Mobile Emergency Notification via Packet Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication technologies fail to notify family members or designated individuals in a user's home country when an emergency call is made from a mobile device while roaming in a foreign country.
Innovation Solution
Implementing AI/ML models on mobile devices and carrier network systems to analyze packet data, voice recordings, and location information to detect emergencies or suspicious activities, and send high-priority notifications to emergency contacts via OTT messaging, ensuring messages are not dropped due to network congestion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional emergency call notification systems are used while roaming internationally, then the carrier network can process emergency calls, but family members in the home country are not notified of the emergency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary notification system that bridges the home carrier network and foreign carrier network. When an emergency call is detected in a foreign country, the system uses packet data analysis to identify the emergency call, then sends notifications through the home carrier network to family members, effectively mediating between different carrier networks to solve the notification delivery problem across international boundaries
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical telephone switchboard-based emergency notification systems with a packet-based data communication system. By analyzing packet data from foreign carrier networks and using IP-based messaging, the system achieves more versatile international notification capability compared to traditional telephony infrastructure
2Reliability
If high-priority emergency notifications are sent during network congestion, then notification delivery reliability improves, but network resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating notification priority based on content type and urgency. Emergency notifications receive high priority treatment with guaranteed delivery, while regular notifications follow standard queueing. This localized prioritization ensures critical information gets through during congestion without requiring all traffic to be treated as high priority, thus balancing reliability with resource consumption
3Measurement precision
If packet data analysis is performed to detect emergency calls, then detection accuracy improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring packet analysis filters and emergency number patterns before actual emergency calls occur. The system continuously monitors packet data for predetermined emergency indicators (such as emergency service numbers, SOS patterns, or keywords in text messages), enabling rapid detection without requiring complex real-time analysis, thus reducing processing time while maintaining accuracy
Data Source
AI summary
Foreign emergency notification, activity notification, and suspicious movement detection for mobile devices are disclosed. An application running on a mobile device of a user may be used to automatically detect when a call is made to emergency services in a foreign country, when an issue or unpermitted behavior may be occurring, when the mobile device has moved to an anomalous or unpermitted location and/or is moving with an unexpected speed, etc. The application then notifies family members and/or other contacts in the user's home country via a domestic carrier network. An over-the-top Internet Protocol (IP) message can be sent by the application on the mobile device back to the home network core.