Emergency information access on portable electronic devices
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorSteven Charles Michalske
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Abstract
Improved techniques for facilitating emergency access to one or more contacts stored on a portable electronic device are disclosed. One or more contacts on the portable electronic device are designated as emergency contacts. While the portable electronic device is password-locked, a request to display the one or more emergency contacts on the password-locked portable electronic device is received. Without requiring a password, the one or more emergency contacts are displayed on the portable electronic device.
Claims20
A method for displaying emergency contacts in an emergency call screen, the method comprising:
- by a computing device that is password-locked:
- receiving a request to enter the emergency call screen that includes an emergency contact icon, an emergency call icon, and a keypad configured for initiating an emergency phone call;
- retrieving one or more emergency contacts from a list of contacts;
- displaying, within the emergency call screen, the emergency contact icon, wherein the emergency contact icon includes a name for an emergency contact, but does not include a phone number for the emergency contact;
- and
- when the emergency call icon is selected:
- displaying a status of an emergency call.
A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor in a computing device cause the computing device to perform the steps of:
- when the computing device is password-locked:
- receiving a request to enter an emergency call screen that includes an emergency contact icon, an emergency call icon, and a keypad configured for initiating an emergency phone call;
- retrieving one or more emergency contacts from a list of contacts;
- displaying, within the emergency call screen, the emergency contact icon, wherein the emergency contact icon includes a name for an emergency contact, but does not include a phone number for the emergency contact;
- and
- when the emergency call icon is selected:
- displaying a status of an emergency call.
A computing device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the computing device to perform the steps of:
- when the computing device is password-locked:
- receiving a request to enter an emergency call screen that includes an emergency contact icon, an emergency call icon, and a keypad configured for dialing an emergency phone call;
- retrieving one or more emergency contacts from a list of contacts;
- displaying the emergency contact icon, wherein the emergency contact icon includes a user-created identifier associated with a name field that is different than a phone number field for a corresponding emergency contact, and does not include a phone number;
- and
- when the emergency call icon is selected:
- displaying a status of an emergency call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.