System and method for emergency notification content delivery

• US 7,233,781 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2001
• Issued: 06/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Ochoa Optics LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hunter, Charles Eric, McNeil, Laurie, Hebrank, John H., Ballou, Bernard L. Jr., Fallon, James, Summer, Robert D.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DANH C
• Application Number:
  US09/990,450
• Publication Number:
  US 20030069002A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,036 Days
• Field of Search: 405/404.1, 405/404.2, 405/412.1, 405/414.1, 405/414.3, 405/556.2, 405/567, 405/418, 340/539.28, 340/539.1, 340/901, 340/905, 340/539, 340/531
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 19/00 Alarms responsive to two or more different undesired or abnormal conditions, e.g. burglary and fire, abnormal temperature and abnormal rate of flow
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/12 responsive to undesired emission of substances, e.g. pollution alarms
• 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 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/06 using electric transmission , e.g. involving audible and visible signalling through the use of sound and light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.

Claims

1. A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source, the method comprising:

delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party;

selecting automatically a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content;

delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users;

storing the emergency notification content at the device;

permitting a user from the subset of users of the device to request specific information from the emergency notification content;

permitting searching the stored emergency notification content for the requested specific information; and

displaying only the requested specific information to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing filtering instructions in the device for filtering out at least a portion of the emergency notification content for a particular user, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the remainder of the emergency notification content other than the portion filtered out to the particular user.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a GPS location of the device from the device directly or indirectly to the at least one transmitting party, wherein the delivering of the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party comprises directing the emergency notification content to only those users having a location within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving location data from a 911 emergency system, the location data identifying a geographic location of an emergency, wherein the delivering of the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party comprises directing the emergency notification content regarding the emergency to users in the geographic location.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the emergency notification content is delivered to only those users by cellular or plain old telephony who do not provide a acknowledgement of receiving the emergency notification content by other means.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the emergency notification content is delivered to only those users by cellular or plain old telephony who are within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

7. A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source, the method comprising:

delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party;

providing an emergency knowledge database of a set of users;

selecting automatically a subset of users from among the set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content;

directing the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users;

storing the emergency notification content at the device;

permitting a user from the subset of users of the device to request specific information from the emergency notification content;

permitting searching the stored emergency notification content for the requested specific information; and

displaying only the requested specific information to the user.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising providing filtering instructions in the device for filtering out at least a portion of the emergency notification content for a particular user, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the remainder of the emergency notification content other than the portion filtered out to the particular user.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising transmitting a GPS location of the device from the device directly or indirectly to the at least one transmitting party, wherein the delivering of the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party comprises directing the emergency notification content to only those users having a location within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising receiving location data from a 911 emergency system, the location data identifying a geographic location of an emergency, wherein the delivering of the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party comprises directing the emergency notification content regarding the emergency to users in the geographic location.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the emergency notification content is delivered to only those users by cellular or plain old telephony who do not provide a acknowledgement of receiving the emergency notification content by other means.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the emergency notification content is delivered to only those users by cellular or plain old telephony who are within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

13. A system for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source, the system comprising:

first transmission apparatus for delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party;

an apparatus for selecting automatically a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and

second transmission apparatus for delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users;

the device having a receiving apparatus for receiving the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party and a display operatively connected thereto for displaying the received emergency notification content, and wherein the device is configured to;

store the emergency notification content at the device;

permit the user of the device to request specific information from the emergency notification content;

search the stored emergency notification content for the requested specific information; and

display only the requested specific information to the user.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the device is located in a fixed location.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the device is located in a mobile location.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the device further comprises a GPS transmitter for transmitting a GPS location of the device from the device directly or indirectly to the at least one transmitting party, and wherein the emergency notification content is delivered to only those users having a location within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the device has filtering instructions for filtering out at least a portion of the emergency notification content for a particular user, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the remainder of the emergency notification content other than the portion filtered out to the particular user.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the device is configured to transmit a GPS location of the device from the device directly or indirectly to the at least one transmitting party, wherein the delivering of the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party comprises directing the emergency notification content to only those users having a location within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

19. A system for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source, the system comprising:

first transmission apparatus for delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party;

an emergency knowledge database of a set of users operatively connected to the at least one transmitting party;

an apparatus for selecting automatically a subset of users from among the set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and

second transmission apparatus for directing the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users;

the device having a receiving apparatus for receiving the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party and a display operatively connected thereto for displaying the received emergency notification content, and wherein the device is configured to;

store the emergency notification content at the device;

permit the user of the device to request specific information from the emergency notification content;

search the stored emergency notification content for the requested specific information; and

display only the requested specific information to the user.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the device is located in a fixed location.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the device is located in a mobile location.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the device has filtering instructions for filtering out at least a portion of the emergency notification content for a particular user, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the remainder of the emergency notification content other than the portion filtered out to the particular user.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the device is configured to transmit a GPS location of the device from the device directly or indirectly to the at least one transmitting party, wherein the delivering of the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party comprises directing the emergency notification content to only those users having a location within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.