Method of Transmitting an Emergency Audiovisual Alert to an Emergency Contact and Emergency Medical Services

• US 20160022227A1
• Filed: 07/20/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andrew Chen
• Original Assignee: Andrew Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US14/803,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20160022227A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/747 in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services allows a user who is experiencing a medical emergency to notify an emergency contact and/or emergency medical services. An emergency alert process is initiated via a plurality of failsafe triggers. Audiovisual data and location data from a user computing device are sent to an at least one recipient device of the emergency contact and emergency medical services. This allows emergency medical services to provide a more educated and potentially life-saving response. Audiovisual data and location data are captured through an audio-capture device, a video-capture device, and a geospatial positioning module. The plurality of failsafe triggers includes a haptic distress input, a vocal distress command, and a vital sign reading. As such, the emergency alert process may be initiated even if the user is unconscious or otherwise incapacitated.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services, the method comprises the steps of:

(A) providing a user computing device, wherein the user computing device comprises an audio-capture device, a video-capture device, and a geospatial positioning module;

(B) providing an at least one recipient computing device and a cloud storage server;

(C) initiating an emergency alert process, if at least one of a plurality of failsafe triggers prompts to activate the emergency alert process, wherein the emergency alert process includes steps (D) through (I);

(D) wirelessly sending an emergency notification from the user computing device to the at least one recipient computing device;

(E) capturing audiovisual data by activating the audio-capture device and the video-capture device;

(F) capturing location data of the user computing device through the geospatial positioning module;

(G) continuously sending the audiovisual data and the location data from the user computing device to the at least one recipient computing device;

(H) displaying the audiovisual data and the location data on the at least one recipient computing device; and

(I) saving the audiovisual data and the location data to the cloud storage server.

2. The method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services, the method as claimed in claim 1 comprises the steps of:

receiving a haptic distress input through the user computing device, wherein the haptic distress input is one of the plurality of failsafe triggers.

3. The method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services, the method as claimed in claim 1 comprises the steps of:

providing a microphone for the user computing device;

prompting to record a vocal distress command through the user computing device;

recording the vocal distress command through the microphone;

receiving a vocal input through the microphone; and

comparing the vocal input to the vocal distress command in order to recognize the vocal input as the vocal distress command, wherein the vocal input is one of the plurality of failsafe triggers.

4. The method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services, the method as claimed in claim 1 comprises the steps of:

providing a vital sign monitoring device, wherein the vital sign monitoring device is communicatively coupled to the user computing device;

providing a life-threatening vital sign maximum threshold, wherein a possible life-threatening situation is indicated by a vital sign reading higher than the life-threatening vital sign maximum threshold;

periodically receiving the vital sign reading through the vital sign monitoring device;

recognizing the vital sign reading as one of the plurality of failsafe triggers,

if the vital sign reading is higher than the life-threatening vital sign maximum threshold; and

saving the vital sign reading with the location data and the audiovisual data onto the cloud storage server.

5. The method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services, the method as claimed in claim 1 comprises the steps of:

providing a vital sign monitoring device, wherein the vital sign monitoring device is communicatively coupled to the user computing device;

providing a life-threatening vital sign minimum threshold, wherein a possible life-threatening situation is indicated by a vital sign reading lower than the life-threatening vital sign minimum threshold;

periodically receiving the vital sign reading through the vital sign monitoring device;

recognizing the vital sign reading as one of the plurality of failsafe triggers,

if the vital sign reading is lower than the life-threatening vital sign minimum threshold; and

saving the vital sign reading with the location data and the audiovisual data onto the cloud storage server.

6. The method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services, the method as claimed in claim 1 comprises the steps of:

prompting to input emergency contact information through the user computing device;

receiving the emergency contact information through the user computing device; and

associating the emergency contact information with the at least one recipient computing device.

7. The method of transmitting an emergency audiovisual alert to an emergency contact and emergency medical services, the method as claimed in claim 1 comprises the steps of:

prompting to input user personal information through the user computing device, wherein the user personal information includes name, age, and medical history;

receiving the user personal information through the user computing device; and

sending the user personal information with the location data and the audiovisual data during step (G).