Emergency communication device

• US 9,680,982 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2015
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fibar Group S.A.
• Original Assignee: Fibar Group S.A.
• Inventors: Fiedler, Maciej
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Cong
• Application Number:
  US14/844,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20160065721A1
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 4554041, 4554042
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72424 with manual activation of emergency-service functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

An emergency communication system for use with a home network manager having one or more associated network elements. The system may comprise a processor that may communicate with at least one of the home network manager and the associated network elements, a input interface that may receive a plurality of sequential inputs and/or a management interface that may enable a user to program a plurality of programmable responses to a number of the sequential inputs, wherein each programmable response may include a user-programmable action to be activated via at least one of the emergency communication system, the home network manager and/or the associated network elements when, for example, the input interface receives the number of the sequential inputs, wherein when the input interface receives the number of the sequential inputs, the processor may communicate a corresponding user-programmed action to the at least one of the emergency communication system, the home network manager and/or the associated network elements.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a processor configurable to communicate with at least one of a home network manager or associated network elements;

a mechanical button configured to receive a first input and a second input subsequent to the first input, wherein the first input comprises a first click and the second input comprises a second click; and

wherein;

the device is programmable to program a first response corresponding to the first input and a second response corresponding to the second input, wherein the first response is different than the second response, wherein each of the first response and the second response specifies a first action and a second action, respectively, to be activated via at least one of an emergency communication system, the home network manager, or the associated network elements; and

when the mechanical button receives the first input or the second input, the device communicates a corresponding action to at least one of the emergency communication system, the home network manager, or the associated network elements.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configurable to receive data indicative of an operating status of at least one of the home network manager or the associated network elements.

3. The device of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of external ports programmable to be at least one of an input port or an output port.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein at least one of the plurality of external ports is coupled to at least one of the home network manager or the associated network elements.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein:

the mechanical button is further configured to receive a third input subsequent to the second input, wherein the third input comprises a third click;

the device is further programmable to program a third response corresponding to the third input, wherein the third response is different than the first response and the second response, wherein the third response specifies a third action to be activated via at least one of the emergency communication system, the home network manager, or the associated network elements; and

when the mechanical button receives the third input, the device communicates the third action to at least one of the emergency communication system, the home network manager, or the associated network elements.

6. A system comprising:

a plurality of associated network elements;

a home network manager, wherein the home network manager includes a management interface enabling a user to program a first action and a second action to be activated via one or more of the home network manager or associated network elements; and

a device including;

a mechanical button configured to receive a first input and a second input subsequent to the first input, wherein the first input comprises a first click and the second input comprises a second click; and

a communication module configurable to communicate with at least one of the home network manager and the associated network elements;

wherein when the mechanical button receives the first input or the second input, the communication module communicates the first action or the second action, respectively, to the at least one of the home network manager or the associated network elements to carry out the first action or the second action.

7. The system of claim 6, and wherein the panic device further comprises a plurality of external ports programmable through the management interface to be at least one of an input port or an output port.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein at least one of the plurality of external ports is coupled to at least one of the home network manager or the associated network elements.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein:

the home network manager further enables a user to program a third action to be activated via one or more of the home network manager or associated network elements;

the mechanical button is further configured to receive a third input, wherein the third input comprises a third click; and

when the mechanical button receives the third input, the communication module communicates the third action to the at least one of the home network manager or the associated network elements to carry out the third action.