Patent ID: 7987277

Claim:
A safety information transmission device, comprising: a reception unit that receives, via a network, safety information indicating whether a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal when biometric authentication of the user is successful; a storage unit that retains user information containing a contact method of the safety information with respect to a contact destination specified by the user, the contact destination corresponding to the contact method, and contact restriction information selectively indicating validity of the contact destination only by in-person authentication and the validity of the contact destination by both the in-person authentication and substitute authentication; a control unit that determines, when the contact method in the user information is a contact by an electronic message and the contact destination in the user information is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information being received to the electronic message address; and a transmission unit that transmits the electronic message to the electronic message address in accordance with the determination of the control unit; wherein the reception unit receives, via the network, the safety information that is input by a substitute person different from the user, the safety information being received by the information processing terminal with an alternative operation to the biometric authentication being set as a condition of the in-person authentication, the alternative operation being for the substitute authentication; and the control unit determines, when the safety information being input by the substitute person is received, whether to communicate the safety information to the electronic message address as the contact destination specified by the user, according to the contact restriction information in the user information that indicates the validity of the contact destination by the substitute authentication.