US 2014/0357215 A1 · METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ALLOW A PSAP TO DERIVE USEFUL INFORMATION FROM ACCELEROMETER DATA TRANSMITTED BY A CALLER'S DEVICE

Abstract

A Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) is configured to receive a description of detected movement associated with one or more inertial sensors of a communication device. The description of the detected movement may then be analyzed to determine a likelihood of injury associated with the movement, whether or not the user associated with the communication device is experiencing abnormal neuromuscular activity, and/or whether the user is outside a range of the communication device such that the user is unlikely to hear audio information originating from the communication device. The PSAP may additionally or alternatively utilize the description of the movement information to assist and/or provide an advisory recommendation in the decision of which, if any first responder resources should be dispatched; the recommendation may include which resources and at what priority the resources should be dispatched.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, at a communication server of a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), inertial sensor data from one or more inertial sensors associated with a communication device;
providing the inertial sensor data to a movement analysis module;
analyzing, using at least the movement analysis module, the inertial sensor data to obtain movement information for the communication device;
based on the obtained movement information, determining one or more of:
(i) a movement of the communication device with respect to an origin point of the communication device;
(ii) a mechanism of injury experienced by a user associated with the communication device and an injury associated with the mechanism of injury;
and (iii) whether the movement information corresponds to abnormal neuromuscular activity experienced by the user;
and
providing the movement information and the determination at least to a computer associated with the PSAP.

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A non-transitory computer readable information storage medium having stored thereon instructions that cause a computing system to execute a method comprising:

receiving, at a communication server of a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), inertial sensor data from one or more inertial sensors associated with a communication device;
providing the inertial sensor data to a movement analysis module;
analyzing, using at least the movement analysis module, the inertial sensor data to obtain movement information for the communication device;
based on the obtained movement information, determining one or more of:
(i) a movement of the communication device with respect to an origin point of the communication device;
(ii) a mechanism of injury experienced by a user associated with the communication device and an injury associated with the mechanism of injury;
and (iii) whether the movement information corresponds to abnormal neuromuscular activity experienced by the user;
and
providing the movement information and the determination at least to a computer associated with the PSAP.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus to allow a psap to derive useful information from accelerometer data transmitted by a caller's device

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Method and apparatus to allow a psap to derive useful information from accelerometer data transmitted by a caller's device

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