Safety information transmission device

• US 7,987,277 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2008
• Issued: 07/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Endo, Tomotaka, Takeda, Kazumasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Avellino; Joseph E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel; Chirag
• Application Number:
  US12/232,153
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037547A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,048 Days
• Field of Search: 709/237, 709201-202, 709/206, 709/218, 709/229, 713/186, 726 2- 4, 726 17- 21, 455/404.1, 715808-813
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/00 Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/005 with transmission via computer network

Abstract

A safety information transmission device includes a reception unit that receives, via a network, safety information indicating whether or not a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful, and a control unit that determines, when a contact method is a contact by an electronic message and a contact destination address is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information to the electronic message address.

Claims

1. A safety information transmission device, comprising:

a reception unit that receives, via a network, safety information indicating whether a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal when biometric authentication of the user is successful;

a storage unit that retains user information containing a contact method of the safety information with respect to a contact destination specified by the user, the contact destination corresponding to the contact method, and contact restriction information selectively indicating validity of the contact destination only by in-person authentication and the validity of the contact destination by both the in-person authentication and substitute authentication;

a control unit that determines, when the contact method in the user information is a contact by an electronic message and the contact destination in the user information is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information being received to the electronic message address; and

a transmission unit that transmits the electronic message to the electronic message address in accordance with the determination of the control unit;

wherein the reception unit receives, via the network, the safety information that is input by a substitute person different from the user, the safety information being received by the information processing terminal with an alternative operation to the biometric authentication being set as a condition of the in-person authentication, the alternative operation being for the substitute authentication; and

the control unit determines, when the safety information being input by the substitute person is received, whether to communicate the safety information to the electronic message address as the contact destination specified by the user, according to the contact restriction information in the user information that indicates the validity of the contact destination by the substitute authentication.

2. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the safety information received by an automated transaction device that serves as the information processing terminal.

3. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives the safety information received by a personal information processing terminal of the user as the information processing terminal via a screen information providing device that provides screen information for allowing the user to input the safety information to the personal information processing terminal.

4. The safety information transmission device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit instructs, at a time of occurrence of a disaster, the transmission unit to transmit a shift instruction that orders the automated transaction device located in a disaster-stricken area to shift to a state where an input of the safety information can be received.

5. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the safety information contains location information of the information processing terminal.

6. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the safety information contains information indicating whether the user is injured.

7. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the safety information contains information indicating whether there is an injured/sick person around the user.

8. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, when the safety information indicates that the user is injured, to communicate the safety information to another contact destination different from the contact destination specified by the user.

9. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, when the safety information indicates that there is an injured/sick person around the user, to communicate the safety information to another contact destination different from the contact destination specified by the user.

10. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit determines, when the safety information being input by the substitute person is received, to communicate the safety information to another contact destination different from the contact destination specified by the user.

11. The safety information transmission device according to claim 1, the control unit monitors whether the information processing terminal is disconnected from the network, and determines, when the information processing terminal disconnected from the network is detected, to communicate location information of the information processing terminal to a predetermined contact destination.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium recorded with a program which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute processing of:

receiving, via a network, safety information indicating whether a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal when biometric authentication of the user is successful;

retaining user information containing a contact method of the safety information with respect to a contact destination specified by the user, the contact destination corresponding to the contact method, and contact restriction information selectively indicating validity of the contact destination only by in-person authentication and the validity of the contact destination by both the in-person authentication and substitute authentication;

determining, when the contact method in the user information is a contact by an electronic message and the contact destination in the user information is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information being received to the electronic message address; and

transmitting the electronic message to the electronic message address in accordance with the determination;

wherein the receiving receives, via the network, the safety information that is input by a substitute person different from the user, the safety information being received by the information processing terminal with an alternative operation to the biometric authentication being set as a condition of the in-person authentication, the alternative operation being for the substitute authentication; and

the determining, when the safety information being input by the substitute person is received, whether to communicate the safety information to the electronic message address as the contact destination specified by the user, according to the contact restriction information in the user information that indicates the validity of the contact destination by the substitute authentication.

13. A safety information transmission method executed by a computer, the method comprising:

receiving, via a network, safety information indicating whether a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful;

retaining user information containing a contact method of the safety information with respect to a contact destination specified by the user, the contact destination corresponding to the contact method, and contact restriction information selectively indicating validity of the contact destination only by in-person authentication and the validity of the contact destination by both the in-person authentication and substitute authentication;

determining, when the contact method in the user information is a contact by an electronic message and the contact destination in the user information is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information being received to the electronic message address; and

transmitting the electronic message to the electronic message address in accordance with the determination;

wherein the receiving receives, via the network, the safety information that is input by a substitute person different from the user, the safety information being received by the information processing terminal with an alternative operation to the biometric authentication being set as a condition of the in-person authentication, the alternative operation being for the substitute authentication; and

the determining, when the safety information being input by the substitute person is received, whether to communicate the safety information to the electronic message address as the contact destination specified by the user, according to the contact restriction information in the user information that indicates the validity of the contact destination by the substitute authentication.