Mobile Device Location Data Exchange for Emergency Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices often provide incomplete or inaccurate location information during emergency events, as they lack a dedicated location assignment and rely on methods like cellular triangulation or GPS, which cannot determine floor or apartment numbers.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows mobile device users to store additional location and information, enabling secure exchange with emergency services or institutions, such as credit card details or addresses, through specially designed applications and cloud-based databases, without interrupting calls, using DTMF signals or other data transfer methods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If mobile devices use cellular triangulation or GPS for location determination, then location information can be provided to emergency services, but the location information is incomplete or inaccurate (cannot determine floor or apartment number)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments location information into multiple hierarchical levels: general geographic location (from GPS/triangulation) and specific building details (floor, apartment number). The mobile device stores pre-configured location data that includes this segmented structure, allowing the system to provide both broad and precise location information separately, thus resolving the contradiction between obtaining general location and preserving specific detail.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device performs preliminary action by pre-storing detailed location information (including floor and apartment numbers) in its database before an emergency occurs. This advance preparation ensures that when an emergency call is made, the complete and accurate location information is already available on the device and can be immediately transmitted to emergency services without relying solely on real-time GPS or triangulation methods.
2Speed
If mobile devices transmit location information in real-time during emergency calls, then emergency services can receive location data, but the information is incomplete or inaccurate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by having the mobile device store complete location information (including building, floor, and apartment number) in its database before the emergency call. During the real-time emergency call, this pre-stored accurate information is transmitted along with the call, ensuring both real-time delivery and high precision without relying solely on less accurate real-time GPS or triangulation methods.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device acts as an intermediary that bridges the gap between real-time communication needs and accurate location data requirements. It stores and transmits pre-configured detailed location information through the call system, mediating between the speed requirement of real-time transmission and the precision requirement of accurate location data by providing both simultaneously.
3Quantity of substance
If mobile devices rely on GPS or cellular triangulation, then location can be determined, but floor or apartment number cannot be determined
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments location data into multiple components: general location (from GPS/triangulation) and specific details (building address, floor, apartment number). The mobile device stores this segmented information in its database, allowing the system to combine broad coverage data with precise detail data, thus achieving both comprehensive location data coverage and specific location precision simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges two different types of location information sources: real-time geographic location data from GPS or cellular triangulation, and pre-stored detailed location information from the mobile device database. By combining these sources, the system achieves both broad location coverage and specific precision (floor and apartment number) that neither source could provide alone.
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AI summary
A method and system to allow the exchange of information between a person's mobile device and a business, institution, organization, agency, etc. to send, as per request, information that is required or is relevant to the parties, without having to interrupt the call. The businesses, institutions, organizations, agencies, etc. can be for instance, a 911 dispatcher office, a merchant that operates through the phone or a service provider, though such examples are not considered limiting.