Wireless emergency alert notifications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10249174-B2
Application number	US-201514815410-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2015
Priority date	Jul 31, 2015
Publication date	Apr 2, 2019
Grant date	Apr 2, 2019

Abstract

An approach is described for sending alert messages and notifications to individual devices and in a format understandable by a user of the communication device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A safety alarm system that signals an emergency condition, comprising:
an internet notification server with a network interface;
a wireless station server configured to enable communication with wireless communication devices;
a database associated with the wireless station server; and
an alert message in a first language received at the network interface via internet, where the alert message results in another message being formatted for transmission to wireless communication devices and provides notice of the emergency condition in a second language,
wherein a selection of the wireless communication devices by the wireless station server occurs independent of the type of data in the alert message and the format of the alert message, where the second language is associated with selected wireless communication devices, and
wherein the database is configured to identify the wireless communication devices to receive the alert message or other message and to identify a language of the alert message or other message.

2. The safety alarm system of claim 1 ,
where the alert message is a text message and results in an audio message as the other message that is generated by a text-to-speech translation module.

3. The safety alarm system of claim 2 ,
where the audio message is changed from the first language to the second language by the multilingual speech translation module.

4. The safety alarm system of claim 1 ,
where the alert message is a text message having the first language and results in an audio message as the other message with the audio message having the second language.

5. The safety alarm system of claim 1 ,
where the notification severs is a cloud gateway sever and the other message is sent for receipt by a cloud push notify service.

6. The safety alarm system of claim 1 ,
wherein the other message is a digital audio message formatted for transmission by an emergency notification module for receipt by the wireless communication devices.

7. The safety alarm system of claim 1 ,
where the alert message is a digital audio message that results in a text message as the other message by the speech-to-text translation module.

8. The safety alarm system of claim 7 ,
where the text message is translated from a first language to a second language by a multilingual translation module.

9. The safety alarm system of claim 1 ,
where the alert message is a digital audio message in a first language that results in a text message in a second language as the other message.

10. The safety alarm system of claim 1 ,
where the notification server is a fire control panel and the communication device is another fire control panel.

11. A method for signal of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system, comprising:
coupling internet notification server at a network interface with a network;
receiving an alert message at the network interface via internet in a first language;
formatting another message for transmission to at least one wireless communication device in response to receipt of the alert message, where the other message provides notice of the emergency condition; and
selecting the at least one wireless communication device independent of the type of data in the alert message and the format of the alert message, where the other message is in a second language associated with the at least one wireless communication device; and
transmitting the other message to the at least one wireless communication device by a wireless station server,
wherein a database is associated with the wireless station server, the database being configured to identify the wireless communication devices to receive the alert message or other message and to identify a language of the alert message or other message.

12. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 11 , further comprising:
generating an audio message with a text-to-speech translation module in response to receipt of the alert message where the alert message is a text message.

13. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 12 , including changing the audio message from the first language to the second language by a multilingual speech translation module.

14. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 11 , further comprising:
converting the alert message that is a text message having the first language and results in an audio message as the other message, where the audio message has the second language.

15. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 11 , further comprising:
sending the other message for receipt by a cloud push notify service from the notification severs that is a cloud gateway severs.

16. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 11 , further comprising:
formatting the other message that is a digital audio message for transmission by an emergency notification module located at the notification server for receipt by communication devices.

17. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 11 , further comprising:
converting the alert message that is a digital audio message into a text message as the other message with a speech-to-text translation module.

18. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 17 , further comprising:
translating the text message from the first language to the second language with a multilingual translation module.

19. The method for signaling of an emergency condition in a safety alarm system of claim 11 , further comprising:
translating the alert message that is a digital audio message in the first language into a text message in the second language as the other message.

Assignees

• Siemens Industry Inc

Inventors

• El-Mankabady Emad
• Iasso Daniel S
• Limlaw Robert
• Perlak Lester K
• Baker George E

Classifications

• G06F40/40

  Processing or translation of natural language (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30) · CPC title

• G08B1/08

  using electric transmission {; transformation of alarm signals to electrical signals from a different medium, e.g. transmission of an electric alarm signal upon detection of an audible alarm signal} · CPC title

• G10L13/00

  Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems · CPC title

• G08B17/00

  Fire alarms; Alarms responsive to explosion · CPC title

• G08B25/10 Primary

  using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)} · CPC title