Methods and systems for emergency alerts

• US 9,547,972 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2014
• Issued: 01/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sal Castillo
• Original Assignee: Sal Castillo
• Inventors: Castillo, Sal
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US14/450,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20150161876A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00 Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes examination of body cavities or body tracts using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/12; endoscopic instruments for taking cell samples or for biopsy A61B10/04; for surgical purposes A61B17/00; endoscopic surgical cutting instruments A61B17/32; surgical instruments using a laser beam being directed along or through a flexible conduit A61B18/22; Illuminating arrangements therefor for the eyes A61B3/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6802 Sensor mounted on worn items
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0446 worn on the body to detect changes of posture, e.g. a fall, inclination, acceleration, gait
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/00 Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received correcting synchronisation H04L7/00

Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for biometric sensors being embedded in a wearable computing device. The biometric sensors may determine a user'"'"'s biometric data, and the determined biometric data may be transmitted to a biometric server over a network. In response to receiving the biometric data, the biometric server may parse the received biometric data to determine if an emergency alert signal should be transmitted to third parties.

Claims

1. A notification system comprising:

a profile module configured to receive biometric data from a wearable computing device over a network, wherein the biometric data is associated with a wearer of the wearable computing device;

a threshold module configured to determine that the received biometric data is outside of a threshold range;

a group module configured to determine at least one user within a first group, the first group having a first set of wearable computing devices, the first group including the at least one user associated with the wearer on the wearable computing device on a social network and, wherein the profile module is configured to receive biometric data from first set of wearable computing devices;

an alert module configured to transmit an emergency alert signal to the user within the group responsive to determining that the received biometric data is outside of the threshold range;

a location module configured to determine the locations associated with each of the first set of wearable computing devices and a second set of wearable computing devices, the locations associated with second set of wearable computing device being within a predetermined distance from a geographic region, the geographic region having a first size, the predetermined distance from the geographic region having a second size, the second size being greater than the first size;

a density module configured to determine an aggregate number of the first set of wearable computing devices having received biometric data is outside of the threshold range within the geographic region, wherein the alert module is configured to transmit a notification signal to the second set of wearable computing devices responsive to determining that the aggregate number of the first set of wearable computing devices having received biometric data is outside of the threshold range within the geographic region.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the biometric data includes at least one of heart monitor data, skin monitor data, and blood alcohol level data.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a schedule module configured to determine a schedule corresponding to the first group, the schedule including a time period and a day of the week.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the biometric data includes a timestamp, and the schedule module is configured to determine that the timestamp corresponds to the schedule of the first group.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the first group includes a plurality of users, and the alert module is configured to transmit the emergency alert signal to each of the plurality of users within the first group.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the group module is configured to determine a plurality of groups associated with the wearer of the wearable computing device, each of the groups having a different schedule.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the alert module is configured to transmit the emergency alert signal only to users within the groups having schedules corresponding to the timestamp.