Methods and apparatuses for emergency notifications to the hearing impaired

摘要

Systems and methods for communicating emergency alerts to a hearing-impaired user are disclosed. Queries are performed to one or more emergency alert databases to develop emergency alert notifications. At least some of the emergency alert notifications are filtered responsive to user selected criteria to select one or more filtered emergency alerts. An attention desired indicator is transmitted to a hearing-impaired user device that subscribes to a hearing-impaired relay service supported by the server if the one or more filtered emergency alerts are present. The filtered emergency alerts are transmitted to the hearing-impaired user device in response to a emergency information query from that user device.

主权项

1. A server associated with a hearing-impaired relay service for supporting interpretive services and providing emergency alerts to hearing-impaired users, the server comprising:
a memory configured to store computing instructions; and a processor operably coupled to the memory and configured to execute the computing instructions to:
support communication sessions for hearing-impaired user devices through the hearing-impaired relay service while the hearing-impaired user devices communicate with a remote device associated with a hearing-capable user;receive emergency alert notifications from one or more external emergency alert services over an external network;filter at least some of the received emergency alert notifications responsive to user selected criteria to select one or more filtered emergency alerts;transmit an attention desired indicator directly to the hearing-impaired user devices that are supported by the hearing-impaired relay service if the one or more filtered emergency alerts are present that fit within the user selected criteria for the corresponding hearing-impaired user device;receive an emergency information query from the hearing-impaired user device that is sent responsive to the attention desired indicator;generate a video recording with a sign language translation of the received emergency alert notifications; andtransmit at least one of the one or more filtered emergency alerts comprising the video recording with its corresponding sign language translation directly to the hearing-impaired user devices in response to the emergency information query from the hearing-impaired user device.