PERSONAL PROTECTION SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20170186307A1
• Filed: 08/26/2014
• Published: 06/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Myung Hwan Kim
• Original Assignee: Myung Hwan Kim
• Inventors: KIM, Myung Hwan
• Granted Patent: US 9,892,625 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/12 Manually actuated calamity alarm transmitting arrangements emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm, activators, e.g. details of alarm push buttons mounted on an infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/28 Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253
• 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 relates to a personal protection service and method, comprise: a user terminal requesting a personal protection service by transmitting basic user information, a situation setting message, and etc., when an emergency arises; a personal protection service server connecting to the user terminal through a mobile communication network to provide an Individual Safety Guard service; and a terminal of an institution connected to the personal protection service server and a social safety network. When an emergency arises, a user who encounters danger presses an emergency button on a terminal to immediately request to the personal protection service server that the emergency be transmitted to the terminal of a guardian or an institute linked to the social safety network to respond within a short period of time, and the location of the user terminal requesting rescue is tracked so that safety personnel can be immediately dispatched to provide safety.

Claims

1. A personal protection service system, comprising:

a user terminal configured to request a personal protection service in case of an emergency situation by transmitting a user'"'"'s basic information, a situation setting message, a GPS location information of the user terminal, a time information, a dangerous situation information, and social safety network code;

a personal protection service server configured to provide the personal protection service accessed by the user terminal via a mobile communication network; and

an institution terminal linked to a social safety network by being linked to the personal protection service server,

wherein the user terminal comprises at least one of a smart mobile device, a compact portable device, or a wearable device.

2. The personal protection service system according to claim 1, comprising:

the user terminal configured to equip with application for the personal protection service,

and the application configured to operate with user'"'"'s picture registration function, additional guardian setting function, function of transmitting GPS location information and time information to the server in case of the emergency situation, function of recording voice and transmitting the recorded voice to the server in case of the emergency situation, function of transmitting the danger message to the server in case of the emergency situation, function of storing and transmitting video of the site or visual image of the site taken by snap shot to the server in case of the emergency situation, function of storing and transmitting user'"'"'s frequently-use route information, function of time input by route of the user, function of setting alarm for numbers of occurrence and time interval, function of setting a cycle of user location tracking, function of emergency report to the social safety network, function of confirming normal/abnormal code input, functions of social safety network code input and message transmission, timer function in case of non-response to the alarm occurrence, function of automatic recording in case of the alarm, map-linked service function regarding a GPS location information of the present terminal, function of designating by points during the map-linked service, function of storing message of occurrence of preceding, function of battery check and exclusive use of capacity of battery, function of checking remaining battery and forcefully closing other operating application, function of recommending optimization of application use in case of lack of remaining battery, and function of notifying the power-off due to battery burnt out and other situations,

wherein when an emergency button is pushed in case of emergency situation while the application of the user terminal operates, the user terminal provides a function of immediately reporting stored application information of the user, location, time information, and dangerous situation information to the social safety network, and a function of reporting to the guardian terminal when a guardian option is chosen.

3. The personal protection service system according to claim 1, comprising:

the personal protection service server configured to operate with function of management of actual user information, function occurring event, function of terminating the event, function of receiving the user information, guardian information, and danger message, function of storing user route information, time consumed following the route, forms of notification message, number of alarm occurrence, and time interval setting, function of storing cycle of user location track, function of setting and driving timer set by the user in advance, function of storing and transmitting of the recorded voice, function of receiving user'"'"'s danger message, function of receiving terminal'"'"'s GPS location information and time information in case of the emergency situation, function of tracking terminal'"'"'s GPS location which received the danger message, alarm function, function of storing and transmitting danger message/image/video, function of reporting emergency with the user information to the institute linked to the social safety network regarding the user'"'"'s situation when the user reports emergency, function of connected transmitting to the institution terminal of the social safety network when the alarm is not cleared, function of connected transmitting to the social safety network as the social safety network code is input, function of messaging a notification to guardian in case of dangerous situation, and function of transmitting situation to the guardian in occurrence of each event such as end of the dangerous situation.

4. The personal protection service system according to claim 1, comprising:

the user terminal configured to comprise

a control unit configured to control each function for the personal protection service;

an RF transceiver unit and an antenna unit connected to the control unit, the RF transceiver unit and the antenna unit being configure to modulate and demodulate video data, voice data, packet data, and transmit and receive to mobile communication network;

a GPS transceiver unit configured to receive location information of the user terminal;

a microphone configured to receive analogue voice signal;

an Analog to Digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the analogue voice signal received from the microphone to digital voice data;

an A/V codec configured to compress/decompress the video and image;

a Digital to Analog converter (DAC) configure to convert the decoded digital voice data to analogue voice signal;

a speaker configured to generate sound by amplifying the analogue voice signal provided from the DAC;

a memory unit configured to store driving programs and various data;

an input unit configured to receive key pad input;

a display unit configured to output data;

a USIM chip configured to store information of universal subscriber identification system of the communication agency and member information; and

a battery unit configured to drive power with battery equipped.

5. The personal protection service system according to claim 4,

wherein the user terminal further includes an analogue camera and an ADC, or a compact digital camera.

6. The personal protection service system according to claim 1,

wherein the the dangerous situation information to the personal protection service server includes at least one of the user'"'"'s voice recorded data, danger message transmitted by input of the user in case of emergency situation, visual image taken by the snap shot in case of emergency situation, or video taken at the site.

7. A personal protection service method, comprising:

registering personal information transmitted from an user terminal to a personal protection service server, optionally registering a guardian information who will be contacted in dangerous situation and actual user of the user terminal, and authenticating a user by a nominal owner of the user terminal when the user and the nominal owner are different;

setting a social safety network code and a normal unlock code used when an emergency situation transferred from the user terminal to the personal protection service server; and

receiving a personal protection service by receiving a GPS location information and time information, a dangerous situation information and the social safety network code from the user terminal, storing the related information of the requested users and events, transferring message to an institute linked to the social safety network, and to a guardian terminal as well when a guardian is registered, and executing scenario of personal protection by tracking the location of the requested user terminal.

8. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, further comprising:

registering a guardian whom one wants to reach from the user terminal to the server, storing set operating condition including a moving path, a number of occurrences of alarm and a time interval, in case of the dangerous situation; and

setting and storing a function of receiving one'"'"'s moving path setting and pattern information at equally the same time via a guardian register function which is an additional function, from the user terminal to the personal protection service server;

and wherein after the guardian is registered, operation message is transmitted to the guardian terminal whenever the user oneself operates a personal protection service application, and an alarm message is automatically transmitted to the guardian and the social safety network which has personal protection service server set when report is sent to the institute linked to the social safety network.

9. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, further comprising:

storing, by the personal protection service server, a normal code which unlock the application after recognizing the user, and a social safety network code which automatically linking to the social safety network via the personal protection service server in the dangerous situation, the codes being set from the user terminal,

and wherein a plurality of the social safety network codes is set, and digits and numbers of the social safety network codes are randomly set.

10. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, wherein the user terminal prevents changing basic information in application set by the user, changes data of the basic information by input the normal code,

and the personal protection service server sends message notifying the dangerous situation to the institute linked to the social safety network when the social safety network code is input from the user terminal in case of the dangerous situation.

11. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, wherein the setting the social safety network code and the normal unlock code comprises

storing the received normal unlock code in the personal protection service, or unlocking by receiving a social safety network contact code set by the user to the personal protection service server.

13. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, further comprising:

storing voice in real time by recording the voice in the user terminal in case of the dangerous situation, when the voice recording is set as the additional function, and

wherein when the recording function is chosen as the additional function of application of the user terminal, time unit for voice recording and delivery are set, the personal protection service server transmits the recorded voice to the social safety network as packet data based on the set time interval in case of dangerous situation.

14. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, further comprising:

storing a picture of the user while a function of the picture transferring is activated, immediately transmitting the picture to personal protection service server and the institute linked to the social safety network when reporting to the social safety network; and

storing, by the personal protection service server, by receiving snap shot, mug shot, automatic flash, voice included in video during operating the application after camera function is activated, transmitting the stored to the social safety network;

and wherein the social safety network is configured to inquired a status message, the picture of the user, the last location, route, input time of the user terminal perceiving the dangerous situation, from the personal protection service server, provide the personal protection service by obtaining the recording information, site picture and voice included in the video, the guardian information in real time when the additional option is chosen, provide analysis and statistics of the application status of use and history of various events under legal circumstances.

15. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, comprising:

initiating the location tracking of the user terminal in response to input the route of the user terminal;

wherein a departing point, destination point, and estimated arrival time is input, each route is respectively stored in the application of the user terminal, series of designated points and personal route time are input separately when linked with a map service, and in this case, the same route is stored as an event in the personal protection service server, synchronizing with the setting condition in the user terminals'"'"' application,

periodically detecting, by the personal protection service server, the location of the user terminal after the user terminal'"'"'s application is operated,

When the personal protection service server is registered operative event of application, the user terminal'"'"'s location is called upon periodically detecting the danger status, and unlocking the user terminal when there is no response to the call of the user terminal, transmits message notifying the danger to the institute of social safety network danger

and wherein map function is added to the user terminal'"'"'s application, synchronized with the server, tracking the moving route more precisely, and also the time setting input is possible.

16. The personal protection service method according to claim 7,

wherein when the timer set by the user terminal is operated, when the personal protection service server is set by the input of time related to the occurrence of the alarm besides the route and route time designated by the user terminal, the personal protection service server operates timer until the respective alarm set, and transmits the alarm to the user terminal following the method input in advance when the normal code is not received from the user after the occurrence of the alarm.

17. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, comprising:

automatically transmitting alarm from the personal protection service server as social safety network code is input when the first alarm occurs;

first alarm is occurred by the user terminal following the timer set in the personal protection service server, and when it does not match the conditions of route and time set by the user, or when normal unlock code is not input, it is unlocked as normal code is input in regular circumstances, and in irregular circumstances the danger message is immediately transferred to the social safety network (such as 112, 119) via personal protection service server by inputting the social safety network code. In this case, the message set by the user, guardian information, route information, user'"'"'s image information, and location information of the user'"'"'s terminal finally obtained when the alarm occurred is transmitted to the server, and the additional function of automatic recording data, spot video including recorded voice and spot pictures of the dangerous situation is also transmitted to the server, and the social safety network inquires the CCTV information DB around the spot.

18. The personal protection service method according to claim 17, comprising:

driving a predetermined timer, by the personal protection service server, by continuously providing alarm in a predetermined time interval until the last alarm, —

when there is no response to the first alarm, next alarm occurs in the user terminal, and unlock process should be done until the designated time—

;

automatically requesting for rescue or help to the social safety network when normal code is not input to the personal protection service server until the occurrence of the last alarm; and

step wherein when there is no response by the personal protection service server until the designated timer (time) after the last alarm, it is immediately linked to the social safety network (such as 112, 119), and in this case, message set by the user, and final information such as user location information, user image information, route information, guardian information, obtained when alarm occurred, and also additional function of automatic record data, video including recorded voice and spot picture is transmitted to the server together is transmitted;

wherein after the last alarm signal is received, CCTV intelligence network-linked program is operated which is able to inquire moving route of the user terminal requested in the dangerous situation and CCTV DB nearby the user terminal.

19. The personal protection service method according to claim 17, wherein the normal termination in the personal protection service server is unlocked by inputting the normal unlock code set by the user, and the personal protection service server automatically ends the event, automatically transmits normal-completion information to the guardian set as an additional function, and dangerous situation is finished.

20. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, wherein when the application of the personal protection service in the user terminal checks a capacity of the battery, a capacity of the consumed battery including the options of the user is predicted and secured, the battery is exclusively consumed as top priority excluding other applications and the secured battery capacity is not able to be used in other application, and notify the user when battery is low during the application is operating, it is recommended to optimize the use of application when the remaining capacity of the battery is low on behalf of the option of the application operation.

21. The personal protection service method according to claim 7, wherein the unlock code for malfunction is input to the personal protection service server when report is made by the malfunction of the user terminal, it is unlocked and terminated when the normal unlock code is input, and the user terminal shows as normal unlock while the social safety network process is continuously proceeded when abnormal unlock code is input.

12. (canceled)