SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY MESSAGES TO A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20110212700A1
• Filed: 05/06/2011
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SIPCO LLC (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SIPCO LLC (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: Petite, Thomas David
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,063 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/17 Emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• 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 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

The present invention is directed to systems and methods for providing emergency messages to a mobile device. In an exemplary embodiment, a system for communicating emergency messages is provided comprising a mobile device comprising an emergency message application and a personal emergency message transceiver, an emergency message control center, wherein the emergency message application is enabled to receive a plurality of emergency messages generated by the emergency message control center.

Claims

1. A system for communicating emergency messages, the system comprising:

a mobile device comprising an emergency message application and a personal emergency message transceiver;

an emergency message control center; and

wherein the emergency message application is enabled to receive a plurality of emergency messages generated by the emergency message control center.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency message application can provide a plurality of location data regarding a current location of the mobile device to the emergency message system control center.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency message system control center can track the location of the mobile device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency message control center provides only the plurality of emergency messages relevant to a current location of the mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the emergency message application can be configured to provide a user with only certain types of the plurality of emergency messages.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the personal emergency message transceiver is enabled to communicate with a wireless network using a wireless protocol from the IEEE 802 family of standards, including 802.11 wireless LAN, 802.14 cable modems, 802.15 wireless PAN, 802.15.1 Bluetooth, 802.15.4 ZigBee, and 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access WiMAX.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the mobile device communicates with the emergency message system control center via an Internet connection provided by the wireless network.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the personal emergency message transceiver is enabled to communicate with a cellular base station.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the mobile device communicates with the emergency message system control center via an Internet connection linked to a cellular communication network of the cellular base station.

10. A system for transmitting emergency messages, comprising:

a personal emergency message transceiver configured in a mobile device with an emergency message application enabled to receive an emergency message from a second transceiver based on an identification code uniquely associated with the personal emergency message transceiver;

a cellular transceiver co-located with the second transceiver configured to communicate with a cellular communication network; and

an emergency message system control center configured to communicate the emergency message between any one of the first or second and an intermediary communication system to the personal emergency message transceiver based on the identification code.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the emergency message application can provide a plurality of location data regarding a current location of the mobile device to the emergency message system control center.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the emergency message system control center can track the location of the mobile device.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the emergency message system control center provides only the plurality of emergency messages relevant to a current location of the mobile device.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the emergency message application can be configured to provide only certain types of the plurality of emergency messages.

15. A wireless communication device comprising:

a transceiver configured to send and receive one or more emergency messages via one or more devices in the network;

an emergency message application operatively connected to a memory;

wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a plurality of emergency messages generated by an emergency message system control center; and

wherein the emergency message application is configured to provide the plurality of emergency messages to a user of the wireless communication device.

16. The wireless communication device of claim 15, wherein the emergency message application can be configured to provide only certain types of the plurality of emergency messages to the user based on a predetermined preference of the user.

17. The wireless communication device of claim 15, wherein the transceiver of the wireless communication device is enabled to communicate with a wireless network using a wireless protocol from the IEEE 802 family of standards, including 802.11 wireless LAN, 802.14 cable modems, 802.15 wireless PAN, 802.15.1 Bluetooth, 802.15.4 ZigBee, and 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access WiMAX.

18. The wireless communication device of claim 17, wherein the wireless communication device communicates with the emergency message system control center via an Internet connection provided by the wireless network.

19. The wireless communication device of claim 15, wherein the transceiver of the wireless communication device is enabled to communicate with a cellular base station.

20. The wireless communication device of claim 19, wherein the wireless communication device communicates with the emergency message system control center via an Internet connection linked to a cellular communication network of the cellular base station.