Wireless device emergency services connection and panic button, with crime and safety information system

• US 8,588,733 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2010
• Issued: 11/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cellular Mobile Routing Company LLC
• Original Assignee: Lifestream Corporation
• Inventors: Lonstein, Tony Charles, Ferguson, Daniel Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): Trandai, Scott
• Application Number:
  US12/945,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20110111728A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.2, 455/404.1, 455/521, 455/412.1, 455/575.1, 379/37, 379/45, 340/574, 340/379, 340/45, 340/37, 37035501-3551
• US Class Current: 455/404.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72424 with manual activation of emergency-service functions
• 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 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A system and method for providing a conduit to send information to emergency services from a wireless device. Systems and methods for registering an alarm button on a wireless device and sending to public and/or private emergency services providers information related to the wireless device including its location, information about a wireless device end user and/or subscriber associated with the wireless device, and information recorded by one or more wireless devices during and subsequent to the time the alarm button is activated.

Claims

1. A method of registering and distributing an alarm, the method comprising:

registering, at a server, that an alarm button has been pressed on a communications device;

determining a location of the communications device based at least in part on a phone number or TCP/IP address assigned to the communications device;

accessing a database to determine a safety network associated with the communications device, the safety network comprising address information of parties to contact;

accessing the database to determine address information of subscribers proximate the location of the communications device;

sending messages to at least one address of a party in the safety network and to at least one address of a proximate subscriber; and

sending at least one additional message to an emergency services center.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising

transmitting the location as part of at least one of the messages.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the emergency services center is chosen based on the location.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one message comprises a SIP message.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communications device comprises a mobile device or a wired device.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one additional message is sent after a predetermined interval of time.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising adding a party to the safety network in accordance with a request from a user of the communications device.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising initiating a multiparty communication between a group consisting of at least two of the safety-network parties, subscribers, and emergency services center.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the parties in the safety network are selected based at least in part on the location or a time of pressing the alarm button.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the database further comprises information concerning a user of the communications device, the information comprising a parent/guardian, name, address, picture, gender, hair color, eye color, ethnicity, height, weight, date of birth, fingerprint, DNA information, or current photo.

11. A system for registering and distributing an alarm, the system comprising:

a. a processor operable to execute computer program instructions; and

b. a memory operable to store computer program instructions executable by the processor, for performing the steps of;

i. registering, at a server, that an alarm button has been pressed on a communications device;

ii. determining a location of the communications device based at least in part on a phone number or TCP/IP address assigned to the communications device;

iii. accessing a database to determine a safety network associated with the communications device, the safety network comprising address information of parties to contact;

iv. accessing the database to determine address information of subscribers proximate the location of the communications device;

v. sending messages to at least one address of a party in the safety network and to at least one address of a proximate subscriber; and

vi. sending at least one additional message to an emergency services center.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the communications device comprises a mobile device or a wired device.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one additional message is sent after a predetermined interval of time.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the steps further comprise adding a party to the safety network in accordance with a request from a user of the communications device.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the steps further comprise initiating a multiparty communication between a group consisting of at least two of the safety-network parties, subscribers, and emergency services center.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the parties in the safety network are selected based at least in part on the location or a time of pressing the alarm button.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the database further comprises information concerning a user of the communications device, the information comprising a parent/guardian, name, address, picture, gender, hair color, eye color, ethnicity, height, weight, date of birth, fingerprint, DNA information, or current photo.