Patent ID: 9177455
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. A method for discouraging a crime against a user, comprising: capturing, by a mobile phone held or worn by the user, images of current environment surrounding the user, the capturing occurring at predetermined time intervals; subsequent to the capturing, receiving, by the mobile phone, information indicating an activation event; and in response to the information indicating an activation event, capturing, by the mobile phone, data associated with the potential perpetrator of the crime against the user holding or wearing the mobile phone, including one or more images and audio of the potential perpetrator; contemporaneously sending, by the mobile phone, the image and audio data associated with the potential perpetrator and a subset of the images of environment captured during a predetermined time period that is immediately preceding a time the information is received, to a secure and remote storage location, wherein said capturing and sending cannot be reversed nor canceled by the user nor the potential perpetrator, and wherein the secure and remote storage location is configured to certify that the captured image and audio data are stored in a format that is admissible in a court of law by meeting evidentiary standards; and contemporaneously notifying, by the mobile phone, the potential perpetrator that the image and audio data associated with the potential perpetrator has been irreversibly captured and sent to a secure and remote storage location, by the mobile phone, so as to attempt to discourage the potential perpetrator from further proceeding with the crime, wherein contemporaneously notifying includes contemporaneously emitting audible notifications from the mobile phone.