Personal event data recorder

• US 8,818,614 B1
• Filed: 10/12/2006
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lekutai, Gaviphat
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Khoi
• Application Number:
  US11/548,981
• Time in Patent Office: 2,875 Days
• Field of Search: 341/123, 342/417, 375/220, 375/355, 455/323, 455/334, 455/410, 455/420, 701/1, 701/29, 701/33, 701/32.2, 701 332- 334, 701/35, 713151-152, 713/161, 713164-165
• US Class Current: 701/32.2
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/00 Registering or indicating the condition or the working of machines or other apparatus, other than vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/12 Manually actuated calamity alarm transmitting arrangements emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm, activators, e.g. details of alarm push buttons mounted on an infrastructure

Abstract

A personal event data recorder (PEDR) is provided. The PEDR may be integrated within a mobile communications device or may be provided as a separate add-on device operatively linked to the mobile communications device. The PEDR is configured to activate a number of sensors based upon an event trigger and monitor and record event data from the sensors. The PEDR is further configured to store the recorded event data in one of a memory and a network database. The PEDR may also be utilized with a secondary sensor system such as, but not limited to, a vehicle sensor system or a security sensor system.

Claims

1. A mobile telecommunications device comprising;

a processor;

a plurality of sensors, wherein one of the plurality of sensors comprises a biometric sensor associated with the processor; and

a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising

monitoring data from the biometric sensor,

determining, based on the data from the biometric sensor, that an event trigger has occurred,

in response to determining that the event trigger has occurred, activating a sensor from the plurality of sensors, manipulating a sensitivity of the biometric sensor, and

in response to activating the sensor from the plurality of sensors, storing, to the memory, event data collected by the biometric sensor and the sensor from the plurality of sensors that is activated.

2. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 1, wherein the event trigger comprises a type of event trigger and wherein the sensor activated from the plurality of sensors is based on the type of event trigger of the event trigger.

3. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 1, wherein the event trigger comprises a threshold value and wherein determining, based on the data from the biometric sensor, that the event trigger has occurred comprises determining, based on the data from the biometric sensor, that the data exceeds the threshold value.

4. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 1, wherein the memory stores a setting.

5. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 1, wherein the setting identifies an event recording period.

6. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise sending the event data to a storage node.

7. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 1, wherein a sensor input associated with an external sensor.

8. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 1, wherein an extraction device interface associated with a data extraction device.

9. A mobile telecommunications device comprising:

a processor;

a plurality of sensors, where one of the plurality of sensors comprises a biometric sensor associated with the processor; and

a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising

monitoring data from the biometric sensor,

determining, based on the data from the biometric sensor, that an event trigger has occurred, wherein the event trigger comprises a threshold value and wherein determining, based on the data from the biometric sensor, that the event trigger has occurred comprises determining, based on the data from the biometric sensor, that the data exceeds the threshold value,

in response to determining that the event trigger has occurred, activating a sensor from the plurality of sensors,

manipulating a sensitivity of the biometric sensor, storing the event data in response to activating the sensor, and

transmitting the event data to a storage node.

10. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 9, wherein the event trigger comprises a type of event trigger and wherein the sensor activated from the plurality of sensors is based on the type of event trigger of the event trigger.

11. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 9, wherein the memory stores a setting.

12. The personal event data recorder of claim 11, wherein the setting identifies an event recording period.

13. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise saving the event data at the storage node.

14. The mobile telecommunications device of claim 9 further comprising a sensor input associated with an external sensor.

15. A method comprising:

monitoring, by a mobile telecommunications device comprising a processor and a plurality of sensors, data from a biometric sensor of the plurality of sensors,

determining, by the processor based on the data from the biometric sensor, that an event trigger has occurred,

in response to determining that the event trigger has occurred, activating, by the processor, a sensor from the plurality of sensors, manipulating, by the processor, a sensitivity of the biometric sensor, and

in response to activating the sensor from the plurality of sensors, storing, by the processor to a memory of the device, event data collected by the biometric sensor and the sensor from the plurality of sensors that is activated.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein storing the event data comprises sending, by the processor, the event data to a storage node.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising extracting, by the processor, the event data from the memory of the device.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising extracting, by the processor, the event data from the storage node.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising extracting, by the processor, the event data from the memory of the mobile device and a storage node.