Patent ID: 8380158
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A communications system for collecting, processing, and transmitting information signals over communications networks originating within the same or different communications networks, the communications system comprising: trigger decision means for determining whether to develop, identify, or utilize triggers related to a receipt of information received within a first communications network by automatically monitoring simultaneously for the receipt of information about an initiation of at least one emergency response system parameter and the receipt of information about an initiation of at least one independent user-initiated action parameter, and then for determining whether to initiate at least one of family, community unit, enterprise, and government emergency communications plan based on the receipt of the information thus received, wherein the communications plan includes an alertment protocol for each of a plurality of users, and wherein the alertment protocol for each of the plurality of users includes an identity of a plurality of information recipients and a user-provided time period value when the alertment protocol is to be executed following the receipt of the information; database means for storing the alertment protocols, and information related to the triggers, the plurality of users and the plurality of information recipients; and notification means responsive to the receipt of the information for transmitting multi-modal signals simultaneously over one or more different communications networks, one of which may be the first communications network, based on the alertment protocol to each of the identified plurality of recipients, wherein the signals contain at least information related to the triggers.