US 12,451,001 B2
Use of crowdsourcing as basis to predict emergency impact and to facilitate emergency response
Karina Levitian, Austin, TX (US); Charles Brian Pinkerton, Boulder, CO (US); Sunil Ramesh, Cupertino, CA (US); and Michael Cutter, Golden, CO (US)
Assigned to Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/932,435.
Application 17/932,435 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/860,649, filed on Jul. 8, 2022, granted, now 11,763,656.
Prior Publication US 2024/0013653 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G08B 31/00 (2006.01); G08B 25/00 (2006.01); G08B 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 31/00 (2013.01) [G08B 25/006 (2013.01); G08B 27/005 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using crowdsourcing to predict and respond to emergency impact, the method comprising:
receiving into a computing system emergency-state reporting provided by multiple customer premises in a region;
determining by the computing system, based on the received emergency-state reporting provided by the multiple customer premises in the region, that a region-wide emergency situation exists in the region; and
taking action by the computing system, in response to the determining, based on the emergency-state reporting provided by the multiple customer premises in the region, that the region-wide emergency situation exists in the region,
wherein taking action by the computing system in response to the determining, based on the emergency-state reporting provided by the multiple customer premises in the region, that the region-wide emergency situation exists in the region, comprises sending by the computing system one or more messages to each of the multiple customer premises in the region, the one or more messages triggering at each of the multiple customer premises at least one customer-premises operation comprising causing one or more emergency-state sensors at the customer premises to increase their sensitivity to detecting emergency state, wherein increasing sensitivity of each of the one or more emergency-state sensors to detecting emergency state comprises reducing a threshold of the sensor for sensing emergency state.