Method to enable Heartbeat 911

• US 20050060339A1
• Filed: 04/29/2004
• Published: 03/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Saw Concepts LLC
• Original Assignee: Saw Concepts LLC
• Inventors: McGee, Steven James
• Application Number:
  US10/709,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20050060339A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/145 avoiding end of session, e.g. keep-alive, heartbeats, resumption message or wake-up for inactive or interrupted session

Abstract

Data elements denoting military and federal systems, platforms and units symbolically as derived from structured military message codes (field unit identifiers, field unit designators) that correlate directly to geospatial symbology as processed by commercial forms engines with underlying message parsing processes provide the capability to display situational understanding information/symbols (1) vice a geographic area of interest shown as basic geometric shapes as in the Common Alert Protocol CAP final release dated 1 Apr. 2004. TCP/IP'"'"'s universally available heartbeat mechanisms provide a common and consistent send to/get from plus timing/trigger functions for data harvesting and distribution (2). Modifying the CAP or creating child domain specific schemas provide the basis of a international 911 service available on a subscription basis say to neighborhood watch programs and the like that are equipped with GPS smart phones, handhelds, laptops and like devices (3). See attached diagram depicting as a whole, SAW Concepts previous two method patent applications (1), (2) with this application (3) entitled Heartbeat 911.

Claims

1. A method of claim whereas the Common Alert Protocol CAP equivalent of the Army'"'"'s Unit Task Order-UTO heartbeat (field order) message that enables FBCB2-BFT equipped platforms to receive current “

active”

data reflecting the who, what, where, when, how often at a later time if these platforms of interest (GPS equipped handheld, laptop or smart-phones) were out of radio range, turned off, or down for maintenance or in a duress condition at the time of initial transmission serves as the basis of a national or international “

heartbeat 911”

service (3). The commercial equivalent CAP message may be part of the CAP XML schema that is modified or as a child XML schema corresponding to the domain of interest (.mil, .org, .com, other).

2. A method of claim whereas the Unit Task Order-UTO command identifies on the military side of the equation shown by the left hand table section and the commercial /DHS equivalent or translations on the right side of the table located in the figure section as UTOtranslation. The claim is that the UTO'"'"'s intent, functionality could be applied in the DHS-commercial, organizational domains as either nested structures in a modified CAP schema or as child CAP schemas to meet both military and DHS goals. The table in the figures section titled UTOtranslation provides a means to convey the main functions of the Unit Task Order.

3. Method of claim:

Development of a nested CAP schema element or derivative child schema represented as the number 3 in the included heartbeat 911 diagram—

that enables the following described functionality;

RFID Radio Frequency Identification where RFID tags if the active type, sends data to a network monitoring/relay that in turn sends the date time stamp, service provider or organization data, GPS derived location etc as harvested by the TCP/IP primitive heartbeat mechanisms (2) to a threat integration center via router/switches (SAFECOM/HISN) applying the principles behind Blue Force Tracking (BFT) (e.g., filtering applying business rules (mission thread logic in military speak) and FBCB2 as described in this patent and previous patent applications. The application layer performs the requisite association of the three and four digit codes that correspond to symbology derived from message data elements that correspond to geospatial symbols applied by geospatial applications such as ESRI Corporation as an example. The result of this method is that RFID tagged packages, devices or even humans wearing RFID tagged bracelets can automatically generate situational awareness data that is granular to ten digit GPS location data and individual platforms and equipment vice general geometric areas of interest and non-GPS derived location data characteristic of the CAP final release.