System and method of use for managing safety incident and accident first response

• US 9,928,744 B1
• Filed: 08/08/2017
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adam B. Tannenbaum
• Original Assignee: Adam B. Tannenbaum
• Inventors: Tannenbaum, Adam Benjamin
• Primary Examiner(s): Bugg, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Akhter, Sharmin
• Application Number:
  US15/671,993
• Time in Patent Office: 231 Days
• Field of Search: 34042618-42634, 340436, 340485, 3404571, 340901-905
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/093 Data selection, e.g. prioritizing information, managing message queues, selecting the information to be output
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• 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 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Abstract

The invention disclosed comprises a system for managing first response to an accident, incident or event. The system uses GPS, inter-vehicle wireless communications, and cellular radio communications to direct response team vehicles to the location of an accident, incident or event; and to convey response vehicle avoidance and detouring messages to non-response vehicles and pedestrians within a geo-fence area established by the system.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a GPS subsystem responsive to GPS satellite signals and operative to determine location coordinates based on said GPS satellite signals received and to convey said location coordinates to other subsystems;

an accident report receiving subsystem responsive to incoming accident reports, received wirelessly; and

operative to distill location and injury data for conveyance to said other subsystems;

an inter-vehicle wireless information conveyance subsystem responsive to data carried by wireless communications and received from other vehicles, and operative to receive data from said other subsystems for conveyance to said other vehicles;

said inter-vehicle wireless information conveyance subsystem is responsive to verbal messages received and operative to enable conveyance of verbal messages in response;

a processor/memory subsystem responsive to data received from said other subsystems and operative to process said data and to convey said processed data to said other subsystems;

a graphical user interface subsystem responsive to user touch and audio inputs and operative to convey control messages based on said user touch and audio inputs to said processor/memory subsystem and to receive from said processor/memory subsystem said processed data for visual display and audio reproduction;

a cellular broadcast subsystem responsive to said processed data from said processor/memory subsystem and operative to convey response-vehicle avoidance and accident-site detouring messages to recipients, conveyed wirelessly via cellular telephony networks;

a display output subsystem responsive to said processed data conveyed by said processor/memory subsystem and operative to display text and graphical images;

an audio output subsystem responsive to said processed data conveyed by said processor/memory subsystem and operative to reproduce verbal messages;

said cellular broadcast subsystem operative to convey said detouring messages to said recipients only when said recipients'"'"' mobile devices'"'"' GPS subsystems indicate said recipients are within a pedestrian geo-fence area whose said boundaries are established by said processor/memory subsystem based on said location coordinates of an incident.

2. A claim as in claim 1 further comprising:

said inter-vehicle wireless information conveyance subsystem responsive only to said other vehicle'"'"'s wireless signals when said other vehicles are within a vehicular geo-fence area whose boundaries are established by said processor/memory subsystem based on said location coordinates of an incident.

3. A use method comprising:

receiving incoming accident reports;

establishing an incident manager;

deriving incident'"'"'s location coordinates;

establishing a vehicular geo-fence area and a pedestrian geo-fence area;

determining locations of response-team vehicles;

directing said response-team vehicles to incident'"'"'s location based on said location coordinates;

detecting non-team vehicles within said vehicular geo-fence area;

conveying response-team vehicle avoidance and accident-site detouring messages to said non-team vehicles within said vehicular geo-fence area;

detecting pedestrians within said pedestrian geo-fence area;

conveying said detouring messages to said pedestrians within said pedestrian geo-fence area.