Emergency alert system and program for portable devices
AssigneeVentuno Invest S.R.L.
InventorLuca LEONESSI
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Abstract
A system and software application that communicates with a central service for alerting a security service that help is needed, wherein an application running on a smart phone causes identity information, location information, and an emergency alert to be transmitted to an emergency response facility either by a single button press or a delayed count-down, or else, in the even that a data network is unavailable, presents an interface to directly dial an emergency response service with a single button press.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer readable medium having software recorded thereon configured to cause a CPU of a computer device to perform the steps of:
- displaying, on a display device of the device, a first control and a second control,
- the first control, upon activation by a user, causing the device to send location information, acquired from a geo-location device built-in to the computer device, and an emergency alert to an emergency response server associated with an emergency response center via a communications interface of the computer device in connection with a communications network to which the emergency response server is capable of communicating,
- the second control, upon activation by the user, causing the device to
- send location information acquired from the geo-location device, and a pre-alarm alert, to the emergency response server via the communications interface,
- query the user for a time delay value,
- upon receiving the time delay value, initiate a count-down operation in accordance with the time delay value, and display a cancel control on the display device,
- in the event that the cancel control is activated by the user prior to expiration of the count-down, cancel the count-down operation, and
- in the event that the cancel control is not activated prior to the expiration of the count-down, send an emergency alert to the emergency response server.
A method for communicating emergency information between a client computing device and a server computing device associated with an emergency response center, the client device and the server device being in connection with each other over a communications network, the method comprising:
- displaying, on a display device of the client device, a first control and a second control;
- causing, upon activation by a user of the first control, the client device to send location information acquired from a geo-location device built-in to the client device, and an emergency alert, to the server device via a communications interface of the client device in connection with the communications network to which the server device is capable of communicating;
- causing, upon activation by the user of the second control, the client device to
- send location information acquired from the geo-location device, and pre-alarm alert, to the server device via the communications interface,
- query the user for a time delay value,
- upon receiving the time delay value, initiate a count-down operation in accordance with the time delay value and display a cancel control on the display device,
- in the event that the cancel control is activated by the user prior to expiration of the count-down, canceling the count-down operation, and
- in the event that the cancel control is not activated prior to the expiration of the count-down, sending an emergency alert to the server device.
A system for communicating emergency information form a user to an emergency response center, comprising:
- a server computing device associated with the emergency response center;
- a client computing device associated with an emergency response center;
- a communications network capable of transmitting messages between the server device and the client device;
- wherein each of the server device and the client device comprise a CPU and a memory,
- wherein the client device further comprises an interactive display device and one or more communications interfaces capable of communicating with each of a telephone network, a geo-location network, and a data network, and
- wherein the client device has software encoded on a non-transient encoding medium readable by the client device sufficient to cause the client device to display, on the display device, a first control and a second control,
- the first control, upon activation by a user, causing the client device to send location information, acquired from the geo-location network, and an emergency alert to server device via the data network,
- the second control, upon activation by the user, causing the client device to
- send location information acquired from the geo-location network, and a pre-alarm alert, to the server device via the data network,
- query the user for a time delay value,
- upon receiving the time delay value, initiate a count-down operation in accordance with the time delay value, and display a cancel control on the display device,
- in the event that the cancel control is activated by the user prior to expiration of the count-down, cancel the count-down operation, and
- in the event that the cancel control is not activated prior to the expiration of the count-down, send an emergency alert to the server device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.