Patent ID: 9301088
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G01C,G01S,G08B,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A location-based tsunami alerting method comprising: receiving, by a processor of a mobile computing device, one or more sets of geographical coordinates, each set of geographical coordinates corresponding to a zone of danger resulting from a tsunami; computing, by the processor of the mobile computing device, a geographic zone of danger based on the one or more sets of geographical coordinates; determining, by the processor of the mobile computing device, a current geographic location for the mobile computing device; responsive to determining that the mobile computing device's current geographic location being in the computed geographic zone of danger, calculating, by the processor of the mobile computing device, a shortest safest path to direct the mobile computing device out of the computed geographic zone of danger; rendering, by the processor of the mobile computing device, in the mobile computing device, a set of personalized navigational instructions from the determined geographic location for the mobile computing device to a geographic location outside of the computed geographic zone of danger, wherein the set of personalized navigational instructions includes a visual map and/or path corresponding to step-by-step textual instructions along with a current pointer that points a user of the mobile computing device in a direction of the shortest safest path to get out of the computed geographic zone of danger based on the determined current geographic location of the mobile computing device and wherein the current pointer points to a first zone of safety; and, responsive to tracking the mobile computing device changing direction away from the first zone of safety, determining, by the processor of the mobile computing device, a second zone of safety that is closer to the mobile computing device's current geographic location.