METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING A PANIC ALERT NOTIFICATION

• US 20150332581A1
• Filed: 05/05/2015
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: GAURAV, Galib, PARISI, Sunil, K, Chaithra Mandanna, SCARIA, Nikhil, SUBRAMANIYAN, Kamalakannan, KRISHNAMURTHY, Divyashree
• Granted Patent: US 9,741,234 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0272 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect exact location of child or item using triangulation other than GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/005 Alarm destination chosen according to a hierarchy of available destinations, e.g. if hospital does not answer send to police station
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for broadcasting a panic alert notification in a communication network comprising a primary user and at least one secondary user. The method comprises the steps of receiving data relating to a panic alert and processing information and geo-location of the primary user. Further, a list of one or more secondary users to be notified of the primary user'"'"'s emergency situation is determined and a broadcast alert message is transmitted to the one or more secondary users. The step of determining a list of one or more secondary users comprises determining a search range criteria in the vicinity of the geo-location of primary user, identifying a list of secondary users within the search range criteria and determining one or more first level and second level secondary users by mapping the list of secondary users with a list of users known to the primary user.

Claims

1. A method for broadcasting alert messages in a communication network comprising a primary user and at least one secondary user, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving data relating to a panic alert initiated by the primary user in an emergency situation;

processing information relating to the primary user, the panic alert and the current geo-location of the primary user;

creating a list of one or more secondary users to be notified of the primary user'"'"'s emergency situation;

formatting and transmitting a broadcast alert message to the one or more secondary users;

characterized in that determining a list of one or more secondary users comprises;

determining a search range criteria in the vicinity of the geo-location of primary user;

identifying a list of secondary users within the search range criteria;

determining one or more first level secondary users by mapping the list of secondary users with a list of users known to the primary user; and

determining one or more second level secondary users by mapping the list of secondary users with individuals who have agreed to be notified with the broadcast alert message.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising registering the primary user or the one or more secondary user to utilize the services of panic alert notification system, wherein the registration of user includes providing one or more information relating to the user.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first level secondary user comprises at least one secondary user identified by the primary user as a first level contact during the registration process.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first level secondary user comprises the primary user'"'"'s phonebook contacts and/or social networking contacts.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second level secondary user comprises at least one secondary user registered with the panic alert notification system.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second level secondary user comprises at least one secondary user registered with a third party system and is reachable via the panic alert notification system.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

determining a third level of secondary users to be notified with the broadcast alert message wherein said at least one third level of secondary users comprises one of the police, emergency medical services, fire department, hospital or the like.

8. The method as claimed in any of the preceding claims, wherein the broadcast alert message is re-transmitting a plurality of times after a predetermined interval of time to at the least one first, second or third level secondary users.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein re-transmitting is preceded by the step of re-determining the number of secondary users in the vicinity of the geo location of the primary user.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the broadcast alert message comprises at least one of a short message service (SMS), a telephone call or interactive voice services.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the search range criteria is a predefined distance within the vicinity of the primary user.

12. A panic alert notification system (200) for transmitting a broadcast panic message from a primary user to at lease one secondary user in a communication network, said system comprising:

a processor for processing information related to the message and the users;

a memory fir storing information;

a database (204) for storing and accessing user and dynamic location related information;

a receiver module (201) receives and extracts data related to the panic alert message generated by a primary user (101);

a processing module (202) configured to determine the primary user'"'"'s information and current geo-location, determine the list of secondary users and generate a broadcast alert message to one or more secondary users;

characterized in that;

a dynamic location determination module (205) is coupled with the processing module (202.) and a secondary user determination module (206) to determine a list of secondary users to be notified with the broadcast alert message wherein the list of secondary users is determined based on a search range criteria within the vicinity of the primary user;

the secondary user determination module (206) is coupled with the processing module (202) and is configured to determine one or more first level secondary users by mapping the list of secondary users with users who are known to the primary user; and

is configured to determine one or more second level secondary users by mapping the list of secondary users with other individuals who have agreed to be notified with the broadcast alert message; and

a transmitting module (207) coupled with the processing module (202) to receive and transmit the broadcast alert message to the selected secondary users.

13. The system as claimed in claim 12, comprising a registration module (201) for registering the primary and secondary users to utilize the services of panic alert notification system.

14. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the first level secondary user comprises at least one secondary user identified by the primary user as a first level contact during the registration process.

15. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first level secondary user includes the primary user'"'"'s phonebook contacts and/or social networking contacts.

16. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the secondary user determination module (206) is configured to determine a third level of secondary users to be notified with the panic alert notification, said third level of secondary user comprising one of the police, emergency medical services, fire department, hospital or the like.

17. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the secondary user determination module (206) is further configured to re-determine one or more secondary users in the vicinity of the primary user based on predefined criteria.