System and method of managing personal security
OwnerGregory Musumanoinventor
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Abstract
A method of managing personal security allows a portable computing device to provide a user with a variety of automated security detection and responses. The portable computing device uses integrated hardware to assess an emergency situation from spoken distress cues, audible danger cues, medical distress cues, physical trauma cues, and manually-inputted cues. The portable computing device also provides the user with a variety of responses to the emergency situation, which include a contacting-help response, a supplemental-help response, a communal-help response, an immediate alarm response, a delayed alarm response, an informing response, an increasing-visibility response, and a decreasing-visibility response.
Claims17
A method of managing personal security, the method comprises the steps of:
- (A) providing a plurality of emergency profiles managed by a portable computing device, and providing an immediate emergency profile as one of the plurality of emergency profiles, wherein the immediate emergency profile includes a plurality of physical trauma cues respectively corresponding to external forces applied on a user of the portable computer and wherein the portable computing device includes at least one inertial sensor;
- (B) providing a plurality of emergency responses managed by the portable computing device, wherein each emergency profile is associated with at least one corresponding response from the plurality of emergency responses, and providing an immediate alarm response as one of the plurality of emergency responses, wherein the immediate alarm response includes a recorded alarm, and wherein the recorded alarm is either human-hearable, canine-hearable, visual, or a combination thereof;
- (C) identifying at least one currently-occurring profile with the portable computing device, wherein the currently-occurring profile is any profile from the plurality of emergency profiles, prompting to activate the immediate emergency profile with the portable computing device, and designating the currently-occurring profile as the immediate emergency profile with the portable computing device, if the immediate emergency profile is selectively activated through the portable computing device, and receiving inertial input data through the inertial sensor, and comparing the inertial input data to each physical trauma cue with the portable computing device in order to distinguish physical trauma ques from normal external forces applied to the user by identifying a matching cue from the plurality of physical trauma cues, and designating the currently-occurring profile as the immediate emergency profile with the portable computing device, if the matching cue is identified from the plurality of physical trauma cues;
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- (D) executing the corresponding response of the currently-occurring profile with the portable computing device, and outputting the recorded alarm with the portable computing device, if the immediate alarm response is the corresponding response of the currently-occurring profile.
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