SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRANSMITTING EMERGENCY SIGNAL USING SMART PHONE, AND METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20170064529A1
• Filed: 02/12/2015
• Published: 03/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyo-Sik Hong, Se-Yong Lee, TW Mobile Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Kyo-Sik Hong, Se-Yong Lee, TW Mobile Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hong, Kyo-sik, Lee, Se-yong
• Application Number:
  US15/119,712
• Publication Number:
  US 20170064529A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

The present invention provides an urgent signal transmission system using a smart phone. A user previously registers a specific voice in a smart phone having a voice recognition function. If an input of the previously registered voice capable of determining that an urgent situation occurs is recognized, or if it is determined that the user is in an urgent situation by an application through shaking of the smart phone sensed by a moving sensor or any key operation, urgent signal generation location information and a help request signal are transmitted to a smart phone of an acquaintance who is located within a predetermined radius from a location of the smart phone as a reference point and is closest to the user or a smart phone of a third party who is a specific SNS member to which the user is subscribed and is located near the user.

Claims

1-24. -24. (canceled)

25. A system of automatically transmitting an urgent signal using a smart phone, comprising:

an urgent signal transmitting smart phone which has an urgent signal generation application installed therein configured to transmit identification information on acquaintances to an urgent signal processing server in an order of high priority when an urgent situation occurs, in a state in which acquaintances classified into a plurality of groups are stored by setting priority, receive location information on each acquaintance from the urgent signal processing server to determine whether the acquaintances are within a predetermined radius, and transmit a previously registered urgent help request data to an urgent signal receiving smart phone of the corresponding acquaintance;

the urgent signal processing server configured to receive the location information from the urgent signal receiving smart phone and update the received location information, and when receiving a specific telephone number from the urgent signal transmitting smart phone, transmit location information corresponding to the telephone number to the urgent signal transmitting smart phone; and

the urgent signal receiving smart phone configured to receive urgent help request data including location information of a user from the urgent signal transmitting smart phone and output the received urgent help request data.

26. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal transmitting smart phone transmits the urgent help request data to the urgent signal receiving smart phone of an unspecific third party located within the predetermined radius from a reference point in which the user is located without classifying the group.

27. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent help request data includes:

text information notifying a help request;

picture information of allowing a third party to recognize a user requesting help; and

location information for allowing the third party to recognize the location of the user requesting help.

28. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal generation application determines that the user is in the urgent situation, when the same voice data as a previously registered voice data is input, when a moving sensor installed in the smart phone receives an input signal over a predetermined frequency, when an application icon is operated on a screen, or when any external key is operated over the predetermined frequency.

29. The system according to claim 25, wherein the group is selected and set by the user from a personal telephone directory group stored in the urgent signal transmitting smart phone, an option relevant person group among specific SNS subscribers, a specific SNS subscriber group, an option relevant person group among unspecific third parties within the predetermined radius, and an unspecific third party group within the predetermined radius.

30. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal generation application operates in conjunction with an SNS application to automatically input urgent help request characters to an input window.

31. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal processing server transmits the urgent help request data to the urgent signal receiving smart phone within the predetermined radius by the request of the urgent signal transmitting smart phone.

32. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal generation application receives the location information by a predetermined time period in conjunction with a GPS module installed in the smart phone.

33. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal transmitting smart phone comprises:

a communication module configured to perform communication with an external device;

a signal input unit configured to receive a signal to operate an application for generating an urgent help request signal;

a GPS module configured to receive the location information of the user from a GPS satellite;

a help request information setting unit configured to set information in advance to perform automatic transmission when the urgent situation occurs;

an information transmission unit configured to transmit the help request information set in the help request information setting unit with a specific telephone number; and

a control unit configured to receive a signal from the signal input unit to determine whether the urgent situation occurs, and transmit the help request information previously registered to the user within the predetermined radius when the urgent situation occurs, along with current location information.

34. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal transmitting smart phone further comprises:

an urgent signal transmitting target setting unit configured to set the urgent signal transmitting target, wherein the urgent signal transmitting target setting unit 46 sets priority for generating the help request with being classified by group.

35. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal transmitting smart phone further comprises:

a data storing unit configured to store an urgent signal transmitting target by group.

36. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal transmitting smart phone further comprises:

a location calculation unit configured to receive location information of a target which transmits an urgent help request signal to determine whether the user is within the predetermined radius; and

a help request signal transmission target determination unit configured to determine a final urgent help request signal transmitting target.

37. The system according to claim 25, wherein the urgent signal transmitting smart phone further comprises:

an automatic character input unit configured to automatically input characters to an input window of an SNS application in conjunction with the SNS application.

38. The system according to claim 29, wherein an option of the option relevant person is an option by occupation, sex, and age.

39. The system according to claim 33, wherein the signal input unit comprises:

a voice recognition module configured to compare a previously registered voice with an input voice to determine whether the previously registered voice matches with the input voice;

a moving sensor configured to sense shaking of the smart phone over a predetermined frequency and a predetermined strength; and

an application driving key configured to be output on a screen of the smart phone with being clickable.

40. A method of automatically transmitting an urgent signal using a smart phone, comprising:

a) receiving, by an urgent signal processing server, each location information from a plurality of urgent signal receiving smart phones, and registering the received location information;

b) receiving, by an urgent signal generation application installed in an urgent signal transmitting smart phone, a signal of a user to determine whether the signal is the urgent signal;

c) transmitting, by the urgent signal generation application, urgent help request information including current location information to the urgent signal processing server, when the signal of the user is the urgent signal; and

d) transmitting, by the urgent signal processing server, urgent help request information of a user to the urgent signal receiving smart phone located within a predetermined radius.

41. The method according to claim 40, further comprising:

before the step a), receiving and setting, by the urgent signal generation application, predetermined radius information of the user.

42. The method according to claim 40, wherein the steps c) and d) are replaced by:

e) transmitting, by the urgent signal generation application, urgent help request information including current location information and identification information on each user belonging to a specific group to the urgent signal processing server;

f) receiving, by the urgent signal generation application, location information of a user matching with each identification information on a group from the urgent signal processing server;

g) extracting, by the urgent signal generation application, identification information present within the predetermined radius; and

h) transmitting, by the urgent signal generation application, an urgent help request signal as the identification information present within the predetermined radius.

43. The method according to claim 42, wherein the identification information is a telephone number or an SNS ID.

44. The method according to claim 42, further comprising:

before the step e), receiving and registering, by the urgent signal generation application, groups having a plurality of classified identification information; and

receiving and registering, by the urgent signal generation application, priorities for each group.

45. The method according to claim 42, wherein the step g) further comprises:

requesting, by the urgent signal generation application, location information of identification information on a second ranking group to the urgent signal processing server, when identification information on a specific group is not present within the predetermined radius.

46. The method according to claim 40, wherein the steps c) and d) are replaced by:

driving, by the urgent signal generation application, an SNS application; and

transmitting, by the urgent signal generation application, an urgent help request signal to an input window of the SNS application.

47. The method according to claim 42, wherein the step g) includes calculating locations of each user belonging to the group based on a current location of the user as a reference point to determine whether the user is within the predetermined radius.

48. The method according to claim 42, where in the step f), the location information of the user matching with each of the identification information is not exposed to a screen.