# US 10,872,518 B2 · Alerthub system with two touch badge

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- Number: US 10,872,518 B2
- Document ID: US10872518B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/751,290
- Filed: 2020-01-24
- Published: 2020-05-21
- Granted: 2020-12-22
- Earliest claimed: 2017-11-29
- Assignees: Alertpoint, LLC
- Applicants: Alertpoint, LLC
- Inventors: David Gordon Allen
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10872518B2

## CPC

- G08B 25/016: {Personal emergency signalling and security systems (emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12)}
- G08B 5/36: using visible light sources
- G08B 7/06: using electric transmission {, e.g. involving audible and visible signalling through the use of sound and light sources}
- G08B 25/004: {Alarm propagated along alternative communication path or using alternative communication medium according to a hierarchy of available ways to communicate, e.g. if Wi-Fi® not available use GSM}
- 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}
- G08B 25/12: Manually actuated calamity alarm transmitting arrangements {emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm, activators, e.g. details of alarm push buttons mounted on an infrastructure}
- H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services
- H04W 4/33: for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
- H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
- H04W 4/90: Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
- H04W 76/50: for emergency connections
- H04W 88/16: Gateway arrangements
- G08B 13/1965: {the vehicle being an aircraft}
- G08B 13/19697: {Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves}
- G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

An alert communication device, an alert activation device, and an alert management system are provided. The alert management system may include one or more alert communication devices communicatively coupled to one or more other alert communication devices and configured to provide one or more of a visual alert and an audio alert and one or more alert activation devices communicatively coupled to at least one alert communication device of the one or more alert communication devices.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An alert communication device comprising:
a first transceiver configured to communicatively couple the alert communication device with one or more other alert communication devices via a first communication path;
a second transceiver configured to communicatively couple the alert communication device with the one or more other alert communication devices via a second communication path;
a third transceiver configured to communicatively couple the alert communication device with one or more alert activation devices via a third communication path; and
one or more of:
a visual alert system, wherein the visual alert system includes a plurality of electronically-controlled lights configured to provide a plurality of visual alerts, and
an audio alert system
wherein the alert communication device is configured to:
receive an alert signal from a first alert activation device of the one or more alert activation devices; and
transmit the alert signal to the one or more other alert communication devices via the first communication path and wherein the alert communication device is configured to indicate at least a portion of an access path between a predefined first location and a location of the first alert activation device in response to receiving the alert signal from the first alert activation device, wherein the access path is depicted by the plurality of electronically-controlled lights.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The alert communication device of claim 1, further comprising:
a camera system.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The alert communication device of claim 1, wherein the alert communication device is configured to:
determine that the first communication path is inaccessible; and
transmit the alert signal to the one or more alert communication devices via the second communication path in response to determining that the first communication path is inaccessible.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The alert communication device of claim 1, wherein the alert communication device is configured to establish a communication channel between two or more client devices via one or more of the first communication path and the second communication path.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The alert communication device of claim 1, wherein the third transceiver is a Bluetooth® Low Energy transceiver configured to determine the location of the one or more alert activation devices relative to the alert communication device.

### Claim 6

An alert activation device comprising:
a transceiver configured to communicatively couple the alert activation device to at least one alert communication device; and
two or more activation buttons communicatively coupled to the transceiver;
wherein the alert activation device is configured to transmit an alert signal via the transceiver in response to a user engaging at least one of the two or more alert activation buttons, wherein a type of alert signal transmitted by the transceiver is based upon, at least in part, a plurality of alert activation button press configurations, wherein the at least one alert communication device is configured to indicate at least a portion of an access path between a predefined first location and the location of the alert activation device when transmitting the alert signal using a visual alert system that includes a plurality of electronically-controlled lights configured to provide a plurality of visual alerts along the access path.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The alert activation device of claim 6, wherein the alert activation device is a wearable alert activation device.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The alert activation device of claim 7, wherein the alert activation device is configured to be affixed to an identification badge.

### Claim 9 (depends on 6)

The alert activation device of claim 6, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit a location of the alert activation device when transmitting the alert signal.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The alert activation device of claim 9, wherein the transceiver is a Bluetooth® Low Energy transceiver.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

The alert activation device of claim 9, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit a general alert signal when a first button of the two or more buttons is engaged and is configured to transmit a medical alert signal when a second button of the two or more buttons is engaged.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The alert activation device of claim 11, wherein the at least one alert communication device is configured to indicate at least a portion of an access path between a predefined first location and the location of the alert activation device when transmitting the medical alert signal.

### Claim 13

A alert management system comprising:
one or more alert communication devices communicatively coupled to one or more other alert communication devices and configured to provide one or more of a visual alert and an audio alert; and
one or more alert activation devices communicatively coupled to at least one alert communication device of the one or more alert communication devices;
wherein the alert management system is configured to:
receive, at the one or more alert communication devices, an alert signal from a first alert activation device of the one or more alert activation devices; and
indicate, via the one or more alert communication devices, an access path between a predefined first location and a location of the first alert activation device in response to receiving the alert signal from the first alert activation device, wherein the one or more alert communication devices are configured to indicate at least a portion of the access path between a predefined first location and the location of the alert activation device when transmitting the alert signal using a visual alert system that includes a plurality of electronically-controlled lights configured to provide a plurality of visual alerts along the access path.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The alert management system of claim 13, further comprising:
one or more alert gateways,
wherein the one or more alert communication devices are communicatively coupled to the one or more alert gateways.

### Claim 15 (depends on 13)

The alert management system of claim 13, wherein the one or more alert communication devices include a plurality of alert communication devices and are configured to communicatively couple the alert communication device with one or more other alert communication devices of the plurality of alert communication devices via a first communication path.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The alert management system of claim 15, wherein the one or more alert communication devices are configured to communicatively couple the alert communication device with the one or more other alert communication devices of the plurality of alert communication devices via a second communication path.