METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PUBLIC SAFETY IN AT LEAST ONE OF UNKNOWN, UNEXPECTED, UNWANTED AND UNTIMELY SITUATIONS VIA OFFERING INDEMNITY IN CONJUNCTION WITH WEARABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES

• US 20160330601A1
• Filed: 01/14/2016
• Published: 11/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vikas Srivastava
• Original Assignee: Vikas Srivastava
• Inventors: SRIVASTAVA, VIKAS
• Application Number:
  US14/995,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20160330601A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/80 UAVs characterised by their small size, e.g. micro air vehicles [MAV]
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/00 UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/20 for use as communications relays, e.g. high-altitude platforms
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/30 for imaging, photography or videography
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/64 for parcel delivery or retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2201/10 autonomous, i.e. by navigating independently from ground or air stations, e.g. by using inertial navigation systems [INS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• 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]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose design, deployment and implementation of systems capable of facilitating managing public safety (or security) in one or more situations, and methods thereof, in accordance with the principles of the present invention. Specifically, the systems may facilitate managing public safety (or security) in one or more situations of at least one of danger, untoward incident, accident, emergency, loss and death with one or more enhanced qualitative and quantitative features, such as minimal vulnerability, real-time notification ability and automatic evidence manageability, thereby facilitating timely prevention, Quick Response (QR) or (Just-In-Time or JIT) response, speedy trial, effective prosecution, easy enforceability and policing, and methods thereof in accordance with the principles of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method for design and implementation of an integrated comprehensive public safety and emergency communication system involving use of at least one of portable and wearable computing and communications devices and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), comprising:

customizing the design of the at least one of portable and wearable computing and communications devices and proprietary application software thereof, thereby rendering the devices at least one of tamper-proof, tamper-resistant, tamper-evident and operable in at least one of one or more low power, encrypted access, encrypted operating and encrypted communication modes;

customizing the implementation of the at least one of custom-designed portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary application software thereof, thereby rendering the same failover capable, fault-tolerant, fail-safe and operable in at least one of real-time and near real-time;

configuring the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof for use in at least one of unknown, unexpected, unwanted and untimely situations;

at least one of automatically and partially manually capturing at least one of textual data, still images, video, audio and a combination thereof in at least one of unknown, unexpected, unwanted and untimely situations as evidence using the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices, thereby facilitating timely management of the aforementioned situations;

at least one of automatically and partially manually, simultaneously storing the captured data for processing and later use plus transmitting the captured data in at least one of real-time and near real-time, using at least one of one or more available wireless networks based on one or more wireless video and data distribution techniques, to at least one of primary recipients, emergency contacts and a combination thereof;

upon failure to receive at least one of proof of delivery, read, approval receipt and a combination thereof from the primary recipients, at least one of automatically and partially manually forwarding the captured data to one or more peers of the primary recipients;

upon failure to receive at least one of proof of delivery, read, approval receipt and a combination thereof from the peers of the primary recipients, at least one of automatically and partially manually forwarding the captured data to one or more supervisors of the primary recipients and peers thereof; and

upon receipt of at least one of proof of delivery, read, approval receipt and a combination thereof from at least one high-level strategic decision making public authority managing the at least one of law enforcing, policing, fire and other emergency disaster management authorities, at least one of automatically and autonomously flying the UAVs to the detected locations in connection with at least one of unknown, unexpected, unwanted and untimely situations.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of configuring the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof for use in at least one of unknown, unexpected, unwanted and untimely situations further comprises:

at least one of automatically and manually identifying and selecting one or more safe locations so as to populate a list of safe locations,

at least one of automatically and manually identifying and selecting one or more trusted group members so as to populate a list of trusted members, and

at least one of automatically and manually identifying and selecting one or more safe time slots in given time periods to traverse the identified and selected list of safe locations.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the automatic identification and selection of the list of safe locations is based on recommendations provided by the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof in connection with one or more locations previously traversed by users.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the automatic identification and selection of the list of trusted members is based on recommendations provided by the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof in connection with one or more trusted members from whom the users received timely help in the past.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of one or more low power modes may be at least one of in at least one of sleep, hibernation, hybrid sleep, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) power modes and deep sleep mode.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof may be designed to at least one of be implemented in, automatically select from and implement, selectively implement from, one or more user-defined explicit operation modes based on at least one of selective activation, deactivation and a combination thereof of one or more add-on components thereof.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more add-on components may be at least one of an imaging device, a GPS sensor (receiver), GSM unit, one or more sensors, one or more auxiliary wireless communication units and one or more auxiliary positioning units.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the one or more user-defined explicit operation modes based on at least one of selective activation, deactivation and a combination thereof of one or more add-on components thereof may be at least one of mapped onto and correspond to one or more potential real-time use case scenarios in connection with the at least one of unknown, unexpected, unwanted and untimely situations.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof may be designed to at least one of be implemented in, automatically select from and implement, selectively implement from, one or more user-defined explicit operation modes based on selective failover to one or more standby wireless networks upon at least one of network failure, unavailability and timeout.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof may facilitate at least one of people detection by tracking and people tracking by detection.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof may facilitate complex event processing.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices and the proprietary mobile application software thereof are capable of operating in a training and learning mode.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of portable and wearable computing and communications devices are Plug and Play (PnP) devices.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of at least one of custom-designed and implemented portable and wearable computing and communications devices are at least one of wiredly and wirelessly chargeable.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the proprietary application software is a proprietary client-server Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based Public Safety-As-A-Service (SOAPSAAS) application (app), and wherein the principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology, thereby rendering the SOA at least one of vendor, product, technology agnostic and a combination thereof.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the integrated comprehensive public safety and emergency communication system facilitates managing public safety in at least one of unknown, unexpected, unwanted and untimely situations via offering indemnity in conjunction with wearable computing and communications devices.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the proprietary client-server SOAPSAAS app installed and running on each of the at least one of portable and wearable computing and communications devices facilitates capturing at least one of a past and current overall context of travel of the users, and family, friends, colleagues, contacts thereof, analyzing the captured at least one of the past and current overall context of travel of the users, and family, friends, colleagues, contacts thereof, profiling the users, and family, friends, colleagues, contacts thereof based on the analyses, categorizing the users, and family, friends, colleagues, contacts thereof based on the profiling, recommending safety and security measures as well as one or more insurance products, solutions and services.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the one or more insurance products, solutions and services comprise at least one of Usage-Based Insurance (UBI), Pay As You Drive (PAYD), Pay How You Drive (PHYD), mile-based auto insurance and Behavior-based insurance.