AML Emergency Notification System for Contact Alerting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack the ability to automatically notify emergency contacts of users about emergency events related to their location during emergency calls, which can lead to delayed or inefficient responses from emergency services.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize Advanced Mobile Location (AML) data from cellular devices to automatically send notifications to emergency contacts, including location and user information, via SMS or HTTPS messages, ensuring timely and informed responses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If AML data is transmitted during emergency calls, then location accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-registers emergency contacts and their contact information in a database before emergencies occur. When an emergency call is initiated, the notification system automatically retrieves the pre-stored contact information and sends notifications without requiring real-time manual input, thus reducing system complexity while maintaining high location accuracy through AML data
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a notification system as an intermediary component that receives AML data from the cellular device, queries the database for emergency contacts using the MSISDN, and automatically sends notifications. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the notification logic and separating it from both the emergency calling function and the database management
2Loss of time
If emergency notifications are automatically transmitted, then response time is reduced, but information loss is minimized
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary registration of emergency contacts, their relationships to users, and contact information in a database before emergencies occur. This pre-prepared information is immediately accessible during emergencies, enabling automatic notification transmission without delay while ensuring complete and accurate information is conveyed to the right contacts
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system provides feedback by automatically transmitting emergency information including location data, user identification, and contact details to registered emergency contacts. This feedback loop ensures that critical information is rapidly communicated to appropriate parties without manual intervention, reducing both response time and information loss
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for notifying automatically emergency events reported by users to emergency contacts of the users, comprising receiving one or more advanced cellular location (AML) messages transmitted by one or more cellular devices of one or more users to an AML service when the cellular device(s) initiates an emergency call, the AML message(s) comprising a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) and a location of the cellular device(s), retrieving contact information of one or more emergency contacts associated with the MSISDN extracted from the AML message(s), and transmitting one or more emergency notifications to the emergency contact(s) according to the contact information. The one or more emergency notifications indicative of the emergency call(s) comprise an indication of the user(s) and the location of the cellular device(s) extracted from the AML message(s).