US Patent 11477628 Community-based response system

An example of a medical equipment and responder management system is configured to register potential responders to an emergency event, receive event information including an event location and an event type, provide an automatic notification that includes the event information and mapping information to first and second mobile computing devices associated with first responder and second responders selected from the potential responders, receive a confirmation that the first responder will bring a first item of registered medical equipment to the event, and provide an indication to the second mobile device that the second responder should proceed to the event without the first item of equipment, where the mapping information indicates a location of the first item of equipment located near a first mobile device current location and the current locations of the first and second mobile devices relative to the locations of the event and the first item of equipment.