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Automated response to duress in distress signals

  • US 9,870,695 B2
  • Filed: 08/31/2016
  • Issued: 01/16/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for facilitating automated response to a distress signal, the system comprising:

  • an attachment for a multifunction mobile computing device, wherein the attachment removably articulates to a sensor location coupled to a housing of the multifunction mobile computing device; and

    a computer program product in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the program instructions are computer-executable by the multifunction mobile computing device to implement;

    detecting a disarticulation of the attachment from the sensor location on the multifunction mobile computing device, and responsive to the detecting the disarticulation of the attachment from the sensor location on the multifunction mobile computing device, transmitting to a distress signal response receiver over a radiofrequency network from a radio-frequency transmitter located within a housing of the multifunction mobile computing device thea distress signal comprising location information describing a location of the mobile computing device.

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