Community safety, security, health communication and emergency notification system providing emergency source tracking

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11985268-B2
Application number	US-202217570280-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 6, 2022
Priority date	Mar 6, 2018
Publication date	May 14, 2024
Grant date	May 14, 2024

Abstract

A community safety system (CSS) including a notification management entity (NME) comprising servers, the NME communicatively coupled to multiple user devices and one or more administrator devices (collectively, registered user devices). The CSS includes a plurality of registered users, wherein registered users may share their own location, as well as sighting information about the location of a source of an emergency (e.g. a perpetrator) with the NME of the CSS. The NME may generate and provide display objects on a visualization interface of one or more users mobile devices displaying a map, the display objects indicative of user locations and/or emergency source location in the map displayed (e.g., in accordance with the map coordinate system).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the system to:
identify a number associated with a mobile computing device from which an incoming short message service (SMS) was sent;
determine if the number identified is associated with a user;
in response to determining the number is associated with the user, open a communication channel between the user and at least one administrator, wherein the communication channel allows the at least one administrator to communicate directly with the user and allows the user to transmit additional information directly to the at least one administrator;
obtain a user location coordinate associated with the user responsive to the user selecting a location sharing short link, the short link triggered by the user's reply to a status notification;
obtain emergency source sighting information from the mobile computing device, the emergency source sighting information indicative of a location of an emergency source;
determine an emergency source location based on the user location coordinate and the emergency source sighting information; and
provide an emergency source display object on a map visualization interface, the emergency source display object provided in a position within the map visualization interface that corresponds to the determined emergency source location.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the map visualization interface is displayed on an emergency responder's computing device.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the emergency source display object corresponds to an emergency source location where the emergency source was first sighted.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein emergency source sighting information comprises an approximated distance between the user and the emergency source sighted.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein emergency source sighting information further comprises an approximated direction from the user to the emergency source sighted.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the emergency source sighting information is obtained based on a user response to a message prompt, the message prompt providing the user with at least one pre-generated relative location options for selection.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the emergency source sighting information comprises at least one of: a user inputted name of a street near which the emergency source was observed, a user approximated address near which the emergency source was observed, a user inputted building name within which the emergency source was observed, a user inputted building name near which the emergency source was observed.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the emergency source sighting information comprises at least one of: an indication as to whether or not a user is currently observing the emergency source, an approximated time at which the user observed the emergency source, an approximated time at which the user last observed the emergency source, an approximated amount of time elapsed since the user observed the emergency source, a user approximated amount of time elapsed since the user last observed the emergency source, a time-stamp associated with a message indicating that the user observed the emergency source.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further stores machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the system to:
adjust a visual feature of the emergency source display object based on an approximated amount of time elapsed since a user from whom the emergency source sighting information was obtained last observed the emergency source at the determined emergency source location.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further stores machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the system to:
adjust a visual feature of the emergency source display objects based on an approximated amount of time elapsed since a user from whom the emergency source sighting information was obtained last observed the emergency source at the determined emergency source location.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further stores machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the system to:
notify one or more additional administrators and one or more additional registered users of the communication channel;
provide the additional administrators and the additional registered users with an access link and an authentication key to access the communication channel;
in response of a recipient administrator's or a recipient registered user's selection of the access link, prompt the recipient administrator or the recipient registered user to enter the provided authentication key; and
in response to determining the provided authentication key has been entered, join the recipient administrator or the recipient registered user into the communication channel.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further stores machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the system to:
monitor activity occurring over the communication channel;
determine if the activity meets a non-utilization criteria, wherein the non-utilization criteria comprises no communication over the communication channel for a duration of time over a predefined period; and
in response to determining the monitored activity meets a non-utilization criteria, close the communication channel.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further stores machine-readable instructions which, when exectued by a processor, cause the system to send a broadcast notification to a plurality of registered users associated with a user category, wherein the user category comprises a location, an organization, and a type.

14. A method comprising:
identifying a number associated with a mobile computing device from which an incoming short message service (SMS) was sent;
determining if the number identified is associated with a user;
in response to determining the number is associated with the user, open a communication channel between the user and at least one administrator, wherein the communication channel allows the at least one administrator to communicate directly with the user and allows the user to transmit additional information directly to the at least one administrator;
obtaining a user location coordinate associated with the user responsive to the user selecting a location sharing short link, the short link triggered by the user's reply to a status notification;
obtaining emergency source sighting information from the mobile computing device, the emergency source sighting information indicative of a location of an emergency source;
determining an emergency source location based on the user location coordinate and the emergency source sighting information; and
providing an emergency source display object on a map visualization interface, the emergency source display object provided in a position within the map visualization interface that corresponds to the determined emergency source location.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the map visualization interface is displayed on an emergency responder's computing device.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the emergency source display object corresponds to an emergency source location where the emergency source was first sighted.

Assignees

• Titan Health & Security Tech Inc

Inventors

• Merjanian Vic A
• Khalili Ryan
• Juarez Eduardo
• Merjanian Ed
• Nasser Serene
• Wallengren Daniel

Classifications

• H04M1/72424 Primary

  with manual activation of emergency-service functions · CPC title

• G08B21/0269 Primary

  System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS · CPC title

• G08B25/016

  Personal emergency signalling and security systems (emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12) · CPC title

• G08B25/08

  using communication transmission lines {(G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence)} · CPC title

• G08B25/12

  Manually actuated calamity alarm transmitting arrangements {emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm, activators, e.g. details of alarm push buttons mounted on an infrastructure} · CPC title