Outbound sms notifications to emergency callers
AssigneeRapidDeploy, Inc.
InventorsReinhard Ekl, Steven Raucher
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Abstract
An emergency system for sending outbound messages to emergency callers receives data signals related to emergency calls that have been answered at a public safety answering point (PSAP) and data signals related to emergency calls that have not been answered. A user of the emergency system can select a geographic area, e.g., an area with a high volume of unanswered calls, and configure a message to be sent to the phone numbers associated with unanswered emergency calls within the geographic area.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a first data signal comprising a first location and a first phone number and a second data signal comprising a second location and a second phone number;
- receiving data defining a geographic region and a message associated with the geographic region;
- determining that the first location and the second location are inside the geographic region;
- determining that the first data signal corresponds to an unanswered emergency call and the second data signal corresponds to an answered emergency call;
- and
- transmitting the message to the first phone number associated with the first data signal, the first data signal corresponding to the unanswered emergency call and comprising the first location inside the geographic region;
- wherein the message is not transmitted to the second phone number based on the determination that the second data signal corresponds to the answered emergency call.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive a first data signal comprising a first location and a first phone number and a second data signal comprising a second location and a second phone number;
- receive data defining a geographic region and a message associated with the geographic region;
- determine that the first location and the second location are inside the geographic region;
- determine that the first data signal corresponds to an unanswered emergency call and the second data signal corresponds to an answered emergency call;
- and
- transmit the message to the first phone number associated with the first data signal, the first data signal corresponding to the unanswered emergency call and comprising the first location inside the geographic region;
- wherein the message is not transmitted to the second phone number based on the determination that the second data signal corresponds to the answered emergency call.
An emergency system comprising:
- a data ingestion module to receive a first data signal comprising a first location and a first phone number and a second data signal comprising a second location and a second phone number;
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- a messaging interface to:
- receive data defining a geographic region and a message associated with the geographic region;
- determine that the first location and the second location are inside the geographic region;
- determine that the first data signal corresponds to an unanswered emergency call and the second data signal corresponds to an answered emergency call;
- and
- transmit the message to the first phone number associated with the first data signal, the first data signal corresponding to the unanswered emergency call and comprising the first location inside the geographic region, the message being transmitted while the unanswered emergency call is on hold;
- wherein the message is not transmitted to the second phone number based on the determination that the second data signal corresponds to the answered emergency call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.