Instant personal emergency communication messaging device

• US 9,818,280 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2016
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OGO Mangum & Associates, LLC
• Original Assignee: Mason Paul Mangum
• Inventors: Mangum, Mason Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US15/240,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20170053509A1
• Time in Patent Office: 453 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• 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 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

An instant personal emergency messaging platform in which message content is represented and transmitted via a single operation with the operation invoking a coding of geographic location and status data used to confirm the location and status of an individual.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for single action messaging and location confirmation, comprising executing on a processor the steps of:

presenting to a user of a computerized interface a graphical representation of at least two color coded messaging codes indicative of an urgency level of a message;

receiving a user selection of a one of the at least two color coded messaging codes;

delivering via a communication network a message according to the selected color coded messaging code to a first recipient corresponding to the selected color coded messaging code;

delivering via a communication network the message according to the selected color coded messaging code to a second recipient following receipt of an indication that the message according to the selected color coded messaging code was not acknowledged by the first recipient; and

graphically presenting to the second recipient a representation of a geographic location of the user, the graphically presented representation color coded according to the selected color coded messaging code.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising delivering via a communication network the message according to the selected color coded messaging code to a third recipient following receipt of an indication that the message according to the selected color coded messaging code was not acknowledged by the second recipient.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second recipient is identified by the selected color coded messaging code.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second recipient is not identified by the selected color coded messaging code.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the third recipient is identified by the selected color coded messaging code.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the third recipient is not identified by the selected color coded messaging code.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication that the message according to the selected color coded messaging code was not acknowledged by the first recipient is based on lapse of a predetermined period of delay.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising graphically presenting to the user a representation of a geographic location of the first recipient, the graphically presented representation color coded according to the selected color coded messaging code.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user selects the first recipient and the second recipient via a social network interface.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the color coded messaging code indicates a health status of the user.

11. A computer-implemented method for single action messaging and location confirmation, comprising executing on a processor the steps of:

presenting to a user of a computerized interface a graphical representation of at least two color coded messaging codes indicative of an urgency level of a message;

receiving a user selection of a one of the at least two color coded messaging codes;

delivering via a communication network the selected color coded messaging code to a first recipient corresponding to the selected messaging code;

delivering via a communication network a message according to the selected color coded messaging code to a second recipient following receipt of an indication that the message according to the selected color coded messaging code was not acknowledged by the first recipient; and

graphically presenting to the second recipient a representation of a status of the user, the graphically presented representation color coded according to the selected color coded messaging code.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising delivering via a communication network the message according to the selected color coded message code to a third recipient following receipt of an indication that the message according to the selected color coded messaging code was not acknowledged by the second recipient.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the second recipient is identified by the selected color coded messaging code.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the second recipient is not identified by the selected color coded messaging code.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the third recipient is identified by the color coded selected messaging code.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the third recipient is not identified by the selected color coded messaging code.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the indication that the message according to the selected color coded messaging code was not acknowledged by the first recipient is based on lapse of a predetermined period of delay.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising graphically presenting to the user a representation of a geographic location of the first recipient, the graphically presented representation color coded according to the selected color coded messaging code.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the user selects the first recipient and the second recipient via a social network interface.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the color coded messaging code indicates a security status of the user.