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• • H—ELECTRICITY
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  • H04L12/16—Arrangements for providing special services to substations
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  • H04L12/1895—Arrangements for providing special services to substations for broadcast or conference, e.g. multicast for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
  • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
  • G08G1/20—Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
  • G08G1/205—Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• • H—ELECTRICITY
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  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L51/00—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
  • H04L51/21—Monitoring or handling of messages
  • H04L51/222—Monitoring or handling of messages using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L51/00—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
  • H04L51/52—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail for supporting social networking services
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
  • H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
  • H04W4/90—Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
  • H04W76/00—Connection management
  • H04W76/50—Connection management for emergency connections

Definitions

• the present invention relates to sending automatic emergency alert notifications to a pre-registered list of emergency contacts using various channels and media upon the execution of emergency events especially during a distress situation where one is in no capacity to call for rescue.
• This emergency event may also be a routine activity as vulnerability and mischief sometimes comes from the least expected routine activity which caught us off guard.
• the ideal practice is to ensure that one register all the events every time the individual is going anywhere alone.
• the system provides standard routine templates during registration, thus making this a daily habit. Having cultivate this as one daily routine, this method will provide an almost full-proof 'self-protection system'.
• U.S. Patent No. 5,805,670 to Pons et al communicates 91 1 information such as location, telephone number and other information conveyed to the emergency operator and automatically send this information to pre-selected registered contacts using various channels such as wireless, facsimile and public data network.
• this private notification system can only triggered the emergency notification when user successfully dialed into 911 emergency services which may not be the case when one is in danger.
• U.S Patent No. 7,076,235 to Esque et al invention describes the notification of emergency contacts stored within the wireless device and upon and emergency input, the system will automatically retrieves the contacts and sends individual messages designated to individual contacts. Also, because the contacts are stored within the wireless device it is compatible to send messages to any wireless network transmitting by the wireless devices.
• U.S Patent No. 7,212,111 to Tupler et comprises of methods, systems and sensors in detecting an emergency situation such as heart attack and then automatically dispatching the related emergency services. Also, the system will retrieve additional emergency contacts from the memory wireless device to notify them that one has requested for emergency services. This invention is more relevant to triggering an emergency services outcome from a health or environment hazard where there is a change to the predefined threshold. However, it is limited by the availability of the types of sensors in place and does not provide much information of the emergency situation.
• the above invention and technology are all designed to automatically sending emergency notifications to emergency contacts.
• all inventions would require one to trigger an emergency call or emergency button on the wireless devices before reaching out to the emergency contacts for help or required apparatus to trigger an emergency situation.
• the current documented invention is capable of automatically triggering an emergency notification upon the end of the event time providing adequate details of the emergency event and the location (subject to one's wireless device is subscribe to the location base service, such as GPS service) of the individual without any action explicitly from the individual during the emergency distress situation or when one is in a situation where he cannot access to his wireless device.
• This method and system is a personal protection solution which leverages on SMS technology but not limiting to this technology alone to provide a 'security-guard' for the subscriber.
• the concept relates to anticipating and registering any potential vulnerable event and the system will automatically alert the right people for assistance.
• One of the main benefit of this is that when one is indeed faced with any harm or trouble and the situation does not permit one to call for help or push any emergency button, this service will automatically triggered an alert and send an emergency message together with one's probable location to a group of predefine people for help.
• the method also does not dependent on any additional devices, apparatus or sensors in order to trigger the emergency alert.
• the system would then automatically send an emergency notification via SMS, but not limited to only this channels notifying the emergency contacts that an undesirable event had occurred with information on the where about of your love ones.
• FIGURE 1 Provides an overview of the personal protection system from the registration of an event to the emergency notification using different channels and media.
• FIGURE 2 Illustrates the process workflow diagram of first time registration of the service
• FIGURE 3 Illustrates the process workflow diagram how one register for an emergency event
• FIGURE 4 Illustrated the process workflow diagram of how the system continues to track the safety of the person and his location and automatically triggered emergency alert for help.
• FIGURE 5 Illustrated the process workflow diagram of second level notification to third party or authority systems.
• FIGURE 1 demonstrates the logical diagram flow of an individual performing registration of an emergency event using various channels such as email, web portal, and wireless network using SMS, 3G, GPRS or mobile device.
• the server Upon reaching the predefine end time, the server will send the individual a 'safety confirmation' sms and wait for a positive reply within a predetermine timeframe, failing which the server notification engine will then send an emergency alert message to a list of emergency contacts.
• the same emergency message will also be broadcasted to the subscribers own social service network such as Facebook or Twitter.
• the system can also continuosly track the user's location using the wireless location base tracking service, e.g GPS technology (subject to the individual's wireless device is subscribed to the service) and send the location together with the emergency notification message.
• the system can also be integrated to other security networks/systems such as police Patrolling System or Private Security Network as a second level emergency alert.
• An individual will first subscribe for the service through a web portal or via any other channels such as via his mobile phone using SMS, email, facsimile, etc.
• SMS SMS (but not limiting to only this channel), where one will then tagged the wireless device which one will use to register his future event. It can be the subscriber's own wireless device or any third party wireless device. Example a mother registering her daughter wireless device for this service.
• the emergency contacts can comprise of one or many people or even different groups of people making up of friend or relatives.
• the channels can be in the form of SMS, email and user social network account such as Face Book, Twitter and etc.
• the subscriber can register an emergency event via the registered 'triggered channel' with details of the event follow-by the anticipated event end time.
• Example of an event is when one boards a cab to go to a specific destination within certain duration. One can then registered the 'secure- me' event as 'Boarding a cab, AAA1234 to Hotel ABC. Estimated arrival time 1 pm'
• the first method is triggered upon the event end time.
• the server will send a SMS message to the individual wireless device (but not limiting to this channel alone) requesting for confirmation of his safety. If the server does not receive any positive response within a specific time duration, the server will automatically send an emergency alert to the 'Emergency contact list' via the predefined channels earlier.
• the second method is for the person to send an 'emergency code' via SMS using his wireless device or any channels that the individual can access to and upon receiving the 'emergency code', the server will also automatically send an emergency alert to the 'Emergency contact list' via the predefined channels earlier.
• the system is design to also detect the person tentative where about using any location base tracking capability (such as GPS) should the person's wireless device support and subscribe to the service. Also the individual wireless device number must first be captured during enrollment.
• any location base tracking capability such as GPS
• the emergency event will be considered closed.
• Two methods of triggering an emergency event either system proactively triggering based on the pre-set event end time or reactively when a user submit an emergency code to the server via SMS upon an emergency.
• the service enables a second level of emergency notifications to third part any online authorized party such as policy patrolling system.

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