AUTOMATED DETECTION OF AN EMERGENCY BY A USER DEVICE

• US 20170124835A1
• Filed: 10/30/2015
• Published: 05/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: GANESAN, Rajasundaram, MOHAN, Prabhu V., SENTHIL, Vijay A., SURIANARAYANAN, Vinodkrishnan, BOYINA, SriKamal X., VEERAIYAN, Vijaykanth
• Granted Patent: US 9,685,064 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0461 integrated or attached to an item closely associated with the person but not worn by the person, e.g. chair, walking stick, bed sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72421 with automatic activation of emergency service functions, e.g. upon sensing an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A user device may determine that an environmental parameter, sensed by the user device, satisfies a condition, and may detect an emergency based on detecting that the environmental parameter satisfies the condition. The user device may output, via the user device, an alarm notification, and may determine whether an input is received by the user device to cancel the alarm notification. The user device may notify an emergency device when the user device determines that input is not received by the user device to cancel the alarm notification.

Claims

1. A user device, comprising:

one or more processors to;

determine that an environmental parameter, sensed by the user device, satisfies a condition

the environmental parameter including a health metric of a user of the user device

the health metric being sensed by the user device;

detect an emergency based on determining that the environmental parameter satisfies the condition;

output, via the user device, an alarm notification based on detecting the emergency;

determine whether an input is received by the user device to cancel the alarm notification; and

selectively notify another device, different from the user device, of the emergency based on determining whether the input is received by the user device,

the user device notifying the other device of the emergency and transmitting the health metric to the other device when the user device determines that the input is not received by the user device to cancel the alarm notification, and

the user device not notifying the other device of the emergency when the user device determines that the input is received to cancel the alarm notification.

2. The user device of claim 1, where the one or more processors, when outputting the alarm notification, are to:

output the alarm notification for a threshold amount of time, and

where the one or more processors, when determining whether the input is received to cancel the alarm notification, are to;

determine whether the input is received within the threshold amount of time.

3. The user device of claim 1, where the environmental parameter represents an acceleration or a velocity of the user device.

4. The user device of claim 1, where the one or more processors, when determining whether the input is received to cancel the alarm notification, are to:

detect a user interaction with the user device; and

where the one or more processors, when selectively notifying the other device of the emergency, are to;

prevent the user device from notifying the other device of the emergency based on detecting the user interaction with the user device.

5. The user device of claim 1, where the one or more processors are further to:

determine a geographic location of the user device; and

where the one or more processors, when selectively notifying the other device of the emergency, are to;

identify the other device based on a proximity of the other device to the geographic location of the user device.

6. The user device of claim 1, where the one or more processors, when selectively notifying the other device of the emergency, are to:

select the other device based on a type of the emergency.

22. The user device of claim 1, where the health metric is at least one of:

heart rate, blood pressure, PATENT U.S. Patent Application No. 14/927,839 Attorney Docket No. 20150759 body temperature, a chemical level, or an activity level.

7. (canceled)

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user device, cause the one or more processors to;

determine that an environmental parameter, detected by a sensor of the user device, satisfies a condition

the environmental parameter including a health metric of a user of the user device

the health metric being sensed by the user device;

detect an emergency based on determining that the environmental parameter satisfies the condition;

output an alarm notification via the user device based on detecting the emergency;

determine whether an input is received by the user device to cancel the alarm notification; and

selectively notify another device, different from the user device, of the emergency based on determining whether the input is received by the user device

the user device notifying the other device of the emergency and transmitting the health metric to the other device when the user device determines that the input is not received by the user device to cancel the alarm notification, and

the user device not notifying the other device of the emergency when the user device determines that the input is received to cancel the alarm notification.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to output the alarm notification, cause the one or more processors to:

output the alarm notification for a threshold amount of time; and

where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine whether the input is received, cause the one or more processors to;

determine whether the input is received within the threshold amount of time.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine that the environmental parameter satisfies the condition, cause the one or more processors to:

measure a temperature using the sensor; and

determine that the temperature satisfies a threshold.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine whether the input is received, cause the one or more processors to:

detect a movement of the user device; and

where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to selectively notify the other device of the emergency, cause the one or more processors to;

prevent the user device from notifying the other device based on detecting the movement of the user device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine whether the input is received, cause the one or more processors to:

detect a voice of the user of the user device; and

where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to selectively notify the other device of the emergency, cause the one or more processors to;

prevent the user device from notifying the other device based on detecting the voice of the user.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine whether the input is received, cause the one or more processors to:

detect a voice of the user of the user device; and

where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to selectively notify the other device of the emergency, cause the one or more processors to;

notify the other device of the emergency based on detecting the voice of the user.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine that the environmental parameter satisfies the condition, cause the one or more processors to:

determine that the environmental parameter no longer satisfies the condition; and

where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to selectively notify the other device of the emergency, cause the one or more processors to;

prevent the user device from notifying the other device based on determining that the environmental parameter no longer satisfies the condition.

15. A method, comprising:

determining, using a sensor of a first device, that an environmental parameter satisfies a condition

the environmental parameter including a health metric of a user of the first device,

the health metric being sensed by the first device;

detecting, by the first device, an emergency based on determining that the environmental parameter satisfies the condition;

outputting, by the first device, an alarm notification based on detecting the emergency;

determining, by the first device, whether an input is received to cancel the alarm notification; and

selectively notifying, by the first device a second device different from the first device, of the emergency based on determining whether the input is received by the first device

the first device notifying the second device of the emergency and transmitting the health metric to the second device when the first device determines that the input is not received by the first device to cancel the alarm notification, and

the first device not notifying the second device of the emergency when the first device determines that the input is received to cancel the alarm notification.

16. The method of claim 15, where the environmental parameter represents an acceleration or velocity of the first device, and the condition indicates that the acceleration or the velocity satisfies a threshold. PATENT U.S. Patent Application No. 14/927,839 Attorney Docket No. 20150759

17. The method of claim 15, where a telephone number of the second device is stored by the first device and used by the first device to provide the notification of the emergency.

18. The method of claim 15, where the alarm notification includes information provided via a user interface of the first device.

19. The method of claim 15, where notifying the second device of the emergency further comprises:

notifying the second device of a geographic location of the first device.

21. The method of claim 15, where the health metric is at least one of:

heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, a chemical level, or an activity level.

20. (canceled)