CITIZEN COMMUNICATION CENTER

• US 20070216535A1
• Filed: 03/14/2006
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: C Three Holdings Limited Liability Company
• Original Assignee: John Carrino
• Inventors: Carrino, John
• Granted Patent: US 7,301,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations

Abstract

A versatile Citizen Alert System is connected to Internet and private databases to acquire real time information useful for subscribed users. During registration, users are required to provide multimedia contact information, including telephone numbers, cell phone numbers, pager information, Blackberry or PDA information, e-mail address, and physical address, along with user defined sensitivities to alerts, including sensitivities to natural emergencies, man made emergencies and professional requirements. The system has a local or remote administrator that constantly analyzes the acquired data in accordance with requirements of each and every user, orders the data to generate alert information specific to a user, and communicates the alert to each and every user using multiple delivery platforms. A user specific, secured web page providing details of alert and hyperlinks constitutes an additional information source.

Claims

1. A Citizen Alert System, comprising:

a plurality of subscribed users, each providing user specific data comprising multiple contact information including telephone number, cell phone numbers, PDA or Blackberry access, e-mail address, physical street address and declared sensitivities with respect to natural or man made emergency situations and professional requirements in an initial registration process;

a computer system with storage to retain securely said user specific data;

said computer system connected to Internet and private data bases, homeland security links, law enforcement links and weather information acquiring current information that meet needs of said subscribed users based on users address and declared sensitivities;

a local or remote Citizen Alert System administrator evaluating collected information and ordering according to user specific preferences and physical location to generate user specific alert information;

delivering said user specific alert information to said user using multiple platforms required by said user specific data established by said user during registration;

said Citizen Alert System posting a user specific web page providing detailed alert information and hyperlinks for obtaining additional information;

whereby the user is provided with specific alert information in real time that matches user specific preferences declared by the user.

2. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said local or remote administrator is an artificially intelligent computer program.

3. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said local or remote administrator is an operator programming an artificially intelligent computer program.

4. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said user specific data can be easily changed by the user.

5. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said user specific data includes sensitivities to natural emergency situations, including warm or cold climatic conditions, heavy rain, icing conditions, tornado approaches, hurricane warnings, and earthquake predictions.

6. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said user specific data includes sensitivities to man-made emergency situations including public health concerns, terror strikes, neighborhood warnings, biohazard and chemical hazard threats issued by authorities, traffic accidents and chemical spills close to the user'"'"'s residential address.

7. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said user specific data includes sensitivities to man-made emergency situations including public health concerns, terror strikes, neighborhood warnings, biohazard and chemical hazard threats issued by authorities, traffic accidents and chemical spills close to the user'"'"'s business address

8. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said user specific data includes sensitivities to professional tasks, including school or office closings, events prompting parental concern, and team coordination of specific tasks.

9. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said system is used by municipalities and government officials to issue alerts to first responders in an emergency.

10. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said system is used by businesses to issue alerts to business employees and consultants of emergency situations, traffic conditions, closed offices, new found business threats and security alerts.

11. A Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said system is used by membership organizations to issue alerts that coordinate the activities of team members.

12. The Citizen Alert System as recited by claim 1, wherein said system posts an additional web page that logs all the alerts delivered by the system with hyperlinks for additional information.