NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCIES BASED ON WIRELESS SIGNAL RECOGNITION
First Claim
1. A method comprising processing an emergency communication, wherein processing said emergency communication comprises receiving said emergency communication, receiving information indicative of a location of an emergency, providing said received information to a configurable rule set, using said configurable rule set, generating a recipient list that identifies at least one recipient of a notification message based on said received emergency communication, and distributing said notification message to at least one recipient from said recipient list, wherein receiving information indicative of a location of an emergency comprises receiving information indicative of a device that was used to convey said emergency communication.
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Abstract
A method includes distributing one or more notifications of an emergency call being placed from a mobile device to emergency responders. The distribution of such notifications is based on a configurable rule set.
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33 Claims
- 1. A method comprising processing an emergency communication, wherein processing said emergency communication comprises receiving said emergency communication, receiving information indicative of a location of an emergency, providing said received information to a configurable rule set, using said configurable rule set, generating a recipient list that identifies at least one recipient of a notification message based on said received emergency communication, and distributing said notification message to at least one recipient from said recipient list, wherein receiving information indicative of a location of an emergency comprises receiving information indicative of a device that was used to convey said emergency communication.
- 30. An apparatus for processing emergency communications, said apparatus comprising a processing system and memory in data communication with said processing system, wherein said processing system is configured to receive information indicative of a location of an emergency, wherein said information indicative of a location of an emergency comprises information concerning a device that was used to convey an emergency communication, wherein said processing system further comprises a machine-readable medium having encoded thereon data representative of a configurable rule set, wherein said configurable rule set comprises rules that cause said processing system to generate a recipient list based at least in part on said received information concerning a device, wherein said recipient list identifies at least one recipient of a notification message, and wherein said processing system is further configured to distribute said notification message to said at least one recipient.
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33. A manufacture comprising a tangible and non-transitory computer-readable medium having encoded thereon instructions that, when executed by a digital computer processing system, cause said digital computer processing system to extract information from a received emergency communication, to execute at least one rule from a configurable rule set having rules that cause said processing system to generate a recipient list that identifies at least one recipient of a notification message, and to distribute said notification message to said at least one recipient.
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