Patent ID: 11943692
Assignee: TELTRUST CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. An emergency response system configured to facilitate emergency response in response to a broadcast emergency message from an emergency communications center, the emergency response system comprising:
a plurality of distributed hardware nodes, each having a long-range radio receiver configured to receive messages broadcast by the emergency communications center over a non-cellular long-range low-bandwidth radio channel that uses a radio protocol that 1) has a maximum bitrate of less than one megabit per second, and a minimum bitrate of less than one kilobit per second, and 2) has a maximum line-of-sight range of over one mile, each of at least some of the distributed hardware nodes also having the following:
a wi-fi access point component configured to, when activated, enable a corresponding local wi-fi hotspot; and
an emergency response component configured to respond to an emergency message from an emergency communications center by 1) activating the wi-fi access point component, and 2) facilitating communication between a user device and the emergency communications center by facilitating at least one of outbound communication from the communication center to a respective user device and inbound communication from the respective user device to the communication center, such that for at least some of the distributed hardware nodes that have an emergency response component, the emergency response component is configured to respond to the emergency message by facilitating inbound communication from the user device to the emergency communications center via a wi-fi channel enabled by the wi-fi access point component and the long-range radio low-bandwidth radio channel,
the emergency response component for each of one or more of the at least some of the distributed hardware nodes that have an emergency response component further configured to cause a captive portal to be rendered on the respective user device, the captive portal being configured such that the user of the user device can cause creation of messages that are communicated as an inbound communication from the user device through the emergency communication hardware node to the emergency communications center.