Systems, devices and methods to communicate public safety information

• US 9,913,121 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2015
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James Petrizzi
• Original Assignee: James Petrizzi
• Inventors: Johnson, Jeffrey Douglas, Petrizzi, James Vincent
• Primary Examiner(s): La, Anh V
• Application Number:
  US14/726,611
• Publication Number:
  US 20150264550A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• Field of Search: 3405391, 34053925, 34053912, 34053913, 34053911, 3404255, 34042616, 3404261, 34042628, 340540, 348148, 4554041, 4554042, 4554561
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19621 Portable camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• 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 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/001 Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Systems, devices and/or methods include communication of information, such as real-time rich media (e.g., video and audio) to, from and/or between a mobile first responder, such as remote public safety field personnel for public safety applications. Sensor data may be captured, stored, or transmitted and disseminated in real-time or on a schedule from field officers or their vehicles, based on one or more defined rules. In some examples, communication priority may be determined in response to detecting one or more events at a location of a mobile first responder.

Claims

1. A method wireless communication, comprising:

detecting one or more events at a location of a mobile first responder;

determining a communication priority level in response to the detecting of one or more events;

establishing a first wireless communication from the mobile first responder in a wireless communication system having a plurality of communication priority levels including the determined communication priority level, the determined wireless communication level being assigned to the first wireless communication.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a threat level to the mobile first responder based upon the detecting of the one or more events; and

determining the communication priority level in response to the determined threat level.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the detecting one or more events comprises detecting a change in the state of a weapon of the first responder.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the detecting one or more events comprises detecting at least one of:

unholstering a weapon, putting a safety mechanism of a weapon in an off state, firing a weapon and deploying a weapon.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the detecting one or more events comprises detecting a stress level of the first responder.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein detecting the stress level of the first responder comprises monitoring a heart rate of the first responder.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting one or more events comprises detecting the status of a vehicle associated with the first responder.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein detecting the status of the vehicle associated with the first responder comprises detecting a speed of the vehicle.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of communication priority levels of the wireless communication system are used by the wireless communication system to determine a bandwidth of plural communication links of the wireless communication system.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of communication priority levels are used by the communication system to determine which of plural communication links of the wireless communication system to terminate in the event of over congestion of the communication system.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

establishing the first wireless communication with the mobile first responder and an additional party, wherein the additional party is selected in response to the determined communication priority level.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

the additional party selecting rules for receiving communications, and

establishing the first wireless communication with the mobile first responder and the additional party in response to the determined communication priority level and the rules selected by the additional party.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the first wireless communication with the first mobile responder is automatically established in response to the detecting of the one or more events.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first wireless communication transmits images taken from the location of the first responder.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the images taken from the location of the first responder are transmitted in real time.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the images are video images.

17. A mobile communications device, comprising:

one or more sensors configured to sense respective information at the location of the mobile communications device and to provide respective sensor data;

a rules engine processor configured to receive the sensor data, to analyze the sensor data to detect one or more events, and to determine a communications priority based on the detected one or more events; and

a transmitter configured to establish a communication over a wireless network with the communications priority determined by the rules engine processor, the communications priority effective to determine a communications mode for the communication by the wireless network.

18. The mobile communications device of claim 17, further comprising a processor configured to automatically initiate a transmission of sensor data information with the communication.