Emergency calling system
First Claim
1. An emergency calling system comprising:
- a vehicle station having a communications device;
a Mayday center for communicating with the vehicle station and for generating an emergency report on the vehicle station, wherein the vehicle station initiates an emergency call and provides the Mayday center with information regarding an emergency situation and the Mayday center, responsive to the information, generates an emergency report on the vehicle station and provides the emergency report to a plurality of emergency contacts according to a prioritized order based on the location of the vehicle station.
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Abstract
A Mayday contact address database (20) is connected to a navigation control (10). The Mayday contact address database (20) stores emergency contacts which shall be given an emergency report in what priority according to factors such expressway, ordinary road, human involved accident or damage only accident. Therefore, emergency reports can be made in an appropriate order according to the Mayday contact database (20). Transmission methods can be determined according to stored data. By transmitting a Mayday standby call from a two-way communications device (22) to a Mayday center (24), the Mayday center (24) presumes the occurrence of an emergency if no reset call has been received within a predetermined time.
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26 Claims
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1. An emergency calling system comprising:
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a vehicle station having a communications device; a Mayday center for communicating with the vehicle station and for generating an emergency report on the vehicle station, wherein the vehicle station initiates an emergency call and provides the Mayday center with information regarding an emergency situation and the Mayday center, responsive to the information, generates an emergency report on the vehicle station and provides the emergency report to a plurality of emergency contacts according to a prioritized order based on the location of the vehicle station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An emergency calling system comprising:
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a vehicle station having a communications device; a Mayday center for communicating with the vehicle station and for generating an emergency report on the vehicle station, wherein the vehicle station initiates an emergency call and provides the Mayday center with information regarding an emergency situation and the Mayday center, responsive to the information, generates an emergency report on the vehicle station and transmits the emergency report to a plurality of emergency contacts using one or more transmission methods based on the respective emergency contacts. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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10. An emergency calling system comprising:
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a vehicle station capable of detecting information regarding its own location and transmitting the location information; a Mayday center capable of obtaining the location information from the vehicle station, wherein the vehicle station transmits a Mayday standby call containing an expected Mayday reset call transmission time and the Mayday center presumes that the vehicle station is experiencing an emergency situation when the Mayday reset call is not received within the expected transmission time. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. An emergency reporting device for a vehicle, comprising:
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an emergency detecting device for detecting an occurrence of a vehicle emergency; a vehicle location detecting device for detecting the location of the vehicle; a communication device for transmitting an emergency call to a Mayday center to provide information regarding the location of the vehicle when the emergency occurs, the Mayday center generating an emergency report responsive the location information; and a table containing a plurality of emergency contact addresses to which the emergency report is transmitted when the emergency occurs, the table including data on the order of priority of the plurality of emergency contacts based on the location of the vehicle, wherein the emergency call transmitted by the communications device includes data on the order of priority of the emergency contacts. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. An emergency reporting device for a vehicle, comprising:
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an emergency detecting device for detecting an occurrence of a vehicle emergency; a vehicle location detecting device for detecting the location of the vehicle; a communication device for transmitting an emergency call to a Mayday center to provide information regarding the location of the vehicle when the emergency occurs, the Mayday center generating an emergency report responsive the location information; and a table containing a plurality of emergency contact addresses to which the emergency report is transmitted when the emergency occurs, the table including data on transmission methods of the plurality of emergency contacts, wherein the transmission of the emergency call transmitted by the communications device includes data on the transmission methods of the respective emergency contacts. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. An emergency reporting device for a vehicle, comprising:
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a vehicle location detecting device for detecting the location of the vehicle; and a communication device for communicating with a Mayday center, wherein the communications device transmits a Mayday standby call to the Mayday center, the Mayday standby call containing an expected Mayday reset call transmission time based on a running route of the vehicle and the detected location of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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22. A Mayday center for communicating with a vehicle station having a communications device, for dealing with an emergency call from the vehicle station, and for generating an emergency report said Mayday center comprising:
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transmitting the emergency report to a plurality of emergency contacts based on the emergency call from the vehicle station; and determining an order of priority of the plurality of emergency contacts based on a location of the vehicle station. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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24. A Mayday center for communicating with a vehicle station having a communications device, for dealing with an emergency call from the vehicle station, and for generating an emergency report, said Mayday center comprising:
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transmitting the emergency report to a plurality of emergency contacts based on the emergency call from the vehicle station; and determining a method for transmitting the emergency report to addresses of the plurality of emergency contact based on the emergency contacts. - View Dependent Claims (25)
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26. A Mayday center for communicating with a vehicle station having a communications device, for dealing with an emergency call from the vehicle station, and for generating an emergency report, said Mayday center comprising:
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receiving from the vehicle station, a Mayday standby call containing an expected Mayday reset call time of transmission; and presuming an occurrence of vehicle station emergency if a Mayday reset call is not received within the expected Mayday reset call transmission time.
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Specification