Personal safety and emergency services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017195865-A1
Application number	US-201615348531-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 10, 2016
Priority date	Oct 19, 2012
Publication date	Jul 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A safety event is determined as affecting a user based at least in part context data collected at a user device associated with the user. In some aspects, context data is detected from sensors on the client device, the context data describing a present context of the user. A deviation of the present context from a historical context is determined to be beyond a threshold. Determining that the deviation is beyond the threshold can be determined to correspond to a safety event potentially jeopardizing safety of the user. In some aspects, an action can be launched in response to determining the safety event.

First claim

1 - 117 . (canceled)

118 . At least one machine accessible storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed on a machine, cause the machine to:
identify an initiation of a priority call, wherein the priority call includes a telephonic component and a text-based component; identify a recipient device for the priority call; and cause the text-based component to be transmitted to the 21 recipient device in parallel with initiation of the telephonic component, wherein the telephonic component comprises a telephone call from a calling device to the recipient device, the text-based component is to be received and displayed at the recipient device in connection with receiving of the telephonic call at the recipient device, and the text-based component includes a message describing conditions affecting a user of the calling device.

119 . The storage medium of claim 118 , wherein the text-based message is communicated over a web-based messaging service to a corresponding application on the recipient device.

120 . The storage medium of claim 119 , wherein the text-based message includes a GCM message.

121 . The storage medium of claim 119 , wherein the text-based message includes an SMS message.

122 . The storage medium of claim 119 , wherein the text-based message is displayed substantially concurrently with an indication of the telephonic call at the recipient device.

123 . The storage medium of claim 118 , further comprising collecting context data from the calling device and causing the context data to be communicated to the recipient device.

124 . The storage medium of claim 123 , wherein the context data includes one or more of location context data, device context data, ambient context data, user context data, and security context data.

125 . The storage medium of claim 118 , wherein the priority call is initiated in a response to a user input at the calling device requesting the priority call.

126 . The storage medium of claim 118 , wherein the priority call is initiated without intervention of a user at the calling device and in response to a detection of a priority condition at the calling device.

127 . The storage medium of claim 126 , wherein the priority condition is determined automatically from context information detected at least in part at the calling device.

128 . The storage medium of claim 127 , wherein context information describes a current context of use of the calling device and the priority condition is determined based on a determination that the current context of use deviates from an expected context of use beyond a threshold.

129 . The storage medium of claim 126 , wherein content of the text-based message is selected automatically based on characteristics of the detected priority condition.

130 . The storage medium of claim 118 , wherein the recipient device is identified as corresponding to a particular emergency contact on a listing of emergency contacts associated with the calling device.

131 . The storage medium of claim 130 , wherein the particular emergency contact is automatically selected based on the conditions affecting the user.

132 . The storage medium of claim 118 , wherein the priority call overrides at least one of an existing call on the recipient device and a silent ringtone setting of the recipient device.

133 . The storage medium of claim 118 , wherein the priority call causes presentation of a ringtone or display at the recipient device corresponding to priority calls.

134 . A method comprising:
identifying an initiation of a priority call, wherein the priority call includes a telephonic component and a text-based component; identifying a recipient device for the priority call; and causing the text-based component to be transmitted to the recipient device in parallel with initiation of the telephonic component, wherein the telephonic component comprises a telephone call from a calling device to the recipient device, the text-based component is to be received and displayed at the recipient device in connection with receiving of the telephonic call at the recipient device, and the text-based component includes a message describing conditions affecting a user of the calling device.

135 . A system comprising:
at least one processor device; at least one memory element; and a personal safety engine, adapted when executed by the at least one processor device to:
identify an initiation of a priority call, wherein the priority call includes a telephonic component and a text-based component;
identify a recipient device for the priority call; and
cause the text-based component to be transmitted to the recipient device in parallel with initiation of the telephonic component, wherein the telephonic component comprises a telephone call from a calling device to the recipient device, the text-based component is to be received and displayed at the recipient device in connection with receiving of the telephonic call at the recipient device, and the text-based component includes a message describing conditions affecting a user of the calling device.

136 . The system of claim 135 , wherein at least a portion of the personal safety engine is hosted on the calling device.

137 . The system of claim 135 , wherein at least a portion of the personal safety engine is hosted on a server system external to the calling device.

Assignees

• Mcafee Inc

Inventors

• Nalluri Srikanth
• Kulkarni Dattatraya
• Sinha Raja
• Krishnapur Venkatasubrahmanyam
• Jain Yogesh
• Dhruw Kaushal Kumar
• Halder Kamlesh

Classifications

• H04W4/14

  Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD] · CPC title

• G06F16/951

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• H04W4/90

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

• G06Q50/265 Primary

  Personal security, identity or safety · CPC title

• H04W8/22

  Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities · CPC title