Personal Security Server Location-Based Service Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cellular telephone systems lack an effective method for providing personalized and community-based security services, particularly in locations like university campuses, where users need efficient location tracking and emergency response solutions.
Innovation Solution
A communication server system that integrates with mobile handsets to select the appropriate security service based on the user's location, utilizing location-based servers for precise positioning and enabling a personal security button for one-touch access, while allowing enrollment and providing features like at-risk interval monitoring and notification to security services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a communication server selects security services based on user location, then the precision of security service matching is improved, but the system complexity increases due to integration with location-based servers and multiple security services
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication server as an intermediary component that mediates between mobile handsets and multiple security services. This server receives communications from users, determines their locations by querying location-based servers, and selectively notifies appropriate security services. This intermediary approach enables precise location-based service matching while centralizing the complexity management in a single component rather than distributing it across all system elements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system integrates multiple security services for different communities, then the versatility of security coverage is improved, but the difficulty of service coordination and notification increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication server is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple security services for different communities (e.g., university campus police, local police departments). The server implements a unified notification mechanism that can adapt to various community types and security service providers through configurable parameters rather than requiring separate coordination systems for each service, thereby achieving multi-functionality without proportionally increasing coordination complexity.
3Measurement precision
If location-based querying is implemented to determine user position, then the accuracy of security service notification is improved, but the communication overhead and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by having the communication server query location-based servers and determine user positions as part of the initial emergency response sequence. Rather than delaying security service notification until all information is fully processed, the server quickly obtains location data and immediately uses it to notify appropriate security services, thereby reducing overall response time while maintaining position accuracy through the use of established location-based infrastructure.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for providing assistance to each of a plurality of users, each having been enrolled as a member of a community includes receiving, at a server, communications from corresponding mobile devices, each of which is associated with a user who has enrolled as a member in a first community. These emergency communications were initiated by activation of respective personal security buttons on the mobile devices, and provide information about respective security conditions. In response to the communications, the server alerts corresponding first and second security services that are appropriate responding to the respective security conditions.