PRODUCT RECALL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM

• US 20070069004A1
• Filed: 11/13/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Adler
• Original Assignee: Robert Adler
• Inventors: Adler, Robert
• Application Number:
  US11/559,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20070069004A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/49 for identifying locations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method of broadcasting product-recall advisory alerts via communications networks where a central notification computer is provided to broadcast advisory alerts to electronic device addresses stored in a subscriber database in a text, oral, pictorial, and computer retrievable format. The subscriber database contains subscriber data sets which each include the electronic device address, subscriber year of birth, and at least one geographic location associated with the electronic device address. When an advisory alert is initiated due to a product-recall, the affected subscribers are determined by geographic area, age, recreational activities, elderly parents, or other demographics is determined, and a geographic area defined by a perimeter is associated with the advisory alert. An algorithm retrieves addresses of the electronic devices associated with affected subscribers and the advisory alert is transmitted to the electronic device addresses.

Claims

1. A Product Recall Notification System comprising:

coupling a central notification computer to a communications network;

creating a subscriber database on said central notification computer, said subscriber database including subscriber communication contact data address for at least one electronic communication device accessible by subscriber;

maintaining the subscriber database in a computer retrievable format for access by the central notification computer;

polling for a product-recall;

compiling a list of subscribers affected by said product-recall and creating an advisory alert of a product-recall;

providing a means to initiate an advisory alert broadcast from the central notification computer; and

transmitting said advisory alert from said central notification computer to the subscriber'"'"'s electronic communication device through said communications network.

2. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1 wherein said advisory alert is sent through said communications network to said electronic communication device accessible by the subscriber.

3. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1 including the step of associating a geographic area with said advisory alert, wherein the geographic area is defined by a perimeter.

4. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1 wherein the step of transmitting said advisory alert is an automated distribution module executable at the notification computer.

5. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1 wherein the communications network is a telephone network, and the electronic device addresses are telephone numbers.

6. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1, wherein the advisory alert is in text format;

and the means to transmit an advisory alert to a plurality of electronic device addresses is an automated text messaging module executable at the notification computer.

7. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1, wherein the advisory alerts in text format are received by PDA'"'"'s addressable via the electronic device address.

8. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1, wherein said product-recall is a drug.

9. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1, wherein the product-recall is food.

10. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 1, wherein the product-recall is a consumer product.

11. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 10, wherein said product-recall is a neighborhood product defect.

12. A Product Recall Notification System comprising:

coupling a central notification computer to a communications network and a global computer network;

creating a subscriber database on said central notification computer, said subscriber database including a subscriber'"'"'s date of birth and communication contact data address for at least one electronic communication device accessible by subscriber;

maintaining the subscriber database in a computer retrievable format for access by the central notification computer;

polling manufacturing and government databases placed on said global computer network for product-recalls;

calculating a product-recall age group affected by said product-recalls and compiling a list of subscribers potentially affected by said product-recall;

creating an advisory alert;

providing a means to initiate an advisory alert broadcast from the central notification computer; and

transmitting said advisory alert to said list of subscribers.

13. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12 wherein said advisory alert is sent through said communications network to said electronic communication device accessible by the subscriber.

14. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12 wherein said advisory alert is sent through said global computer network to said electronic communication device accessible by the subscriber.

15. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12 including the step of associating a geographic area with said advisory alert, wherein the geographic area is defined by a perimeter.

16. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12 wherein the step of transmitting said advisory alert is an automated distribution module executable at the notification computer.

17. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12 wherein the communications network is a telephone network, and the electronic device addresses are telephone numbers.

18. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12, wherein the advisory alert is in text format;

and the means to transmit an advisory alert to a plurality of electronic device addresses is an automated text messaging module executable at the notification computer.

19. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12, wherein said product-recall is a drug.

20. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12, wherein the product-recall is food.

21. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12, wherein the product-recall is a consumer product.

22. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 21, wherein said product-recall is a product defect located in a localized neighborhood.

23. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12, wherein the advisory alerts in text format are received by PDA'"'"'s addressable via the electronic device address.

24. The Product Recall Notification System according to claim 12, wherein said subscriber list includes the subscriber'"'"' demographics.