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Mobile emergency attack and failsafe detection

  • US 8,929,853 B2
  • Filed: 09/05/2012
  • Issued: 01/06/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • a mobile device entering a particular mode of operation and starting a timer;

    while the mobile device is in the particular mode of operation, the mobile device determining whether a particular input has been received at the mobile device prior to expiration of the timer;

    in response to determining that the particular input was not received prior to the expiration of the timer, the mobile device automatically performing operations comprising;

    determining a current location of the mobile device;

    sending the current location to a repository that stores mappings between (a) particular locations of other mobile devices determined when the other mobile devices sent the particular locations to the repository and (b) telephone numbers that the other mobile devices sent to the repository when the other mobile devices sent the particular locations to the repository;

    receiving, from the repository, a particular telephone number that the repository previously mapped to the current location in response to receiving the particular telephone number from another mobile device that was also at the current location; and

    sending information to a specified recipient associated with the particular telephone number.

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