Granted Patent B2

US 12,219,082 · App. 18/774,417 · Granted Feb 4, 2025

Inventors: Michael John Martin (Long Island City, NY); Nicholas Edward Horelik (Long Island City, NY); John Paul Lawrence (New York, NY); Ramon Antonio Alvarez (Brooklyn, NY); Mateo Creamer (Brooklyn, NY)

Assignee: RapidSOS, Inc.

H04M1/72421H04W4/14H04W4/90

Abstract

Claims (40)

1. A method for facilitating emergency communications, by an emergency management system, the method comprising:

identifying a first user associated with an electronic device that may be affected by an emergency;

providing an emergency response application comprising a list of incidents and an interactive map to a computing device of an emergency service provider (ESP), wherein selection of a first incident from the list of incidents allows a second user at the ESP to initiate a communication with the first user; and

in response to the initiation of a communication by the second user at the ESP, visually changing an indicator associated with the first incident in the list of incidents.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communication comprises a communication session established between the first user via the electronic device and the second user at the ESP via the emergency response application.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the communication session is autonomous and a sequence of messages in the communication session transmitted to the first user is adapted dynamically.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the sequence of messages in the communication session transmitted to the first user is generated using machine learning algorithms.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session and is displayed by the emergency response application on the computing device.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session and is transmitted to computer aided dispatch (CAD).

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session by looking for key words and phrases within responses from the first user.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first incident is associated with a negative status indicating “not received” or “not answered”.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first incident is associated with a negative status indicating “dropped” or “disconnected”.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first user has initiated an emergency communication using the electronic device and the emergency communication has not been received or answered.

11. An emergency management system comprising a network component, a memory, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the network component and the memory and operative to:

identify a first user associated with an electronic device that may be affected by an emergency;

provide an emergency response application comprising a list of incidents and an interactive map to a computing device of an emergency service provider (ESP), wherein selection of a first incident from the list of incidents allows a second user at the ESP to initiate a communication with the first user; and

in response to the initiation of a communication by the second user at the ESP, visually changing an indicator associated with the first incident in the list of incidents.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the communication comprises a communication session established between the first user via the electronic device and the second user at the ESP via the emergency response application.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the communication session is autonomous and a sequence of messages in the communication session transmitted to the first user is adapted dynamically.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the sequence of messages in the communication session transmitted to the first user is generated using machine learning algorithms.

15. The system of claim 12 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session and is displayed by the emergency response application on the computing device.

16. The system of claim 12 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session and is transmitted to computer aided dispatch (CAD).

17. The system of claim 12 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session by looking for key words and phrases within responses from the first user.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first incident is associated with a negative status indicating “not received” or “not answered”.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first incident is associated with a negative status indicating “dropped” or “disconnected”.

20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first user has initiated an emergency communication using the electronic device and the emergency communication has not been received or answered.

21. An emergency response application providing a user interface for an emergency service provider (ESP) comprising:

a list of incidents representing potential emergencies occurring within a jurisdiction of the ESP, wherein a first incident from the list of incidents is associated with a first user affected by the first incident;

an interactive map wherein one or more locations of each incident within the list of incidents are displayed with markers on the interactive map;

a messaging button wherein selection of the first incident from the list of incidents allows a second user at the ESP to initiate a communication with the first user by interacting with the messaging button; and

an indicator of the first incident, wherein in response to the initiation of a communication by the second user at the ESP, the indicator visually changes in the list of incidents.

22. The emergency response application of claim 21 , wherein the communication comprises a communication session established between the first user via an electronic device of the first user and the second user at the ESP via the emergency response application.

23. The emergency response application of claim 22 , wherein the communication session is autonomous and a sequence of messages in the communication session transmitted to the first user is adapted dynamically.

24. The emergency response application of claim 23 , wherein the sequence of messages in the communication session transmitted to the first user is generated using machine learning algorithms.

25. The emergency response application of claim 22 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session and is displayed by the emergency response application.

26. The emergency response application of claim 22 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session and is transmitted to computer aided dispatch (CAD).

27. The emergency response application of claim 22 , wherein emergency information about the first incident is extracted from the communication session by looking for key words and phrases within responses from the first user.

28. The emergency response application of claim 21 , wherein the first incident is associated with a negative status indicating “not received” or “not answered”.

29. The emergency response application of claim 21 , wherein the first incident is associated with a negative status indicating “dropped” or “disconnected”.

30. The emergency response application of claim 21 , wherein the first incident is associated with a status indicating that the first user has initiated an emergency communication using an electronic device and the emergency communication has not been received or answered.

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