Emergency notification apparatus and method

• US 9,311,801 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Choprix LLC
• Original Assignee: Choprix LLC
• Inventors: Cholhan, Hilary J., Cholhan, Remy
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phung
• Application Number:
  US14/227,493
• Publication Number:
  US 20140292510A1
• Time in Patent Office: 747 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.13, 340/539.11, 340/539.15, 340/539.21, 340/573.1, 340/13.24, 455/73, 455/92, 455/100
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A system, apparatus and method for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, which includes a processor obtaining data from at least one sensor, determining, that the data indicates an emergency condition, based on the determining, obtaining location information and a unique identifier, and communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection.

Claims

1. A method for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a processor, via a receiver, data from a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises a pre-defined number of a plurality of sensors;

determining, by the processor, that the data indicates an emergency condition;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, location information;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, a unique identifier from a memory;

communicating, by the processor, the location information and the unique identifier to a node on a computer network via a network connection;

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a second memory resource;

obtaining, from the second memory resource, supplemental data based on the unique identifier; and

communicating the supplemental data to a terminal in communication with the node.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining comprises applying, by the processor, at least one pre-configured threshold to evaluate whether the data from the trigger exceeds the pre-configured threshold.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the location device comprises at least one of:

a GPS, or an accelerometer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining location information comprises obtaining the location information from a location device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer network comprises a cloud-based communication system comprising at least one processor and one memory.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the second memory resource is the memory in the cloud-based communication system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to the terminal.

8. A computer system for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, the computer system comprising:

a memory;

a processor in communications with the memory;

a receiver;

a trigger in communication with the processor, wherein the trigger comprises a pre-defined number of a plurality of sensors;

a location device in communication with the processor; and

a transponder in communication with the processor, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, the method comprising;

obtaining, by the processor, data from the trigger;

determining, by the processor, that the data indicates an emergency condition;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, location information from the location device;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, a unique identifier from the memory;

communicating, by the processor, the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection by using the transponder;

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a second memory resource;

obtaining, from the second memory resource, supplemental data based on the unique identifier; and

communicating the supplemental data to a terminal in communication with the node.

9. The computer system claim 8, wherein the determining comprises applying, by the processor, at least one pre-configured threshold to evaluate whether the data from the trigger exceeds the pre-configured threshold.

10. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the location device comprises at least one of:

a GPS, or an accelerometer.

11. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the node is in communication with a cloud-based communication system comprising at least one processor and one memory.

12. The computer system of claim 8, the method further comprising:

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a terminal in communication with the node.

13. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the plurality of sensors are located in a position external to a wearable object experiencing a pre-defined threshold of pressure, and wherein the trigger is configured to communicate with the processor via the receiver via a wireless communication connection.

14. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the trigger is located on one of:

a helmet, or a karachute.

15. A computer program for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

obtaining, by a processor, via a receiver, data from a trigger, wherein the trigger comprises a pre-defined number of a plurality of sensors;

determining, by the processor, that the data indicates an emergency condition;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, location information;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, a unique identifier;

communicating, by the processor, the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection;

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a second memory resource;

obtaining, from the second memory resource, supplemental data based on the unique identifier; and

communicating the supplemental data to a terminal in communication with the node.

16. The computer program of claim 15, wherein the determining comprises applying, by the processor, at least one pre-configured threshold.