Methods, systems, and products for emergency services

• US 10,341,619 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2018
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tofighbakhsh, Mostafa
• Primary Examiner(s): Teitelbaum, Michael E
• Application Number:
  US15/872,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20180146171A1
• Time in Patent Office: 532 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products provide emergency services during emergency situations. When an emergency situation is determined, activation commands are sent to activate cameras and/or microphones within a geographic vicinity of the emergency situation. Mobile devices and traffic cameras, for example, are thus instructed to capture image and audio data during the emergency situation.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a connection for communicating with a network;

a processor in communication with the connection; and

memory storing instructions that cause the processor to effectuate operations, the operations comprising;

receiving an indication that an emergency notification was sent from a communications device;

determining a first location of the communications device;

querying for devices connected to the network that have a view of the first location;

based on the querying, identifying a nearby mobile device located at a second location;

in response to the querying, receiving a list of nearby devices, the list indicative of nearby device locations associated with the nearby devices, wherein the nearby devices comprise the nearby mobile device;

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has a first camera resolution value; and

based on the first camera resolution value not meeting a minimum requirement, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

2. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

determining that a distance between the first location and the second location is within a predefined distance; and

when the nearby mobile device is within the predefined distance, causing the nearby mobile device to capture image data from a camera associated with the nearby mobile device.

3. The system of claim 2, the operations further comprising:

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has the view of the first location; and

based the first nearby device having the view, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first camera resolution value not meeting the minimum requirement is based on a relative distance between the first nearby device and the first location.

5. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has defective camera; and

based on the defective camera, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

6. A method, comprising:

receiving an indication that an emergency notification was sent from a communications device;

determining a first location of the communications device;

querying for devices connected to the network that have a view of the first location;

based on the querying, identifying a nearby mobile device located at a second location;

in response to the querying, receiving a list of nearby devices, the list indicative of nearby device locations associated with the nearby devices, wherein the nearby devices comprise the nearby mobile device;

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has a first camera resolution value; and

based on the first camera resolution value not meeting a minimum requirement, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining that a distance between the first location and the second location is within a predefined distance; and

when the nearby mobile device is within the predefined distance, causing the nearby mobile device to capture image data from a camera associated with the nearby mobile device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has the view of the first location; and

based the first nearby device having the view, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the first camera resolution value not meeting the minimum requirement is based on a relative distance between the first nearby device and the first location.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has defective camera; and

based on the defective camera, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing instructions that cause the processor to effectuate operations, the operations comprising;

receiving an indication that an emergency notification was sent from a communications device;

determining a first location of the communications device;

querying for devices connected to the network that have a view of the first location;

based on the querying, identifying a nearby mobile device located at a second location;

in response to the querying, receiving a list of nearby devices, the list indicative of nearby device locations associated with the nearby devices, wherein the nearby devices comprise the nearby mobile device;

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has a first camera resolution value; and

based on the first camera resolution value not meeting a minimum requirement, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, the operations further comprising:

determining that a distance between the first location and the second location is within a predefined distance; and

when the nearby mobile device is within the predefined distance, causing the nearby mobile device to capture image data from a camera associated with the nearby mobile device.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, the operations further comprising:

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has the view of the first location; and

based the first nearby device having the view, excluding the first nearby device from the list.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first camera resolution value not meeting the minimum requirement is based on a relative distance between the first nearby device and the first location.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, the operations further comprising:

determining that a first nearby device of the nearby devices has defective camera; and

based on the defective camera, excluding the first nearby device from the list.