EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20140292510A1
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Choprix LLC
• Original Assignee: Choprix LLC
• Inventors: Cholhan, Hilary J., Cholhan, Remy
• Granted Patent: US 9,311,801 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.13
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A system, apparatus and method for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, which includes a processor obtaining data from at least one sensor, determining, that the data indicates an emergency condition, based on the determining, obtaining location information and a unique identifier, and communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection.

Claims

1. A method for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a processor, data from at least one sensor;

determining, by the processor, that the data indicates an emergency condition;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, location information;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, a unique identifier from a memory;

communicating, by the processor, the location information and the unique identifier to a node on a computer network via a network connection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining comprises applying, by the processor, at least one pre-configured threshold to evaluate whether the data from the trigger exceeds the pre-configured threshold.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining location information comprises obtaining the location information from a location device.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the location device comprises at least one of:

a GPS, or an accelerometer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer network comprises a cloud-based communication system comprising at least one processor and one memory.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a terminal.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to the memory in the cloud-based communication system; and

obtaining, from the memory in the cloud-based communication system, supplemental data based on the unique identifier.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

communicating the supplemental data to a terminal.

9. A computer system for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, the computer system comprising:

a memory;

a processor in communications with the memory;

a trigger in communication with the processor;

a location device in communication with the processor; and

a transponder in communication with the processor, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, the method comprising;

obtaining, by the processor, data from the trigger;

determining, by the processor, that the data indicates an emergency condition;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, location information from the location device;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, a unique identifier from the memory;

communicating, by the processor, by the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection by using the transponder.

10. The computer system claim 9, wherein the determining comprises applying, by the processor, at least one pre-configured threshold to evaluate whether the data from the trigger exceeds the pre-configured threshold.

11. The computer system of claim 9, further comprising a receiver in communication with the processor, wherein the obtaining of the data from the trigger comprises receiving the data by the receiver.

12. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the location device comprises at least one of:

a GPS, or an accelerometer.

13. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the node is in communication with a cloud-based communication system comprising at least one processor and one memory.

14. The computer system of claim 9, the method further comprising:

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a terminal in communication with the node.

15. The computer system of claim 9, the method further comprising:

communicating the location information and the unique identifier to a second memory resource; and

obtaining, from the second memory resource, supplemental data based on the unique identifier.

16. The computer system of claim 15, the method further comprising:

communicating the supplemental data to a terminal in communication with the node.

17. The computer system of claim 16, further comprising a receiver, wherein the trigger comprises a pre-defined number of the plurality of sensors located in a position external to the wearable object experiencing a pre-defined threshold of pressure, wherein the trigger is configured to communicate with the processor via the receiver via a wireless communication connection.

18. The computer system of claim 17, wherein the trigger is located on one of:

a helmet, or a karachute.

19. A computer program for alerting an emergency responder to an emergency, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

obtaining, by a processor, data from at least one sensor;

determining, by the processor, that the data indicates an emergency condition;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, location information;

based on the determining, obtaining, by the processor, a unique identifier;

communicating, by the processor, the location information and the unique identifier to a node via a network connection.

20. The computer program of claim 19, wherein the determining comprises applying, by the processor, at least one pre-configured threshold.