System and Method for Emergency Notification Content Delivery

• US 20070275690A1
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Published: 11/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Ochoa Optics LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: McNeil, Laurie, Fallon, James, Ballou, Bernard, Hebrank, John, Hunter, Charles, Summer, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 8,412,147 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.200
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 19/00 Alarms responsive to two or more different undesired or abnormal conditions, e.g. burglary and fire, abnormal temperature and abnormal rate of flow
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/12 responsive to undesired emission of substances, e.g. pollution alarms
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/06 using electric transmission , e.g. involving audible and visible signalling through the use of sound and light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.

Claims

1-69. -69. (canceled)

70. A method that disseminates emergency notification content from an emergency originating source, the method comprising:

delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to a group of users; and

receiving a verification from at least one individual user from the group of users.

71. The method of claim 70, wherein the verification indicates at least one of (a) that the emergency notification content has been received and (b) that the emergency notification content is collaborated.

72. The method of claim 70, further comprising receiving a GPS location of a device associated with the at least one individual, wherein the emergency notification content is delivered to a location within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

73. A method that provides a remote medical analysis, the method comprising:

detecting at least one medical parameter of a patient with at least one sensor operatively coupled to a device;

transmitting data corresponding to the at least one medical parameter from the device to a remote location;

receiving medical analysis from the remote location to the device, wherein the medical analysis is at least partly based on the at least one medical parameter; and

displaying the medical analysis to the patient.

74. A system that disseminates emergency notification content from an emergency originating source, the system comprising:

a first transmission apparatus configured to deliver the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to a group of users; and

a device corresponding to at least one individual user from the group of users that receive the emergency notification content and transmitting a verification.

75. The system of claim 74, wherein the device is located in a fixed location.

76. The system of claim 74, wherein the device is located in a mobile location.

77. The system of claim 74, wherein the device further comprises a GPS transmitter configured to transmit a GPS location of the device, and wherein the emergency notification content is delivered to a location within a predetermined proximity to an emergency for which the emergency notification content is relevant.

78. A system that provides a remote medical analysis, the system comprising:

a device that detects at least one medical parameter of a patient with at least one sensor operatively coupled thereto, the device further having a first transmission apparatus configured to transmit data corresponding to the at least one medical parameter from the device to a remote location;

a receiving apparatus at the remote location that receives the data from the device;

an apparatus configured to determine a medical analysis based on the data;

transmission apparatus configured to transmit the medical analysis from the remote location to the device; and

a display operatively coupled to the device configured to displaying the medical analysis to the patient.

79. A device configured to display emergency notification content to a corresponding user, the device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive the emergency notification content from a remote location;

a display configured to display the emergency notification content to the corresponding user; and

wherein the device is other than a radio or television.

80. The device of claim 79, wherein the device further comprises a GPS transmitter configured to transmit a GPS location of the device to the remote location.

81. The device of claim 79, wherein the device is selected from a group consisting of a set top box, a computer, a video cassette player, a DVD player, a CD player, a WebTV device, a video game player, a video game controller, a pager, a cellular phone, and a personal digital assistant.

82. The device of claim 79, wherein the display comprises a monitor configured to display a visual reproduction of the emergency notification content.

83. The device of claim 79, wherein the display comprises a speaker configured to display an audio reproduction of the emergency notification content.

84. A device configured to display emergency notification content to a corresponding user, the device comprising:

at least one sensor operatively coupled to the device configured to detect at least one environmental parameter;

a transmitter configured to transmit data from the at least one sensor to a remote location;

a receiver configured to receive the emergency notification content from the remote location, the emergency notification content being at least partly based on the transmitted data; and

a display configured to display the emergency notification content to the corresponding user.

85. The device of claim 84, wherein the device further comprises a GPS transmitter configured to transmit a GPS location of the device to the remote location.

86. The device of claim 84, wherein the device is selected from a group consisting of a set top box, a computer, a video cassette player, a DVD player, a CD player, a WebTV device, a video game player, a video game controller, a pager, a cellular phone, and a personal digital assistant.

87. The device of claim 84, further comprising means configured to automatically turn on the device to display the emergency notification content when the device is determined to be off.

88. The device of claim 84, wherein the display comprises at least one of (a) a monitor configured to display a visual reproduction of the emergency notification content and (b) a speaker configured to display an audio reproduction of the emergency notification content.

89. A device configured to inform a patient of a medical analysis, the device comprising:

at least one sensor operatively coupled to the device configured to detecting at least one medical parameter;

a transmitter configured to transmit data from the at least one sensor to a remote location;

a receiver configured to receive the medical analysis based on the data from the remote location; and

a display configured to display the medical analysis to the patient.

90. A device configured to display emergency notification content to a corresponding user, the device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive the emergency notification content from the remote location; and

a transmission apparatus configured to transmit a verification.

91. The device of claim 90, wherein the verification indicates that the emergency notification content has been received.

92. The device of claim 90, wherein the verification indicates that the emergency notification content is collaborated.

93. The system of claim 90, wherein the device further comprises a GPS transmitter configured to transmit a GPS location of the device to the remote location.

94. A device that allows configured to turn on of a display device configured to display emergency notification content, comprising:

circuitry configured to receive a first signal and convert the first signal to a second signal;

at least one emitter configured to send the second signal to the display device configured to display emergency notification content; and

wherein the device configured to turn on the display device is located in the proximity of a signal receiver of the display device.

95. The device of claim 94, wherein the first signal is a radio frequency (RF) signal.

96. The device of claim 94, wherein the RF signal contains a turn-on code for the display device.

97. The device of claim 96, wherein the RF signal is one of (a) stored local to the display device (b) obtained remotely from the display device.

98. The device of claim 97, wherein the RF signal that is obtained remotely from the display device is one of (a) download locally to the display device (b) streamed locally to the display device.

99. The device of claim 94, wherein the second signal is an infrared (IF) signal.

100. The device of claim 94, wherein the at least one emitter is an infrared (IF) emitter.

101. The device of claim 94, wherein the signal receiver of the display device is a photo detector.

102. The device of claim 94, wherein the first signal is received by the device from a remote source.

103. The device of claim 94, wherein the emitter is configured to emit the second signal to a lip component of the device.

104. The device of claim 94, wherein the lip component of the device is configured to reflect the second signal to a photo detector of the display device.

105. The device of claim 94, wherein the second signal is configured to at least one of (a) adjust the volume of the display device and (b) adjust the channel of the display device.

106. A method that turns on remotely a display configured to display emergency notification content, comprising:

receiving a first signal from a remote location, wherein the first signal contains code is configured to at least turning on the display device;

converting the first signal to a second signal configured to turn on the display device; and

sending the second signal to a display device signal receiver, wherein the sending occurs within the immediate proximity of the signal receiver.

107. The method of claim 106, wherein the second signal adjusts at least one of (a) the volume of the display device and (b) the channel of the display device.

108. A computer readable medium storing thereon computer executable instructions configured to providing emergency content notification, comprising:

an instruction that is configured to send out an emergency notification message; and

an instruction that is configured to receive a verification of that the emergency notification messages has been received.

109. A computer readable medium storing thereon computer executable instructions configured to transmitting, receiving, processing, and displaying medical analysis, comprising:

an instruction configured to detecting at least one medical parameter of a patient with at least one sensor operatively coupled to a device;

an instruction configured to transmitting data corresponding to the at least one medical parameter from the device to a remote location;

an instruction configured to receiving medical analysis from the remote location to the device, wherein the medical analysis is at least partly based on the at least one medical parameter; and

an instruction configured to displaying the medical analysis to the patient.