DESC:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION:
This invention relates to the field of communication engineering and safety systems.

Particularly, this invention relates to a communicable safety locket system.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
Safety in India has become a major issue for individuals. Rapes and assaults are increasing exponentially, children are not safe to go out alone, even older population can be unsafe when alone in their own homes. Basic personal safety is a big issue.

Typically, a safety locket is a personal safety device that is worn or carried by an individual. It is designed to help locate the wearer in the event of an emergency.

However, one of the drawbacks of existing tracking devices is that they only track items.

Another set of drawbacks associated with such analogous devices is their form factor and size.

Yet another set of drawbacks associated with such analogous devices is their ability to work, for a long duration, without constant recharging.

Another set of drawbacks associated with such analogous devices is their inability to be communicably coupled, at all times; so as to provide active functionality at point-of-need.

Therefore, there is a need for a system which overcomes at least aforementioned limitations of the prior art.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION:
An object of the invention is to provide a safety locket system that is worn or carried by an individual in order to help locate a user, of the system, in the event of an emergency.

Another object of the invention is to provide a safety locket system with form factor being substantially reduced in size.

Yet another object of the invention is to provide a safety locket system which has an ability to work, for a long duration, without constant recharging.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a safety locket system which has ability to be communicably coupled, at all times; so as to provide active functionality at point-of-need.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
According to this invention, there is provided a communicable safety locket system of this invention comprises:
- a client-side locket configured to be worn by a user;
- a server-side module configured to be centrally located to be able to connect to one or more client-side lockets;
- communication networks to communicably couple, on demand, one of the one or more client-side lockets to the server-side module;
- a notification engine configured to provide pre-configured notifications;
- a synchronous timer, with a detection module, configured with said client-side locket and said server-side module;
o said client-side locket consisting, essentially, of:
? a tracking mechanism configured to track location of a user, of the locket, at all times;
? a random-access memory configured to allow users to store one or more contacts to be communication upon initiation through the server-side module, by the client-side locket;
? an emergency activation mechanism configured to allow full duplex communication, through the client-side locket, once communication is established to the server-side module;
o said server-side module consisting, essentially, of:
? a read-only memory, with a first look-up table containing location-wise list of police stations, to configure communication, through said communication networks, to one of said police stations, upon a user engaging with the emergency activation mechanism;
? said server-side module engaging with said first look-up table, based on location, obtained by said tracking mechanism, in order to determine a nearby police station and initiates contact with the determined police station based on geo-defined thresholds;
? a read-only memory, with a second look-up table containing a list of contacts per user to configure communication, through communication networks, to a contact, upon a user engaging with the emergency activation mechanism;
? said server-side module engaging with said second look-up table, based on location, obtained by said tracking mechanism, in order to initiates contact with a contact from said second look-up table;
o said notification engine configured, with a process, in order to:
? combine:
• location data with contact information;
• location data with threshold-determined geolocated police station information; and
? output:
• a communication link between user and contact along with a tracking link, for the contact, to track the user;
• a communication link between user and police station along with a tracking link, for the police station, to track the user; and
o said synchronous timer synchronises, and looks for activity at said server-side module in response to activation of emergency activation mechanism.

In at least an embodiment, said tracking mechanism being a GPS tracker.

In at least an embodiment, said tracking mechanism incorporating a System-on-Chip (SoC) design and incorporating a sleep mode along with a battery management system in a charger of this system.

In at least an embodiment, said random-access memory communicably coupled to a second look-up table.

In at least an embodiment, said communication networks such that said emergency activation mechanism configured to allow full duplex communication, through the client-side locket, once communication is established to the server-side module, through the communication networks.

In at least an embodiment, said emergency activation mechanism comprises voice activation mechanism.

In at least an embodiment, said communication network/s being configured to establish contact, in a full-duplex contact, between:
- client-side locket and server-side module;
- client-side locket and another communication module through the server-side module.

In at least an embodiment, said client-side locket comprises an accelerometer and a custom algorithm designed specifically for detecting falls in humans.

In at least an embodiment, said client-side locket comprises a heart rate sensor to detect heart rate related activity when the client-side locket is worn by a user.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS:
The invention will now be described in relation to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIGURE 1a illustrates a front view of the client-side locket of this system;
FIGURE 1b illustrates a side view of the client-side locket of this system;
FIGURE 2 illustrates a front view of the client-side locket of this system with the activation mechanism of this invention;
FIGURE 3a illustrates a front view of the open left side of the client-side locket of this system;
FIGURE 3b illustrates a side view of the open right side of the client-side locket of this system;
FIGURE 4 illustrates a PCB module's block diagram for the client-side locket of this system;
FIGURE 5 illustrates a module functional diagram for the client-side locket of this system;
FIGURE 6 illustrates a side view of the open right side of the sectional view of the client-side locket of this system; and
FIGURE 7 illustrates a block diagram of the complete system of this invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS:
According to this invention, there is provided a communicable safety locket system.

The safety locket takes, of this invention, provides additional features and functionality that can help protect a wearer from harm.

The safety locket system, of this invention, is designed to be small, portable, and easy to carry, making them convenient to use in a variety of situations.

In at least an embodiment, the safety locket system (100, 200, 300) of this invention comprises:
- a client-side locket (100) configured to be worn by a user;
- a server-side module (200) configured to be centrally located to be able to connect to one or more client-side lockets; and
- communication networks (300) to communicably couple, on demand, one of the one or more client-side lockets to the server-side module.

FIGURE 1a illustrates a front view of the client-side locket of this system.
FIGURE 1b illustrates a side view of the client-side locket of this system.

FIGURE 7 illustrates a block diagram of the complete system of this invention.

In at least an embodiment of the client-side locket (100), there is provided a tracking mechanism (104) configured to track location of a user, of the locket, at all times. Typically, this is a GPS tracker configured to locate location in real-time. Preferably, the client-side locket incorporates a System-on-Chip (SoC) design and incorporates a sleep mode along with a battery management system in a charger of this system rather than in the main device; these ensure efficient energy usage, reduced power drain, and extends device battery life. A proprietary algorithm was also developed to determine the device's location in areas with weak or unreliable GPS signals, providing enhanced performance and reliability.

In at least an embodiment of the client-side locket (100), there is provided a random-access memory configured to allow users to store one or more contacts to be communication upon initiation, through the server-side module (200), by the client-side locket (100). This information, correlative to users, is stored in a second look-up table (202).

In at least an embodiment of the client-side locket (100), there is provided a emergency activation mechanism (102) configured to allow full duplex communication, through the client-side locket (100), once communication is established to the server-side module, through the communication networks (300). Typically, the emergency activation mechanism (102) comprises voice activation mechanism.

FIGURE 2 illustrates a front view of the client-side locket of this system with the activation mechanism of this invention.

FIGURE 3a illustrates a front view of the open left side of the client-side locket of this system.
FIGURE 3b illustrates a side view of the open right side of the client-side locket of this system.

FIGURE 4 illustrates a PCB module's block diagram for the client-side locket of this system

FIGURE 5 illustrates a module functional diagram for the client-side locket of this system

FIGURE 6 illustrates a side view of the open right side of the sectional view of the client-side locket of this system.

In at least an embodiment of the client-side locket (100), there is provided an emergency activation mechanism (102) configured to allow a user to send a signal, via the communication networks (300), to the server-side module (200) in instances of distress, emergencies, or such exigencies.

In at least an embodiment of the server-side module (200), there is provided a read-only memory, with a first look-up table (201) containing location-wise list of police stations, to configure communication, through communication networks (300), to a police station, upon a user engaging with the emergency activation mechanism (102). Typically, a signal is sent, via the communication networks (300), to a nearby police station through the server-side module (200) in instances of distress, emergencies, or such exigencies. Based on location, obtained by the tracking mechanism (104), the server-side module (200) engages with the first look-up table (201) in order to determine a nearby police station and initiates contact with the determined police station based on geo-defined thresholds.

In at least an embodiment of the server-side module (200), there is provided a read-only memory, with the second look-up table (202) containing a list of contacts per user to configure communication, through communication networks (300), to a contact, upon a user engaging with the emergency activation mechanism. Typically, a signal is sent, via the communication networks (300), to a contact through the server-side module (200) in instances of distress, emergencies, or such exigencies. Based on location, obtained by the tracking mechanism (104), the server-side module (200) engages with the second look-up table (202) in order to determine corresponding contact, for that user, and initiates contact with the contact.

In at least an embodiment, of this invention, a notification engine:
- combines:
o location data with contact information;
o location data with threshold-determined geolocated police station information; and
- outputs:
o a communication link between user and contact along with a tracking link, for the contact, to track the user;
o a communication link between user and police station along with a tracking link, for the police station, to track the user.

In preferred embodiments, of the communication network/s (300), communication is done via Universal Asynchronous Receive Transmit (UART) serial protocol. UART works by converting data into packets for sending or rebuilding data from packets received.

In at least an embodiment, communication, through the communication network/s (300), may be established between:
- client-side locket (100) and server-side module (200);
- client-side locket (100) and another communication module through the server-side module (200).

Typically, the communication network/s (300) ensure full duplex communication between:
- client-side locket (100) and server-side module (200);
- client-side locket (100) and another communication module through the server-side module (200).

In at least an embodiment, the client-side locket (100) comprises an e-sim card for network connection to the server-side module (200), through communication networks (300) (preferably, GPRS networks). Typically, this e-sim is a sim card with calling feature and not M2M.

Typically, the e-sim is configured to find optimal GPS and GSM antenna according to the client-side locket’s PCB (Reference) circuit dimension. For GSM antenna, the system uses an internal printed PCB antenna. It is printed along with PCB. Generally, this type of antenna has an impedance of 50-ohm antenna. For GPS antenna, I find a chip-type antenna which is fit according to our requirements. A Chip-type antenna, specifically a patch-type GPS antenna, has been identified and is currently in the process of development to meet specific requirements and specifications of the system.

In at least an embodiment, a synchronous timer, with a detection module, is configured with the client-side locket (100) and the server-side module (200). The synchronous time synchronises, and looks for activity at the server-side module (200) in response to activation of emergency activation mechanism. In case activity is not detected, by the detection module, a subsequent, automatically triggered, signal is sent to the server-side module for action. This keeps on iteratively repeating until the detection module, tracks and reports a confirmed activity by the sever-side module (200).

In at least an embodiment, the client-side locket (100) comprises an accelerometer and a custom algorithm designed specifically for detecting falls in humans. Additionally, interlocks have been implemented to further prevent false alarms. The client-side locket (100) also comprises a built-in microphone that allows a user to listen to surrounding environments; providing an additional means of avoiding false alarms. These features ensure reliability and accuracy of the system’s alarm system.

In at least an embodiment, the client-side locket (100) comprises a heart rate sensor to detect heart rate related activity when the client-side locket is worn by a user. In preferred embodiments, a BH1790GLC is used which is is an optical sensor for heart rate monitor IC in which LED driver and green light detection photo-diode are incorporated. This drives LED and provides intensity of light reflected from a body. LED brightness can be adjusted by LED driver current and light-emitting period. A photodiode having the high sensitivity for green light, excellent wavelength selectivity, and excellent lrcut (Infrared cut off filter) characteristics achieves accurate pulse wave detection.

The TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENT of the invention lies in achieving a safety system which is in the form of a locket worn by a user and is communicably coupled with a central module for responding in cases of emergency. This invention reduces form factor of such lockets significantly. This invention ensures full-time connectivity. This invention eliminates false alarms. This invention ensures that action is taken per emergency activation signal.

It is to be appreciated that combinations of the different implementation environments are contemplated as being within the scope of embodiments of the invention. One of ordinary skill in the art will realize alternative implementations given the illustrative teachings provided herein.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the singular forms "a," "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additionally, the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," as used herein, specify the presence of stated values, features, steps, operations, modules, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of another value, feature, step, operation, module, element, component, and/or group thereof.

It will be understood that, although the terms first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited to any order by these terms. These terms are used only to distinguish one element from another; where there are “second” or higher ordinals, there merely must be that many number of elements, without necessarily any difference or other relationship. For example, a first element could be termed a second element, and, similarly, a second element could be termed a first element, without departing from the scope of example embodiments or methods. As used herein, the term “and/or” includes all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. The use of “etc.” is defined as “et cetera” and indicates the inclusion of all other elements belonging to the same group of the preceding items, in any “and/or” combinations.

The systems described herein can be made accessible through a portal or an interface which is a part of, or may be connected to, an internal network or an external network, such as the Internet or any similar portal. The portals or interfaces are accessed by one or more of users through an electronic device, whereby the user may send and receive data to the portal or interface which gets stored in at least one memory device or at least one data storage device or at least one server, and utilizes at least one processing unit. The portal or interface in combination with one or more of memory device, data storage device, processing unit and serves, form an embedded computing setup, and may be used by, or used in, one or more of a non-transitory, computer readable medium. In at least one embodiment, the embedded computing setup and optionally one or more of a non- transitory, computer readable medium, in relation with, and in combination with the said portal or interface forms one of the systems of the invention. Typical examples of a portal or interface may be selected from but is not limited to a website, an executable software program or a software application.

The systems and methods may simultaneously involve more than one user or more than one data storage device or more than one host server or more than one network or more than one node or any combination thereof.

A user may provide user input through any suitable input device or input mechanism such as but not limited to a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, a touchpad, a virtual keyboard, a virtual data entry user interface, a virtual dial pad, a software or a program, a scanner, a remote device, a microphone, a webcam, a camera, a fingerprint scanner, a cave, pointing stick.

The systems and methods can be practiced using any electronic device which may be connected to one or more of other electronic device with wires or wirelessly which may use technologies such as but not limited to, Bluetooth, WiFi, Wimax. This will also extend to use of the aforesaid technologies to provide an authentication key or access key or electronic device based unique key or any combination thereof.

In at least one embodiment, one or more user can be blocked or denied access to one or more of the aspects of the invention.

Encryption can be accomplished using any encryption technology, such as the process of converting digital information into a new form using a key or a code or a program, wherein the new form is unintelligible or indecipherable to a user or a thief or a hacker or a spammer. The term ‘encryption’ includes encoding, compressing, or any other translating of the digital content. The encryption of the digital media content can beperformed in accordance with any technology including utilizing an encryption algorithm. The encryption algorithm utilized is not hardware dependent and may change depending on the digital content. For example, a different algorithm may be utilized for different websites or programs. The term ‘encryption’ further includes one or more aspects of authentication, entitlement, data integrity, access control, confidentiality, segmentation, information control, and combinations thereof.

The described embodiments may be implemented as a system, method, apparatus or article of manufacture using standard programming and/or engineering techniques related to software, firmware, hardware, or any combination thereof. The described operations may be implemented as code maintained in a “non- transitory, computer readable medium”, where a processor may read and execute the code from the non-transitory, computer readable medium. A non-transitory, computer readable medium may comprise media such as magnetic storage medium (e.g., hard disk drives, floppy disks, tape, etc.), optical storage (CD-ROMs, DVDs, optical disks, etc.), volatile and non-volatile memory devices (e.g., EEPROMs, ROMs, PROMs, RAMs, DRAMs, SRAMs, Flash Memory, firmware, programmable logic, etc.), etc. The code implementing the described operations may further be implemented in hardware logic (e.g., an integrated circuit chip, Programmable Gate Array (PGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), etc.).

Still further, the code implementing the described operations may be implemented in “transmission signals”, where transmission signals may propagate through space or through a transmission media, such as an optical fibre, copper wire, etc. The transmission signals in which the code or logic is encoded may further comprise a wireless signal, satellite transmission, radio waves, infrared signals, Bluetooth, etc. The transmission signals in which the code or logic is encoded is capable of being transmitted by a transmitting station and received by a receiving station, where the code or logic encoded in the transmission signal may be decoded and stored in hardware or a non-transitory, computer readable medium at the receiving and transmitting stations or devices. An “article of manufacture” comprises non- transitory, computer readable medium or hardware logic, and/or transmission signals in which code may be implemented. A device in which the code implementing the described embodiments of operations is encoded may comprise a non-transitory, computer readable medium or hardware logic. Of course, those skilled in the art will recognize that many modifications may be made to this configuration without departing from the scope of the present invention, and that the article of manufacture may comprise suitable information bearing medium known in the art.

The term network means a system allowing interaction between two or more electronic devices, and includes any form of inter/intra enterprise environment such as the world wide web, Local Area Network (LAN) , Wide Area Network (WAN) , Storage Area Network (SAN) or any form of Intranet.

The systems and methods can be practiced using any electronic device. An electronic device for the purpose of this invention is selected from any device capable of processing or representing data to a user and providing access to a network or any system similar to the internet, wherein the electronic device may be selected from but not limited to, personal computers, tablet computers, mobile phones, laptop computers, palmtops, portable media players, and personal digital assistants. In an embodiment, the computer readable medium data storage unit or data storage device is selected from a set of but not limited to USB flash dtive (pen drive), memory card, optical data storage discs, hard disk drive, magnetic disk, magnetic tape data storage device, data server and molecular memory.

The process steps, method steps, algorithms or the like may be described in a sequential order, such processes, methods and algorithms may be configured to work in alternate orders. In other words, any sequence or order of steps that may be described does not necessarily indicate a requirement that the steps be performed in that order. The steps of processes described herein may be performed in any order practical. Further, some steps may be performed simultaneously, in parallel, or concurrently.

While this detailed description has disclosed certain specific embodiments for illustrative purposes, various modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art which do not constitute departures from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, and it is to be distinctly understood that the foregoing descriptive matter is to be interpreted merely as illustrative of the invention and not as a limitation.
,CLAIMS:WE CLAIM,

1. A communicable safety locket system (100, 200, 300) of this invention comprises:
- a client-side locket (100) configured to be worn by a user;
- a server-side module (200) configured to be centrally located to be able to connect to one or more client-side lockets;
- communication networks (300) to communicably couple, on demand, one of the one or more client-side lockets to the server-side module;
- a notification engine configured to provide pre-configured notifications;
- a synchronous timer, with a detection module, configured with said client-side locket (100) and said server-side module (200);
o said client-side locket (100) consisting, essentially, of:
? a tracking mechanism (104) configured to track location of a user, of the locket, at all times;
? a random-access memory configured to allow users to store one or more contacts to be communication upon initiation through the server-side module (200), by the client-side locket (100);
? an emergency activation mechanism (102) configured to allow full duplex communication, through the client-side locket (100), once communication is established to the server-side module (200);
o said server-side module (200) consisting, essentially, of:
? a read-only memory, with a first look-up table (201) containing location-wise list of police stations, to configure communication, through said communication networks (300), to one of said police stations, upon a user engaging with the emergency activation mechanism (102);
? said server-side module (200) engaging with said first look-up table (201), based on location, obtained by said tracking mechanism (104), in order to determine a nearby police station and initiates contact with the determined police station based on geo-defined thresholds;
? a read-only memory, with a second look-up table (202) containing a list of contacts per user to configure communication, through communication networks (300), to a contact, upon a user engaging with the emergency activation mechanism (102);
? said server-side module (200) engaging with said second look-up table (202), based on location, obtained by said tracking mechanism (104), in order to initiates contact with a contact from said second look-up table (202);
o said notification engine configured, with a process, in order to:
? combine:
• location data with contact information;
• location data with threshold-determined geolocated police station information; and
? output:
• a communication link between user and contact along with a tracking link, for the contact, to track the user;
• a communication link between user and police station along with a tracking link, for the police station, to track the user; and
o said synchronous timer synchronises, and looks for activity at said server-side module (200) in response to activation of emergency activation mechanism (102).

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said tracking mechanism (104) being a GPS tracker.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said tracking mechanism (104) incorporating a System-on-Chip (SoC) design and incorporating a sleep mode along with a battery management system in a charger of this system.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said random-access memory communicably coupled to a second look-up table (202).

5. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said communication networks (300) such that said emergency activation mechanism (102) configured to allow full duplex communication, through the client-side locket (100), once communication is established to the server-side module, through the communication networks (300).

6. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said emergency activation mechanism (102) comprises voice activation mechanism.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said communication network/s (300) being configured to establish contact, in a full-duplex contact, between:
- client-side locket (100) and server-side module (200);
- client-side locket (100) and another communication module through the server-side module (200).

8. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said client-side locket (100) comprises an accelerometer and a custom algorithm designed specifically for detecting falls in humans.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, said client-side locket (100) comprises a heart rate sensor to detect heart rate related activity when the client-side locket is worn by a user.

Dated this 14th day of February, 2024

CHIRAG TANNA
of INK IDÉE
APPLICANT’S PATENT AGENT
REGN. NO. IN/PA – 1785