Abstract: Technology for an enhanced personal emergency response system (e-PERS) unit is disclosed. The e-PERS unit can transmit a general message related to a personal emergency to a personal emergency response system (PERS) computing service environment (CSE), wherein the general message includes an identification (ID) of the e-PERS unit to enable the e-PERS CSE to send the ID of the e-PERS unit to a monitoring station. The e-PERS unit can receive a unit profile message from the e-PERS CSE. The e-PERS unit can: open a voice channel to the monitoring station in response to receiving the general message from the e-PERS CSE, or receive a voice call from the monitoring station in response to receiving the ID of the e-PERS unit at the monitoring station. The e-PERS unit can include a display screen and a base unit help button.

Abstract: Technology for an enhanced personal emergency response system (e-PERS) unit is disclosed. The e-PERS unit can transmit a general message related to a personal emergency to a personal emergency response system (PERS) computing service environment (CSE), wherein the general message includes an identification (ID) of the e-PERS unit to enable the e-PERS CSE to send the ID of the e-PERS unit to a monitoring station. The e-PERS unit can receive a unit profile message from the e-PERS CSE. The e-PERS unit can: open a voice channel to the monitoring station in response to receiving the general message from the e-PERS CSE, or receive a voice call from the monitoring station in response to receiving the ID of the e-PERS unit at the monitoring station. The e-PERS unit can include a display screen and a base unit help button.

Abstract: Technology for an enhanced personal emergency response system (e-PERS) unit is disclosed. The e-PERS unit can transmit a general message related to a personal emergency to a personal emergency response system (PERS) computing service environment (CSE), wherein the general message includes an identification (ID) of the e-PERS unit to enable the e-PERS CSE to send the ID of the e-PERS unit to a monitoring station. The e-PERS unit can receive a unit profile message from the e-PERS CSE. The e-PERS unit can: open a voice channel to the monitoring station in response to receiving the general message from the e-PERS CSE, or receive a voice call from the monitoring station in response to receiving the ID of the e-PERS unit at the monitoring station. The e-PERS unit can include a display screen and a base unit help button.

Abstract: A novel apparatus and method for electronically determining whether audio signals which are present in an electrical audio device (for example, a telephone) are voice signals or, on the other hand, some type of supervisory or system-generated signals. Audio signal lines are connected to an audio detector and a digitizer. The audio detector provides an output which indicates the presence of an audio signal. The digitizer transforms any audio signal into a series of high and low level signals in some manner. The outputs from the audio detector and the digitizer are then provided to a central processing unit which is used to analyze the data. If an audio signal is detected and the digitized audio signal is determined to have a regular periodic pattern, it is presumed that the audio signal is some type of system-generated supervisory tone. If, on the other hand, the digitized audio signal does not have a regular periodic pattern, it is presumed that the audio signal is a voice signal.

Abstract: An automatic telephone message device for transmitting recorded messages to predetermined telephone numbers. The device is connected to the telephone jack and AC power source of the user's telephone, and is also connected to a standard tape recording system. One or more messages are recorded by the user on the tape recorder. The microprocessor controlled circuitry of this device provides memory space for convenient storage and modification of several telephone numbers. This device is responsive to manual, timed automatic or remotely generated activation signals for transmitting the recorded message to parties answering at the specified telephone numbers. An additional audible alarm may be set to sound at predetermined times, and if a manual switch is not closed within a specified time thereafter, the device calls the selected telephone numbers and transmits the recorded message.