Systems And Methods For Notifying Law Enforcement Officers Of Armed Intruder Situations

• US 20150199896A1
• Filed: 01/14/2015
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guard 911 LLC
• Original Assignee: Guard 911 LLC
• Inventors: Estes, Brian Lee, McVicker, Nathan John, Swip, Thomas Michel Jr., Snyders, Michael Ray, Martin, Charlton
• Granted Patent: US 9,905,117 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/22 responsive to presence or absence of persons
• 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 27/001 Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen

Abstract

A computer-implemented method executed by one or more computer servers includes receiving a notification from a communication device, determining whether one or more other communication devices are within a stationary geofence, and in response to the notification, sending an emergency alert to the other communication devices determined to be within the stationary geofence. The computer-implemented method may further include receiving an acknowledgement of the emergency alert from at least one of the other communication devices determined to be within the stationary geofence and/or sending data indicating an approximate location of the communication device and an associated tolerance of the approximate location. Other example computer-implemented methods, communication devices including software applications, and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method executed by one or more computer servers, the method comprising:

receiving a notification from a first communication device of a first plurality of communication devices, the notification indicating an armed intruder within a first stationary geofence;

determining whether one or more law enforcement officer (LEO) communication devices are within a second stationary geofence different than the first stationary geofence; and

in response to the notification, sending an emergency alert to the one or more LEO communication devices determined to be within the second stationary geofence.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving an acknowledgement of the emergency alert from at least one of the one or more LEO communication devices determined to be within the second stationary geofence, the acknowledgement including an indication of whether the acknowledging LEO is in uniform.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending to each LEO communication device that acknowledged the emergency alert a quantity indicating the number of LEOs in uniform that acknowledged the emergency alert and a quantity indicating the number of LEOs not in uniform that acknowledged the emergency alert.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising sending to each LEO communication device that acknowledged the emergency alert data indicating a location of each other acknowledging LEO in uniform and a location of each other acknowledging LEO not in uniform.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending a response plan to at least one communication device of the first plurality of communication devices, the response plan including one or more suggested actions for responding to the emergency alert.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending to each LEO communication device that acknowledged the emergency alert data indicating an approximate location of the first communication device.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising sending to said each LEO communication device that acknowledged the emergency alert data indicating an associated tolerance of the approximate location.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the notification is a first notification, the method further comprising receiving a second notification from at least one of the first plurality of communication devices, the second notification indicating a cancellation of the first notification.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending a message to one or more of the first plurality of communication devices.

16. The method of claim 14 further comprising determining whether one or more of the first plurality of communication devices are within the first stationary geofence and wherein sending the message includes sending the message to the one or more of the first plurality of communication devices determined to be within the first stationary geofence.

19. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether one or more of the first plurality of communication devices are within a third stationary geofence different than the first stationary geofence, and in response to receiving the notification, sending the emergency alert to said one or more of the first plurality of communication devices determined to be within the third stationary geofence.

21. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending the emergency alert to LEO communication devices determined to be outside the second stationary geofence in response to the notification.

22. The method of claim 1 wherein the notification is a first notification, the method further comprising receiving a second notification from one of the first plurality of communication devices indicating a system test.

3. (canceled)

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25. An LEO communication device comprising memory, one or more processors, a user interface, and a software application stored in the memory for execution by the one or more processors, the software application configured to receive an emergency alert indicating an armed intruder within a first stationary geofence if the LEO communication devices is located within a second stationary geofence different than the first stationary geofence, receive user input acknowledging the emergency alert and identifying whether the acknowledging LEO is in uniform, and send the received user input acknowledging the emergency alert and identifying whether the acknowledging LEO is in uniform.

26. The LEO communication device of claim 25 wherein the software application is configured display a map illustrating a location of each other acknowledging LEO in uniform and a location of each other acknowledging LEO not in uniform.

28. The LEO communication device of claim 25 wherein the software application is configured to display past alerts.

27. (canceled)

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33. A communication device comprising memory, one or more processors, a user interface, and a software application stored in the memory for execution by the one or more processors, the software application configured to send a notification indicating an armed intruder within a stationary geofence to a remote server in response to user input when the communication device is within the stationary geofence and not send the notification to the remote server in response to the user input when the communication device is outside the stationary geofence.

34. The communication device of claim 33 wherein the software application is configured to display a map illustrating an approximate location of at least one communication device of the plurality of communication devices that initiated the emergency alert indicating the armed intruder and an associated tolerance of the approximate location.

37. The communication device of claim 33 wherein the notification is a first notification and wherein the software application is configured to send a second notification cancelling the first notification indicating the armed intruder.

42. The communication device of claim 33 wherein the software application is configured to receive user input indicating a system testing mode.

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