Personal emergency triggering, notification and communication for smartwatches

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

• detect a triggering event indicating an emergency, wherein the triggering event is detected from user input received by a wearable mobile device;
• determine a location of the wearable mobile device, the location of the wearable mobile device corresponding to a location of the emergency;
• provide an indication of the emergency and the location of the emergency to a personal safety service server, wherein the personal safety service server is configured to send a notification message via a push notification displayed on user devices of the predefined group of emergency contacts indicating the occurrence of the emergency associated with a user;
• provide confirmation that the notification message sent via a push notification was displayed on the user device of at least one member of the predefined group of emergency contacts;
• and
• periodically provide updates for the location of the wearable mobile device to the personal safety service server.

A personal safety service system comprising:

• a wearable mobile device comprising a first processing device and a first memory, the first memory storing a personal safety service client application, executable by the first processing device from the first memory to:
• detect a triggering event indicating an emergency, wherein the triggering event is detected from user input received by the wearable mobile device;
• determine a location of the wearable mobile device, the location of the wearable mobile device corresponding to a location of the emergency;
• provide an indication of the emergency and the location of the emergency to a personal safety service server, wherein the personal safety service server is configured to send a notification message via a push notification displayed on user devices of the predefined group of emergency contacts indicating the occurrence of the emergency associated with a user;
• provide confirmation that the notification message sent via a push notification was displayed on the user device of at least one member of the predefined group of emergency contacts;
• and
• periodically provide updates for the location of the wearable mobile device to the personal safety service server.