Patent ID: 9646473
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A61B,G08B

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: an alerting device comprising an alerting element, the alerting device being interchangeable with a plurality of wearable accessories; a wearable accessory formed to receive the alerting device such that the alerting device is not visible while the accessory is worn; and one or more activation elements disposed on the wearable accessory and formed to activate the alerting device wherein the alerting element sends an alert signal in response to receiving an activation signal from the one or more activation elements, the activation signal being one of a plurality of different activation signals generated based on an interaction pattern of the one or more activation elements, each activation signal associated with a different alerting function, wherein one or more custom notifications are created for the alerting device, each custom notification associated with an interaction pattern of one or more different activation elements of the alerting device such that a particular custom notification is sent in response to an associated interaction pattern of the one or more activation elements being used to activate the alerting device, and wherein a notification associated with the interaction pattern of the one or more activation elements is determined and the notification is sent to one or more predefined contacts associated with the one or more activation elements the user interacted with.