Personal safety system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10349227-B2
Application number	US-201514929952-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 2, 2015
Priority date	Nov 2, 2015
Publication date	Jul 9, 2019
Grant date	Jul 9, 2019

Abstract

Various systems and methods for a personal safety system are described herein. A personal safety system includes an alert detection module to receive, at a device, input indicating an alert event; and a communication module to: transmit information regarding the alert event to a cloud service; and broadcast wireless network information of a wireless environment around the device, obtained by the device, to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A personal safety system, the system comprising:
a wireless access point device including:
an alert detection circuit to:
receive, at the wireless access point device, input indicating an alert event, wherein the input is received from a remote mobile user device, the input initiated by a user of the remote mobile user device; and

a communication circuit to, in response to receiving input indicating an alert event, to:
obtain wireless network information of a wireless environment around the wireless access point device, wherein the wireless network information includes wireless access point devices and mobile user devices;
generate a message including the wireless network information;
transmit the message and the alert event to a cloud service; and
broadcast, from the wireless access point device to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment, the wireless network information of the wireless environment around the wireless access point device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein to transmit information regarding the alert event, the communication circuit is to:
transmit an identity of a user of the remote mobile user device; and
transmit information about the wireless environment around the remote mobile user device.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein to transmit information regarding the alert, the communication circuit is to encrypt the information before transmitting.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein to transmit information about the wireless environment, the communication circuit is to transmit wireless signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein to transmit information about the wireless environment, the communication circuit is to transmit media access control (MAC) addresses of devices in the wireless environment.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wireless network information comprises received signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment around the wireless access point device.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wireless network information comprises channel state information of devices in the wireless environment around the wireless access point device.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the communication circuit is to receive additional wireless network information from at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the additional wireless network information comprises received signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment around the least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

10. The system of claim 8 , further comprising a wireless analysis circuit to use the additional wireless network information from the at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment along with the wireless network information obtained by the wireless access point device to determine a location of the at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein to determine the location, the wireless analysis circuit is to use a free space loss calculation to determine distances between pairs of devices in the wireless environment and using trilateration techniques to determine position from the distances between the pairs of devices.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the remote mobile user device is associated with a responder classification.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the responder classification is a professional responder, a helper, or a predesignated responder.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the communication circuit is to receive instructions from the cloud service, the instructions based on the responder classification.

15. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:
receive, at a wireless access point device, input indicating an alert event, the input received from a remote mobile user device, the input initiated by a user of the remote mobile user device; and
in response to receiving input indicating an alert event:
obtain wireless network information of a wireless environment around the wireless access point device, wherein the wireless network information includes wireless access point devices and mobile user devices;
generate a message including the wireless network information;
transmit the message and the alert event to a cloud service; and
broadcast, from the wireless access point device to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment, the wireless network information of the wireless environment around the wireless access point device.

16. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the instructions to transmit information regarding the alert event comprise instructions to:
transmit an identity of a user of the remote mobile user device; and
transmit information about the wireless environment around the remote mobile user device.

17. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions to transmit information about the wireless environment comprise instructions to transmit wireless signal strengths of devices in the wireless environment.

18. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the instructions to transmit information about the wireless environment comprise instructions to transmit media access control (MAC) addresses of devices in the wireless environment.

19. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the wireless network information comprises channel state information of devices in the wireless environment around the wireless access point device.

20. A method of using a personal safety system, the method comprising:
receiving, at a wireless access point device, input indicating an alert event, wherein the input is received from a remote mobile user device, and initiated by a user of the remote mobile user device; and
in response to receiving input indicating an alert event:
obtaining wireless network information of a wireless environment around the wireless access point device, wherein the wireless network information includes wireless access point devices and mobile user devices;
generating a message including the wireless network information;
transmitting the message and the alert event to a cloud service; and
broadcasting, from the wireless access point device to a plurality of devices in the wireless environment, the wireless network information of the wireless environment around the wireless access point device.

21. The method of claim 20 , further comprising receiving additional wireless network information from at least one of the plurality of devices in the wireless environment.

22. The system of claim 1 , wherein the alert event of the input comprises a crime, a natural disaster, or an emergency situation.

23. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the alert event comprises a crime, a natural disaster, or an emergency situation.

24. The method of claim 20 , wherein the alert event comprises a crime, a natural disaster, or an emergency situation.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Saxena Paritosh
• Poisner David I
• Triantafillou Nicholas
• Baron Casey

Classifications

• H04W4/90

  Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] · CPC title

• H04W4/60

  Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits · CPC title

• H04W4/06 Primary

  Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services · CPC title

• H04W4/023 Primary

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title