REAL-TIME, CROWD-SOURCED, GEO-LOCATION BASED SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING PERSONAL SAFETY
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Abstract
The disclosure describes a crowd-sourced, social network and geo-location based system for enhancing personal safety via users'"'"' mobile devices. The system shares information (including images, video, and/or audio) about crimes, fires, accidents and public safety-related events and their geo-locations. Users selectively receive notifications for such events in a map view based on the events'"'"' proximity to users or on whether the notification was initiated by a person in the users'"'"' social network. The system also shares users'"'"' status and geo-location information with previously identified persons or with all persons in their social network to let them know their geo-location and/or when they have reached a destination. Through the system'"'"'s operation, a user can cause sending of a distress signal to pre-identified persons, groups within their social network, or others who are within a pre-established distance. Additionally, the system can send a distress signal if the user fails to check in.
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41 Claims
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1-20. -20. (canceled)
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21. A method for enhancing personal safety, the method comprising the steps of:
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collecting data representative of the level of personal safety at a plurality of geographical locations; associating the data representative of the level of personal safety at each geographical location with geographical coordinate data uniquely identifying the geographical location; receiving first input corresponding to a starting location of a route to be traveled by a person; receiving second input corresponding to an ending location of the route to be traveled by the person; and determining a safest route for travel by the person between the starting location and ending location based at least in part on the collected data and associated geographical coordinate data. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method for searching a geographical area for a missing person or article, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving information defining a plurality of geographical sub-areas of a geographical area to be searched for the presence of a missing person or article; assigning a person having a mobile device to search a particular geographical sub-area; continually determining the geographical location of the mobile device relative to the particular geographical sub-area; and displaying on the mobile device a map of the particular geographical sub-area and a marker on the map corresponding to the then current geographical location of the mobile device relative to the particular geographical sub-area. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41-56. -56. (canceled)
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