic Packet Radio Services (GPRS), Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), IEEE 802.11xx, Global Positioning System (GPS), GPS map, Digital GPS (DGPS), Instant Messaging (IM), Short Message Services (SMS), Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID), Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM), Zigbee, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) message, PAM Interface Protocol (PAM), Internet Protocol (IP), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) over IP (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) over IP (UDP/IP), Real Time Text (RTT), Text-over-IP (ToIP), Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Hybrid dual-stack IPv6 and IPv4, Internet Protocol television (IPTV), Web-TV, Internet television, or a Cable Television (CATV) wired or wireless interface.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the E911-based unique identifier includes a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) for the first wearable mobile network device unique across all wireless and wired communications network the first wearable mobile network device is connected to.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the emergency event includes an accident, event, fire event, terrorist attack event, military event, weather event, flood event or crime event.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the emergency event includes an emergency event detected by an accelerometer, radio frequency identifier (RFID) sensor, a barometric sensor, a moisture sensor, an altimeter or a temperature sensor included on the first wearable mobile network device.

17. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying on the server network device or another server network device with one or more processors in real-time on a graphical map the determined current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device for one or more desired emergency response agencies.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the verifying step includes:

sending one or more verification request messages via the wireless communications network or a wired communication network to one or more other server network devices each with one or more processors or one or more other mobile network devices each with one or more processors known to be at a pre-determined distance from the determined current physical geographic location of the first wearable mobile network device;

receiving one or more verification response messages via the wireless communications network or wired communications network on the server application on the server network device from the one or more other server network devices or the one or more other mobile network devices verifying the first wearable mobile network device is actually located in at the determined current physical geographic location.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the one or more other server network devices include Global Positioning System (GPS) server network devices, cell tower server network devices or location comparison server network devices.

2. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein a plurality of instructions configured for causing one or more processors to execute the steps of:

receiving on a server application on a network server device with one or more processors a wireless emergency message or a text-to-911 message from a mobile application on a first wearable mobile network device with one or more processors via a wireless communications network indicating an emergency event has occurred with the first wearable mobile network device,

the wireless emergency message or text-to-911 including a unique identifier comprising a specialized E911-based unique identifier for the first mobile wearable network device unique across all wireless and wired communications network and including a current set of 3D (X,Y, Z) geo-space coordinates for the first mobile wearable network device;

determining on the server application on the server network device with the E911-based unique identifier and the current set of 3D (X, Y, Z) geo-space coordinates a current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device;

verifying on the server application on the server network device via the wireless communications network or a wired communications network the first wearable mobile network device is actually located at the determined current physical geographic location; and

sending an emergency response message or a 911-to-text message including the determined and verified current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device from the server application on the network server device via a second communications network to a desired emergency response server with one or more processors.

20. An emergency location information system (E-LIS) for mobile wearable network devices, comprising in combination:

a non-transitory computer readable medium;

the non-transitory computer readable medium have stored therein a plurality of instructions for causing one or more processors on one or more network devices to be configured for;

for receiving on a server application on a network server device with one or more processors a wireless emergency message or a text-to-911 message from a mobile application on a first wearable mobile network device with one or more processors via a wireless communications network indicating an emergency event has occurred with the first wearable mobile network device,

the wireless emergency message or text-to-911 including a unique identifier comprising a specialized E911-based unique identifier for the first mobile wearable network device unique across all wireless and wired communications network and including a current set of 3D (X,Y, Z) geo-space coordinates for the first mobile wearable network device,

the first wearable mobile network device including digital glasses, clothing, jewelry, watches, wrist bands or fitness bands, each with one or more processors;

for determining on the server application on the server network device with the E911-based unique identifier and the current set of 3D (X,Y,Z) geo-space coordinates a current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device;

for verifying on the server application on the server network device via the wireless communications network the first wearable mobile network device is actually located at the determined current physical geographic location;

for sending an emergency response message or a 911-to-text message including the determined and verified current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device from the server application on the network server device via a second communications network to a desired emergency response server with one or more processors; and

for displaying in real-time on the server network device or another server network device with one or more processors on a graphical map the determined current physical geographic location for the first wearable mobile network device for one or more desired emergency response agencies.