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US 2017/0318419 A1Published application
Notification and communication system using geofencing to identify members of a community
AssigneeIn-Telligent Properties Inc.
InventorAllan C. SUTHERLAND
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Abstract
A system to communicate with a community of people determined by a geofencing system to be physically present in a geographic region, wherein the system overrides any alert-inhibiting state in the people's smart phones to deliver audio or visual alerts in emergency situations.
Claims21
A system to communicate with members of a community, comprising:
- (a) a geofencing system operating in a geographic region for:
- (i) determining the location of a plurality of individuals based upon the location of their smart devices, and
- (ii) adding the individuals that are determined to be physically present in the geographic region to a community;
- (b) a subscription system operating on the smart devices for adding individuals that are not determined to be physically present in the geographic region to the community;
- (c) a safety alert system operating on the smart devices for transmitting safety alerts to the members of the community, by:
- (i) communicating with the smart devices to determine their alert-receiving state, and then either:
- (1) requesting to override any alert inhibiting state, and then overriding the alert-inhibiting state with the user's permission to ensure that the smart device is alert-enabled, or
- (2) automatically overriding any alert inhibiting state to ensure that the smart device is alert-enabled, and
- (ii) transmitting the safety alert to the smart device;
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- (d) a geographic region-specific communication system operating on the smart devices for sending geographic region-specific messages from the property management to the members of the community.
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A method of communicating with members of a community, comprising:
- (a) using a geofencing system to determine which individuals are physically present in a geographic region based upon the location of their smart devices;
- (b) adding the individuals that have been determined to be physically present in the geographic region by the geofencing system to a community;
- (c) permitting individuals that are not physically present on the geographic region to subscribe to join the community;
- (d) determining the alert-receiving state of each of the individuals' smart devices, and then overriding any alert-inhibiting state of the smart devices to ensure that the smart devices are alert-enabled, and then
- (e) transmitting a safety alert to each of the smart devices;
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- (f) transmitting geographic region-specific messages to the smart devices.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.