“On March 6, 2014, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple titled ‘Mobile Emergency Attack and Failsafe Detection,'” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “In 2009 Apple invented the iPhone emergency-mode processor and today, Apple is advancing the services that they could build into this system.”
Purcher reports, “Apple’s invention generally relates to the iPhone and in particular to techniques for the iPhone to detect probable emergency situations automatically and to help in automatically requesting aid for those potentially involved in emergency situations.”
“As in certain other embodiments of the invention,” Purcher reports, “in response to determining a probable emergency situation such as an automotive collision, the device can automatically make a telephone call to emergency services and/or emit an alarm in an attempt to attract any nearby people who might be capable of rendering aid.”
Much more, including Apple patent application illustrations and diagrams, in the full article here.