# US 11,451,948 B2 · Medical alert application

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- Number: US 11,451,948 B2
- Document ID: US11451948B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/960,065
- Filed: 2019-01-04
- Published: 2021-02-25
- Granted: 2022-09-20
- Earliest claimed: 2018-01-04
- Assignees: Jeffery Les Hardy
- Applicants: Jeffery Les Hardy
- Inventors: Jeffery Les Hardy
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11451948B2

## CPC

- G16H 40/67: for remote operation
- H04W 4/90: Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
- G10L 13/00: Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
- G16H 10/60: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
- G16H 80/00: ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
- H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information
- H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services
- G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING

## Abstract

A mobile application designed to operate on a mobile device. The user, through a user interface, inputs the drug being taken, and activates a start input. This begins a timer that runs down from a predetermined amount of time. If the user does not activate a stop input before the timer runs out of time, an alert is generated. This alert may be displayed on the user interface. In addition, emergency personnel are contacted. Information regarding the user, the drug taken, and the location of the mobile device may be transmitted to the emergency personnel so that medical assistance may be provided.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for alerting emergency personnel in the event of medical distress by a user, the method comprising:
providing a mobile application for use on a mobile device, the mobile application configured to provide a user interface;
initializing, by the user, of the mobile application on the mobile device;
recording, by the mobile application, of a location of the user and a drug taken by the user;
initiating, by the user, a timer on the user interface with a predetermined amount of time;
upon the timer reaching the predetermined amount of time without the user interface receiving any further input from the user or from otherwise external to the mobile device, transmitting, by the mobile application, a first message to a remote server, the first message comprising the location of the user and the drug taken;
converting, by the remote server, the first message into an audio message using a text-to-voice converter;
contacting, by the remote server, a 9-1-1 dispatcher; and
transmitting the audio message to the 9-1-1 dispatcher, wherein transmitting the audio message to the 9-1-1 dispatcher comprises continually repeating the audio message.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the recording, by the mobile application, of the location of the user and the drug taken by the user further comprises recording of a name of the user and a current time.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the location of the user may be determined by a location detection sensor located on the mobile device.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The method of claim 3, wherein the location detection sensor is a Global Positioning System sensor.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of contacting, by the 9-1-1 dispatcher, the user by telephone prior to dispatching emergency personnel to the location of the user.