Systems and Methods for a Safety Status Indicator System

• US 20150042467A1
• Filed: 08/09/2013
• Published: 02/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David Amis
• Original Assignee: David Amis
• Inventors: AMIS, DAVID
• Granted Patent: US 9,483,932 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.11
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/16 Anti-theft; Abduction
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/17 Emergency applications
• 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

Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking a safety status of a number of individuals, and providing pro-active security and response based on historical safety data collected by the system, as well as third-party information such as crime, traffic, weather, and news data.

Claims

1. A method for generating an indicator map, comprising:

receiving, at a server, an alarm signal from a first mobile device;

receiving, at the server, a stand-by signal from a second mobile device; and

generating, by the server, a map displaying a potential incident and an actual incident, where the potential incident is based on the stand-by signal, and the actual incident is based on the alarm signal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the potential incident and the actual incident are displayed on the map using different colors or shapes.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating an alarm, by the server, upon receipt of multiple stand-by signals from a plurality of mobile devices within a threshold distance of one another.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising, receiving at the server, a responder signal from a responder mobile device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising, displaying on the map, by the server, the responder mobile device based on the responder signal.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, transmitting, from the server, an alarm signal to a responder mobile device upon receipt of either the alarm signal or the stand-by signal by the server.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, transmitting, from the server, an alarm signal to a responder mobile device upon receipt of multiple stand-by signals from a plurality of mobile devices.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, transmitting, from the server, the alarm signal to a plurality of mobile devices upon receipt of the alarm signal or the stand-by signal.

9. A method of broadcasting security information, comprising:

receiving, at a server, a signal including a location identifier from a user mobile device;

receiving, at the server, location data corresponding to the location identifier from a remote source;

generating, by the server, a security assessment based on the location data and the signal; and

transmitting, by the server, the security assessment to a plurality of mobile devices.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the location data is selected from a group consisting of weather data, crime data, traffic data, pollution data, a news database, and construction data.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the signal is selected from a group consisting of a stand-by signal and an alarm signal.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising receiving, at the server, a plurality of signals from a plurality of mobile devices.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the security assessment has varying degrees of severity.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the security assessment indicates a potential incident or an actual incident.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein a potential incident is based on a stand-by signal, and an actual incident is based on an alarm signal.

16. A system for tracking and displaying security incidents, comprising:

a server;

at least one user mobile device communicatively coupled to the server;

at least one responder mobile device communicatively coupled to the server;

a remote database communicatively coupled to the server;

an algorithm stored on the server, the algorithm configured to classify a signal received from the user mobile device as corresponding to a potential incident or an actual incident; and

a transmitter coupled to the server, the transmitter configured to broadcast an alarm to the responder mobile device based on the classification of the signal.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising a display coupled to the server, the display configured to show a map with visual indicators of the user mobile device and the responder mobile device.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the algorithm is configured to determine at least one responder mobile device that is within a pre-determined threshold distance from the user mobile device.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the transmitter is configured to broadcast the alarm to the at least one responder mobile device within the pre-determined threshold distance.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the remote database is selected from a group consisting of a weather database, a crime database, a traffic database, a pollution database, a news database, and a construction database.