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US 10,701,542 B2Granted
Social media content for emergency management
AssigneeRapidsos, Inc.
InventorsMichael John Martin, Nicholas Edward Horelik, Reinhard Ekl, Michelle Cahn, John Paul Lawrence
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Abstract
A method for providing an alternate communication pathway for emergency data to an emergency service provider (ESP) is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more processors of said emergency assistance system (EAS) implement the method for using social media content to detect and facilitate emergency communications.
Claims29
A method for providing an alternate communication pathway for emergency data to an emergency service provider (ESP), the method comprising:
- (a) gathering, by one or more processors of an emergency assistance system (EAS), one or more web content comprising an emergency indication published on a social media network by one or more users, wherein said one or more web content comprises the emergency data;
- (b) distilling, by the one or more processors, the emergency data into an emergency data set associated with at least one emergency, wherein the emergency data set comprises at least one location of the at least one emergency;
- (c) retrieving, by the one or more processors, at least one geofence associated with the ESP from one or more geofence databases, wherein the at least one geofence encloses one or more geographical regions within the jurisdiction of the ESP;
- (d) identifying the ESP as having authorization to receive emergency data for at least a subset of the at least one emergency based on a determination that at least a subset of the at least one location is within the at least one geofence associated with the ESP;
- (e) generating, by the one or more processors, a processed emergency feed comprising two or more emergency entries, wherein an emergency entry of said two or more emergency entries comprises at least a subset of the emergency data set associated with the at least one emergency having a location within the at least one geofence;
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- providing, by the one or more processors, the processed emergency feed comprising the two or more emergency entries for display at the ESP.
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An emergency assistance system (EAS) for providing an alternate communication pathway for emergency data to an emergency service provider (ESP), the system comprising one or more processors for:
- (a) gathering, by one or more processors of said emergency assistance system (EAS), one or more web content comprising an emergency indication published on a social media network by one or more users, wherein said one or more web content comprises the emergency data;
- (b) distilling, by the one or more processors, the emergency data into an emergency data set associated with at least one emergency, wherein the emergency data set comprises at least one location of the at least one emergency;
- (c) retrieving, by the one or more processors, at least one geofence associated with the ESP from one or more geofence databases, wherein the at least one geofence encloses one or more geographical regions within the jurisdiction of the ESP;
- (d) identifying the ESP as having authorization to receive emergency data for at least a subset of the at least one emergency based on a determination that at least a subset of the at least one location is within the at least one geofence associated with the ESP;
- (e) generating, by the one or more processors, a processed emergency feed comprising two or more emergency entries, wherein an emergency entry of said two or more emergency entries comprises at least a subset of the emergency data set associated with the at least one emergency having a location within the at least one geofence;
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- providing, by the one or more processors, the processed emergency feed comprising the two or more emergency entries for display at the ESP.
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Non-transitory computer-readable storage media encoded with a computer program including instructions executable by a processor to create a server application comprising:
- (a) a social media monitoring module for gathering one or more web content comprising an emergency indication published on a social media network by one or more users, wherein said one or more web content comprises the emergency data;
- (b) a distilling module for distilling the emergency data into an emergency data set associated with at least one emergency, wherein the emergency data set comprises at least one location of the at least one emergency;
- (c) a geofencing module retrieving at least one geofence associated with an ESP from one or more geofence databases, wherein the at least one geofence encloses one or more geographical regions within the jurisdiction of the ESP;
- (d) an software module identifying the ESP as having authorization to receive emergency data for at least a subset of the at least one emergency based on a determination that at least a subset of the at least one location is within the at least one geofence associated with the ESP;
- (e) an emergency feed module for generating a processed emergency feed comprising two or more emergency entries, wherein an emergency entry of said two or more emergency entries comprises at least a subset of the emergency data set associated with the at least one emergency having a location within the at least one geofence;
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- a display module for providing the processed emergency feed comprising the two or more emergency entries for display at the ESP.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.