Automatic Notification of Potential Emergency Condition During Travel

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking the progress of a trip where a person or persons wish to have a third party automatically informed of a delayed return. For long duration trips and/or trips to distant destinations, people typically make provision for having their pets and/or children watched over. However for short trips, they typically do not, especially with respect to their pets. The disclosed methods provide monitoring of a trip's progress such that if a traveler doesn't return home by a certain time, a third party is notified, thus avoiding a prolonged period of time wherein the pets and/or children are unattended, especially in the event of a catastrophic accident. The third party may be notified if an arrival time is predicted to be delayed, and when an actual arrival occurs. Provision is also included for adjusting the trip duration to delay or advance a designated arrival time.

主权项

1. A computerized method performed using one or more processors and a cellular communications network for notification of a potential emergency condition, comprising:
receiving from a first user:
cellular phone numbers for one or more designated travelers;a designated date and time for an expected arrival (hereinafter: the designated arrival time) at an arrival location;one or more emergency contact persons to be notified of a potential emergency condition; andcontact information for the one or more emergency contact persons; tracking using at least GPS data, locations of the one or more designated travelers to determine a proximity of the one or more designated travelers with respect to the arrival location; and determining at the designated arrival time, that a potential emergency condition exists because the one or more travelers have not reached the arrival location.