Notification and alert method for wearable and/or other devices
View Patent ↗Systems and methods for delivering alerts, notifications and messages, to and, if configured, responses from one to many users wearing technology designed for single and/or multiple media types, utilizing one to many non-primary communication pathways enabled are contemplated in which (a) a primary communication channel pathway, (b) a primary or non-primary control channel(s) is established, by wireless receiver and/or wired connection to a group of users, that (b) then allows an activation method type to provide an alert/notification/message method to one-to-many persons (i.e., users) and/or, one-to-many devices in an addressable manner that establishes a non-primary communication channel path that is parallel and unknown to the primary communication channel path. The overall method consists of a router function and media delivery routing technology) that are actively listening on a primary communication/control pathway or a non-primary control channel. If an activation method is utilized over the communication pathway or non-primary control channel and an activation is designated for specific device(s) assigned within a specific non-primary communication channel pathway, then a delivery method for that device(s) is invoked that processes and delivers the non-primary media (audio, visual, and sensory) based on the command type, any local settings and the media type transmitted. In addition, the wearable device may also include connection to a specialized, logical audio router that manages non-primary communication channels and ‘cut-ins’ or ‘super-imposition’ functions for the delivery of alerts, notifications, and messages as an overlay on the primary communications channel that all users present may then hear, see, feel and/or respond via available methods through the appropriate primary and/or non-primary communications channel.
1. A system for alert and/or notification comprising:
at least one wearable media comprising a primary media channel and at least one non-primary media channel,
said at least one wearable media operatively connected to an activation device via an addressable communication pathway,
said at least one wearable media comprising a notification protocol;
wherein said notification protocol is initiated via a command trigger by the activation device;
wherein said notification protocol is configured to receive digital media and encode it as a notification or alert;
wherein said at least one wearable device is configured to decode and play back said digital media encoded as a notification or alert via the at least one non-primary media channel when the notification protocol is initiated; and
wherein said activation device is configured to control which of the at least one wearable media receives digital media.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the command trigger comprises a representation of an alert and/or notification to be reproduced via the a least one non-primary media channel.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein said at least one non-primary media channel is a physical media channel.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein said at least one non-primary media channel is a virtual media channel.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein said received digital media is superimposed over said primary media channel.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein said received digital media suppresses said primary media channel.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-primary media channel is text-based.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-primary media channel is audio-based.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-primary media channel is a vibrating actuator.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the non-primary media channel is light-based.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the command trigger comprises a deactivate command.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein said activation device is configured to receive a notification acknowledgement from the at least one wearable media further comprising a notification acknowledgement trigger.
13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the notification protocol comprises a decoding module; and wherein the decoding module is configured to modify at least an element of an audio alert and/or notification according to a preestablished attribute.
14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the notification acknowledgement from at least one wearable media may be a GPS coordinate location.
15. The system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one non-primary media channel is text and audio based.
16. The system of claim 2 , wherein said activation device is configured to receive a response message from the at least one wearable media in the appropriate response format.
17. The system of claim 1 , wherein said at least one wearable media may be sent the digital media individually via an addressable system.