Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
455521000 | Emergency dispatch or response | 29 |
20080220801 | Emergency Communications System - A communication system and method is provided for handling emergency situations wherein complex public safety radio systems can be used to directly communicate with normally incompatible radio systems used by organizations such as schools, hospital, and other facilities. The system includes a radio communication bridge that is selectively activated by emergency personnel to contact selected organizations. A communication network, such as a local area network, can be used to activate and deactivate the bridge. Computer software or firmware installed at various communication endpoints, emergency responder locations, and at an emergency call center is used to facilitate functionality of the system to include emergency notifications, dissemination of information associated with a particular emergency, and the status of the system to include activation and deactivation of the radio bridge. | 09-11-2008 |
20090098898 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING PANIC MESSAGES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Mobile nodes of a wireless network route messages from one node to another. At least one node has a user input device, such as a button, that may be activated to indicate an emergency or other event in which the immediate attention and/or assistance of users of other nodes is needed or desired. Logic senses a panic condition based on the user input device and transmits a panic message to alert users of other nodes. At least one of the nodes provides an alarm that indicates a current location of the node that originally transmitted the panic message thereby assisting a user in finding such node, referred to as the “panicking node.” | 04-16-2009 |
20090186647 | Handheld computer for emergency responders - A compact handheld notebook computer using flash memory to store, retrieve and display information needed by emergency responders is designed for prolonged use under severe conditions and utilizes an electrophoretic display to conserve energy and provide a high resolution display more readable than LCD displays. | 07-23-2009 |
20100144383 | MANAGING AND MONITORING EMERGENCY SERVICES SECTOR RESOURCES - A system for monitoring and managing emergency services sector resources includes a wireless communications device configured to establish a wireless network, a plurality of wireless nodes wirelessly connected to the wireless network, a user application, a message management and routing system configured to facilitate communications between the wireless communication device and the user application, and a user device configured to display information from the user application. Each wireless node of the plurality of wireless nodes is associated with an emergency services sector resource, and is configured to communicate information regarding the emergency services sector resource to the user application via the wireless communications device. The user device is configured to display information regarding the emergency services sector resource from the user application. | 06-10-2010 |
20100159977 | System and Method for Providing Channel Configurations in a Communications Environment - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes monitoring a plurality of channels provisioned for an endpoint. The method also includes reacting to an alert message by adjusting one of the channels for the endpoint. The adjustment is a selected one of increasing a volume associated with the channel receiving the alert message, or changing a spatial direction from which the alert message and an associated media stream are conveyed to the endpoint. In other embodiments, the adjustment provisions the alert message from a left ear to a right ear of an end user of the endpoint. In still other embodiments, the adjustment includes determining which is a primary channel of the channels and provisioning the alert message to the primary channel of the endpoint. The media stream associated with the alert message is also moved to a same spatial direction along with the alert message. | 06-24-2010 |
20110111787 | METHOD FOR REPORTING MULTI-ADDRESS INFORMATION, MOBILE STATION AND AUTHENTICATION ORGANIZATION SYSTEM - A method for reporting multi-address information comprises a step wherein each of mobile stations (UE) obtains the positional information relating to the mobile stations (UE) and manages information relating to the obtained positional information, a step for reporting multi-address information provided with an electronic signature to each of the mobile stations (UE), a step wherein each of the mobile stations (UE) verifies the multi-address information by use of the electronic signature provided to the received multi-address information, a step wherein each of the mobile stations (UE), when the verifying is successful, compares positional information contained in the multi-address information with the positional information being managed, and a step wherein each of the mobile stations (UE) performs processing in response to the multi-address information on the basis of the result of comparing. | 05-12-2011 |
20110237287 | ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 09-29-2011 |
20110300894 | INTELLIGENT WIRELESS DISPATCH SYSTEMS - Intelligent wireless dispatch systems are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a dispatch computer and mobile data terminals positioned on a vehicle and in wireless communication with the dispatch computer. The system displays a plurality of drivers arranged in a driver stack, receives exception information from each mobile data terminal, displays a formatted driver icon corresponding to each driver in the driver stack, and sorts the drivers in the driver stack by prioritized exception information. The system is configured to display a driver assignment list for each driver including one or more assignments and to wirelessly transmit an assignment message to the mobile data terminals according to an update to a driver assignment list. The mobile data terminals are configured to display the assignment message for acceptance or rejection. Additional embodiments may also include voice-over-IP capability for two-way communication between the dispatcher and driver. | 12-08-2011 |
20120034946 | SAFETY AND TRACKING SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICES - The present invention is a safety and tracking system that includes a master or master control unit with visual and audible signal intensity indicators, a numerical indicator, a plurality of manual control buttons that provide input data to the master control unit, a plurality of indicator lights with audible sounder, a controlled gain antenna array that exchanges, sends and receives the input data, a transceiver that provides a communications link between the master control unit and a locator tag and a microprocessor. There are also one or more corresponding target or locator tags that include a panic button, an indicator lights with a sounder, an antenna that exchanges, sends and receives the input data, a transceiver and a microprocessor to coordinate the input data to the master control unit. | 02-09-2012 |
20120058795 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY SERVICE - A method and system for providing an emergency service are provided. The method includes broadcasting a channel message by a first mobile terminal in a no service state in response to a request for an emergency service, transmitting a corresponding response message to the first mobile terminal when a second mobile terminal receives the channel message from the first mobile terminal, forming a channel between the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal, and performing a communication according to the emergency service between the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal by using the formed channel. | 03-08-2012 |
20120100881 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SLEEP CYCLE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR EMERGENCY ALERT SERVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method operates a Mobile Station (MS) in a sleep mode state in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting a request message to a Base Station (BS) to inquire a location of a next scheduled listening window responsive to failing to receive a traffic indication message and unicast data during a listening window, receiving a response message unicast in response to the request message, performing sleep cycle synchronization by using synchronization information included in the response message, and determining whether an emergency alert service-related message is transmitted by using emergency alert service-related information included in the response message. | 04-26-2012 |
20130065628 | INCIDENT RESPONSE SYSTEM - A method for responding to incidents includes receiving incident information corresponding to an incident at an incident location. An incident scenario is generated based at least in part on the incident information, where the incident scenario identifies a number of responders for responding to the incident. A responder is identified based at least in part on an incident effectiveness of the responder with respect to the incident, where the incident effectiveness is based at least in part on past performance of the responder. A request for assistance with the incident is sent to a mobile device of the responder. | 03-14-2013 |
20130109427 | Individual Security Through Mobile Device Notifications | 05-02-2013 |
20130237273 | ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 09-12-2013 |
20130244713 | ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 09-19-2013 |
20130244714 | ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 09-19-2013 |
20130273962 | Methods, Systems and Apparatus for Selectively Distributing Urgent Public Information - Embodiments of the invention provide apparatuses, systems and methods for distributing public information. For example, some embodiments of the invention provide methods for determining an appropriate set of addresses to which to distribute an alert. One such exemplary method comprises maintaining a directory of alert gateways. The directory can comprise a plurality of directory entries, and each directory entry can be associated with a particular alert gateway. Each directory entry can also comprise at least one gateway characteristic associated with that alert gateway. In some cases, a gateway characteristic can include information to enable the alert distribution device to determine whether a given alert should be transmitted to the alert gateway. | 10-17-2013 |
20130303228 | EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR A PORTABLE DEVICE - Systems and methods for providing alerts to end users of networked enabled portable devices are provided so that the end users are made aware when broadcast emergency alerts are issued. In various embodiments, a portable device is enabled to receive information about an emergency alert broadcast of which the user should be aware, e.g., from the EAS, and to notify the user of the emergency alert. The user can be automatically taken to the emergency alert information by having the portable device automatically tune to the emergency broadcast information, the user can optionally retrieve the emergency information by tuning to the emergency broadcast channel, and/or the user can otherwise be presented with a reference to the emergency data, such as a link to the information. | 11-14-2013 |
20130310101 | ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system ( | 11-21-2013 |
20130344911 | Method and Apparatus for Energy Savings and Interference Reduction in a Wireless Communications Network - Disclosed are systems and methods to affect the activity of a base station transmitter (BTS) in a cellular communications network based, at least in part, on operating conditions. In one particular example implementation, a BTS in a cellular communication network may be placed in a reduced power consumption state in response to events or conditions indicative of reduced demand for service in the cell serviced by the BTS. | 12-26-2013 |
20140087780 | EMERGENCY INCLUDING CRIME BROADCAST IN A NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are a method, a device and a system of emergency including crime broadcast data generation and publication in a constrained geospatial vicinity around a broadcast location of a neighborhood social network. In one embodiment, the emergency broadcast data is radially distributed as a notification data through an on-page posting, an electronic communication, and/or a push notification delivered to (1) a set of recipients through an internet protocol (IP) based network associated with users and/or their user profiles around an epicenter defined at a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the emergency broadcast data generated through a computing device or (2) a set of service providers through a cellular network using the radial algorithm in addition to the set of recipients through the IP based network associated with users and/or their user profiles. | 03-27-2014 |
20140120977 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING MULTIPLE COORDINATED SAFETY RESPONSES - The disclosure generally relates to methods and systems for providing multiple coordinated safety responses. In an exemplary embodiment, the disclosure relates to notifying multiple persons who are within a vicinity of a victim, and instructing those persons to provide various safety responses at various frequencies, where the frequency of the response can be related to the closeness of first responders to the scene. The invention uses a safety force multiplier that frustrates, confuses, scares, and/or distracts a potential perpetrator by delivering multiple responses to a scene. | 05-01-2014 |
20140128119 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes a network side communication unit that receives emergency information from an information broadcasting node; a UE side communication unit that communicates a communication signal with user equipment through a radio base station; and a determination unit that determines whether to allow state transition, when the UE side communication unit receives a request signal requesting the state transition of an RRC protocol state from the user equipment, subsequent to broadcasting a Primary Notification signal providing notice of broadcasting of the emergency information. When the state transition is from a state in which receiving of the emergency information is enabled to a state in which receiving of the emergency information is disabled, the determination unit determines to disallow the state transition, and broadcasts a Secondary Notification signal including the emergency information. | 05-08-2014 |
20140243036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE - A plurality of portable display devices are wirelessly connected to a central server which is connected to a computer aided dispatch center. | 08-28-2014 |
20140295903 | PEER-TO-PEER EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION USING PUBLIC BROADCASTING - A method for emergency communication includes encoding a message for visual display including a message to field and a message from field. The visual display is revealed to a reading device in communication with a broadcast center, which stores the visual display. The messages are decoded and sorted from visual displays at the broadcast center. On an index channel, a time and channel number for when a message body of the message will be broadcast on a message channel is broadcasted. The message body is broadcasted on the message channel. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295904 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CENTER MODULE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR RELAYING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - There is provided a wireless communication system which solves various problems generated by allowing a terminal to transmit an emergency alert. In the wireless communication system, an emergency alert terminal ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140349699 | SINGLE BUTTON MOBILE TELEPHONE USING SERVER-BASED CALL ROUTING - Implementations disclose a single button mobile telephone using server-based call routing. A method of an implementation of the disclosure includes receiving, by a processing device, datasets from an apparatus worn by a user, wherein the datasets correspond to an event experienced by the user, in response to a signal to initiate a communication with the user, analyzing, by the processing device, the datasets to determine a type of the event, identifying, by the processing device, one of a plurality of destinations based on the analysis of the datasets and the determined type of the event, and routing, by the processing device, the signal to the identified destination. | 11-27-2014 |
20150105118 | Beach Public Address Wireless Early Warning System - A beach public address wireless early warning system that is used by lifeguards or beach safety personnel to warn the beach going public of hazards at a beach. The public address warning system comprises of a remote life guard station that has the capacity to capture images of its surrounding and to warn the public of hazards via a loud speaker (the public address warning system) from a life guard base station that controls and monitors the equipment of the remote life guard station via a radio frequency signal. The beach public address wireless warning system can provide WiFi capabilities to the beach public. | 04-16-2015 |
20160192160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN EMERGENCY MESSAGE OVER AN INTEGRATED WIRELESS NETWORK - An emergency message system provides a system and method for generating and transmitting emergency messages. In one embodiment, the emergency message system employs a transceiver network with a plurality transceivers coupled to monitoring devices residing at a plurality of customer premises. Control room operators receive an emergency message from an identifiable transceiver. The transceiver, identified by an identification code, indicates a location and the nature of the emergency condition so that the control operators may request appropriate emergency assistance. | 06-30-2016 |