FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to system and method for informing a critical situation by using network and more particular to ask for help about present danger.
There are various emergencies such as car accident, fire, kidnapping, or mountain climbing, the details related to the incident and the activities that occur immediately afterward, including the location, time, sounds, and events, are generally the most important, but it is impossible for person to respond with efficient rescue in time simply by the limited or no information as it is impossible to gather all the information suddenly and precisely.
Previously, telephones had an option of Emergency calling to limit the number of digits required when placing an Emergency Calling. In such cases, the dialing features in telephone devices were limited to dialing predetermined emergency number. As smart phone technology advances, endless varieties of touch screen mobile phones emerge. Mobile and wireless telephones have become the mainstream of cell phone development. In the recent years, owing to spreading of mobile and wireless telephones, it becomes possible to send emergency notification of any emergency such as kidnapping, fire dispatch, calling for ambulance and so forth immediately on site but with mobile and wireless telephones, the address/location of a user in an emergency call is normally unknown.
On the other hand, when any person with impaired hearing, subjecting to disaster has to do emergency notification, such person cannot inform the content of the emergency state and the own position for difficulty in normal telephone communication using voice.
To determine the address or location of the caller, various techniques for determining geographic positioning of the caller are performed, including using global positioning system (GPS) equipment and network assisted positioning by using triangulation, as performed by a communications network.
As mobile telecommunications have advanced, different forms of data messaging communications have been developed, including text messaging, instant messaging, photo messaging, and video messaging.
Previously, in some cases, the users developed a function of sending a pre-stored short message of safety (SMS) to specific persons such as relatives, friends and colleagues in priority order when placing emergency call, so that persons can best respond to such call prevent such call from being missed.
The drawback of such pre-stored short messaging function was that it was unable to send exact position of the person and also the exact nature of the emergency. Further, such kind of functions can also be error prone, thereby resulting in an increased probability that the user sends the Emergency number even when there is no Emergency.
Further, previously, the users have developed several ‘Emergency’ mobile Applications which when activated, can inform the selected persons about an emergency. Some of the main drawbacks of such Applications are that such Applications were required to be activated to perform an action. The Applications can consume certain amount of time to activate which may be critical to save somebody’s life. The activation of such Applications may also depend on certain other factors such as battery strength, internet connection etc. Further, such Applications are also prone to crash i.e. stop functioning properly.
Further, in some cases, the person in danger cannot activate the emergency mobile Application due to various reasons such as the presence of robber, kidnapper etc.
Thus, there is a need of an apparatus which comprises a solution for providing emergency notification and/or capturing and transmitting pertinent information attached with location information from a mobile device so as to receive rescue in time.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
There are a number of advantages, features, and objects achieved with the present invention which are believed not to be available in earlier related devices.
The object of the invention is to overcome the difficulties encountered with previous devices known in the art.
The object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone device with function of emergency notification.
Another object of the present invention is to provide user convenience.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The foregoing and other objects, aspects and advantages of an emergency notification system will be better understood from the following detailed description with reference to the drawings
FIG. 1 schematically depicts one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 schematically depicts another embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 and 3a schematically depicts another embodiment of the present invention.
Other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more fully apparent from the following detailed description, the appended claims, and the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals identify similar or identical elements.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The term "phone”, “telephone”, “cellular telephone” and “multi-functional devices” as used herein means electrical instruments of the type used to transmit voice and/or other data signals over relatively long distances. Examples of such instruments include cellular telephones, radios, pagers, personal-digital- assistant (PDA) and pen-input notebooks having signal transmitting and receiving capabilities, and the like. In particular, the present invention is directed to such instruments that use a smooth touch- sensitive screen to input and display data.
The present invention is directed to an emergency notification system for a mobile device. To achieve above object, the present invention provides a mobile phone device with function of emergency notification in which a mobile phone is provided to conduct send/receive operation of mobile radio communication based on the matched biometric data.
The mobile phone is controlled by a controller that is coupled to the transmitter, receiver, and the touchscreen display of the present invention. The controller in the preferred embodiment is a microcontroller. Alternate embodiments can use different types of controllers such as microprocessors, application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), or other such controllers.
The mobile phone includes a wireless telecommunication system that is designed to transmit and receive voice and data between the mobile phone devices and wireless communication receivers, such as cellular base stations, WIFI hubs, etc.
The present invention is directed to an emergency notification system for a mobile device. To achieve above object, the present invention provides a mobile phone device with function of emergency notification, in which a mobile phone is provided to conduct send/receive operation of mobile radio communication, such device is characterized in that the mobile phone is provided with a global positioning system receiver, a memory cell, an emergency phone number and a camera.
Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a control system in accordance with the present invention. The control system includes a central processor which enables a user to add a contact in emergency contact list. The control system further includes a contact picker and a validator. The processor enables a contact picker of android to choose a contact from the contact list. The validator validates the contact with regard to the predetermined means and instructs the central processor to save the phone number in the system Preferences (called as SharedPreferences in Android) or in Database and the processor add the contact in emergency list.
In an embodiment, if the validator fails to validate the contact, the central processor terminates the process and the user has to again launch the contact picker of the android to perform the task.
Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of a system of the mobile phone of the present invention. The system has a biometric sensor which can read an image of a biometric data placed on it. The biometric sensor incorporates a user interface that may include a touch sensitive display screen coupled to a controller operable to display on the touch sensitive display screen. The touchscreen display, in the preferred embodiment, is responsive to a screen sensor that detects mechanical pressure from a user’s biometric on a particular portion of the screen. The touch sensor may be a film behind a flexible tactile transducer film or a thin film in front of tactile elements with sufficient flexibility and compliance that it does not impair the tactile perception of the screen. The touch sensors can be based on optical, thermal, pressure, electrical, or other sensing means. Such sensors are already known in the art.
The biometric sensor is attached to a processor for e.g. but not limiting to Android Application Interface, which in-turn incorporates a fingerprint manager comprising of storage medium having all the information of mapped fingerprint. The fingerprint manager validates the mapped fingerprint and is further connected to mobile phone interface. The processor is further connected to emergency processor which is inturn connected to selected emergency contacts, Global positioning system (GPS) receiver, calling processor and button and screen controlling processor.
In one embodiment, the present invention also comprises a method of reading biometric data. Reading biometric data comprises reading data captured during a finger placement on a fingerprint image sensor or data captured during a finger swipe over a fingerprint image sensor.
In an embodiment of the present invention as enunciated by Figure 3, the security systems use biometric data, such as fingerprints, to authenticate the identity of the users attempting to gain access to the telephone system.
According to the embodiment of Figure 3 and 3a, the user will scan the mapped finger with the biometric system and the fingerprint manager will authenticate the user’s credentials based on the comparing the linked fingerprint. In the process of comparing, the fingerprint manager will evaluate the quality of the image and if the quality of the image is acceptable, the fingerprint manager matches the read fingerprint image to a stored fingerprint image in the storage medium which has all the information of mapped fingerprint. Further, the fingerprint mapping information is stored in a fingerprint array (table) where the index or key is a fingerprint image and the associated task is the value for the array.
In one embodiment, the process of matching the quality of read biometric data to stored biometric data comprises determining whether a threshold number of points of the image of the read fingerprint data coincide with a number of points of stored fingerprint data.
If the read fingerprint data is matched to the stored fingerprint data the processor will verify if the emergency processor is activated or not and if the emergency processor is not activated, the processor will automatically activates the emergency processor and the emergency processor will initiate the method of the emergency function.
In one embodiment, the associated task is part of a chain of tasks that are automatically executed when the read fingerprint data is matched to the stored fingerprint data.
The emergency processor (301) and the emergency function is a part of the system and is not a separate mobile Application which makes it critical for the functioning of the mobile phone. Further, the other technical feature of the emergency processor is it decreases the dependency on the Central processing unit and graphics processing unit and the system makes the function 100% compatible with the main processor.
At the initiation of the emergency function the emergency processor (301) automatically activates the global positioning (GPS) processor (302) to determine a set of GPS coordinates associated with the location of a mobile device. The emergency processor (301) further transmits the received GPS location to the linked contacts with the emergency processor (301).
The GPS processor (302) is housed within or is coupled to the wireless mobile device and trilaterates its own position by processing the signals from downlinks from satellites, resulting in a longitude and latitude position that are very accurate. The position location system described could include conventional GPS receivers, as well as other known position location devices and methods.
The linked contacts may include emergency responders, such as police, a monitoring service, and/or a list of emergency contacts previously entered by the user.
In an another embodiment, after a predetermined period of time, the GPS processor (302) captures another set of GPS coordinates associated with the updated location of the mobile device. The updated set of GPS coordinates are sent to the emergency processor (301) which in turns transmits to the linked contacts. The GPS coordinates may be transmitted intermittently at a predetermined interval of time such as every 2000-5000 miliseconds or continuously, thereby providing a data log of the device's changing position so as to track the movement of the phone.
In an embodiment of the present invention, where the GPS processor (302) is unable to receive the GPS location, the GPS processor (302) collects the GPS location from the carrier and transmits the GPS location of the mobile phone to the emergency processor (301) which in turns transmits to the linked contacts with the emergency processor (301).
In another embodiment, where the GPS processor (302) is unable to receive the GPS location, the GPS processor (302) transmits the last known location of the mobile phone to the emergency processor (301) which in turns transmits the location to the linked contacts with the emergency processor (301).
The emergency processor (301) automatically activates the calling processor (304) which will start making calls to the linked contacts. The calling processor (304) is capable of activating the microphone to cause the device to retrieve audio sounds from the microphone. The calling processor (304) will lower the volume of the microphone such that no one can hear incoming voices.
In another embodiment, the emergency processor (301) automatically activates a button and system controller (303) which disables all the buttons and turn off the screen. This will ensure that the calling features, GPS transmission etc operate in a hidden mode so as to prevent anyone that views the device other than the owner from knowing that the emergency processor (301) has been activated. This is done to prevent an individual other than the owner from checking to see if the wireless device is transmitting information. It is only possible because it is embedded in the system and it has root/administrator access, which cannot be the case for a 3rd party mobile application.
Preferably, the method of the present invention will be incorporated in a cellular phone having a display to allow for interaction between the cellular telephone and the user. For convenience, the description will include reference to function keys which are commonly available on cellular phones. However, the reference to specific functions on cellular phones in describing the present method is merely by way of example. It will be understood that the method of the present invention could be incorporated in other communication systems capable of transmitting digital data within the scope of the present invention.
In another embodiment, the user will scan the mapped finger with the biometric system and the fingerprint manager will authenticate the user’s credentials based on the comparing the linked fingerprint. In the process of comparing, the fingerprint manager will evaluate the quality of the image and if the quality of the image is acceptable, the fingerprint manager matches the read fingerprint image to a stored fingerprint image in the storage medium which has all the information of mapped fingerprint.
The processor will check if the emergency processor is activated or not and if the emergency processor is activated, the processor will de-activate the emergency processor. Before de-activating, the emergency processor deactivates the GPS receiver, caller processor and the button and screen processor. The emergency processor saves the call recording on to the memory of the wireless device.
Ranges, if any, may be expressed herein as from “about” one particular value, and/or to “about” another particular value. When such a range is expressed, another embodiment includes from the one particular value and/or to the other particular value. Similarly, when values are expressed as approximations, by use of the antecedent “about,” it will be understood that the particular value forms another embodiment.
As used herein, “comprising,” “including,” “containing,” “characterized by,” and grammatical equivalents thereof are inclusive or open-ended terms that do not exclude additional, unrecited elements or method steps. “Comprising” is to be interpreted as including the more restrictive terms “consisting of” and “consisting essentially of.”
As used herein, “consisting of” and grammatical equivalents thereof exclude any element, step, or ingredient not specified in the claim.
As used herein, “consisting essentially of” and grammatical equivalents thereof limit the scope of a claim to the specified materials or steps and those that do not materially affect the basic and novel characteristic or characteristics of the claimed invention.
Although the subject matter has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. It is to be understood that the claims will not necessarily limited to the features described herein. Rather, the features are disclosed as embodiments of the Authenticated dialling system.

I/We Claim,
1. A mobile device comprising a biometric sensor for reading biometric data; a processor coupled to the biometric sensor to configure the matched biometric data; the processor linked to an emergency processor (301), the emergency processor linked to selected emergency contacts; a global positioning system (GPS) processor (302); a button and screen processor (303) and calling processor (304); the emergency processor (301), on receiving information from the processor based on mapped fingerprint, automatically activates the GPS processor (302) to determine a set of GPS coordinates associated with the location of a mobile device; the emergency processor (301) transmitting the received GPS location to the selected contacts; the emergency processor (301) automatically activates a calling processor (304) to initiate a call to linked contacts and lowers a microphone volume; the calling processor (304) initiates a call recording and the emergency processor automatically activates the button and screen processor (303) to disables all the buttons and turn off the screen during the process.
2. The mobile device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor comprises a fingerprint manager and a storage medium to incorporate the information of mapped fingerprint.
3. The mobile device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the fingerprint manager will authenticate the user’s credentials by comparing the linked fingerprint to the stored fingerprint image.
4. The mobile device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the fingerprint manager will evaluate the quality of the image and based on the quality of image the fingerprint manager matches the read fingerprint image to a stored fingerprint image in the storage medium
5. The mobile device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GPS processor (302) captures another set of GPS coordinates, after a predetermined period of time, associated with the updated location of the mobile device; the emergency processor (301) transmitting the received GPS location to the selected contacts;
6. The mobile device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GPS coordinates may be transmitted intermittently at a predetermined interval of time such as every 2000-5000 miliseconds or continuously.
7. The mobile device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GPS processor (302) obtains the GPS location from the carrier in case it is unable to receive the GPS location from the mobile device and transmits the GPS location.
8. The mobile device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the GPS processor (302) transmits the last known location of the mobile phone if the GPS processor (302) is unable to receive the GPS location from the carrier.
9. A method of informing a critical situation comprises a mobile device having a biometric sensor for reading biometric data; a processor coupled to the biometric sensor to configure the matched biometric data; the processor linked to an emergency processor, the emergency processor linked to selected emergency contacts; a global positioning system (GPS) receiver; a button and screen processor and calling processor; the emergency processsor
a. automatically activating the GPS receiver to determine a set of GPS coordinates associated with the location of a mobile device on receiving information from the processor based on mapped fingerprint,;
b. Automatically transmitting the received GPS location to the selected contacts;
c. Automatically activates a calling processor to initiate a call to linked contacts and lowering a microphone volume; the calling processor initiating a call recording and
d. Automatically activating the button and screen processor to disable all the buttons and turn off the screen during the process.