Systems and methods for a safety status indicator system

• US 9,483,932 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2013
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David Amis
• Original Assignee: David Amis
• Inventors: Amis, David
• Primary Examiner(s): BEE, ANDREW W.
• Application Number:
  US13/963,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20150042467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,180 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/16 Anti-theft; Abduction
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/17 Emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations

Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking a safety status of a number of individuals, and providing pro-active security and response based on historical safety data collected by the system, as well as third-party information such as crime, traffic, weather, and news data.

Claims

1. A method for generating an indicator map, comprising:

receiving, at a server, an alarm signal from a first mobile device;

receiving, at the server, a stand-by signal from a second mobile device;

receiving, at the server, a responder signal from a responder mobile device;

generating, by the server, a map displaying a location of a potential incident, a location of an actual incident, and a location of the responder mobile device, where the potential incident is based on the stand-by signal, and the actual incident is based on the alarm signal;

displaying the map on a display, by the server;

displaying, by the server, additional information related to the locations, where the additional information is shown adjacent to the map on the display, wherein the additional information consists of a police report, a maintenance record, and weather data; and

generating, by the server, a suggested security improvement, based on the alarm signal, the stand-by signal, and the additional information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the potential incident and the actual incident are displayed on the map using different colors or shapes.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating an alarm, by the server, upon receipt of multiple stand-by signals from a plurality of mobile devices within a threshold distance of one another.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional information further consists of police radio channel transcriptions.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the suggested security improvement is selected from a group comprising an installation of emergency response call boxes, installation of additional lighting, deployment of security officers.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, transmitting, from the server, an alarm to a responder mobile device upon receipt of either the alarm signal or the stand-by signal by the server.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, transmitting, from the server, an alarm to a responder mobile device upon receipt of multiple stand-by signals from a plurality of mobile devices.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, transmitting, from the server, an alarm to a plurality of mobile devices upon receipt of the alarm signal or the stand-by signal.