Privately Provisioned Survival Supplies Delivery Method

• US 20070219421A1
• Filed: 08/15/2006
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Barrett H. Moore
• Original Assignee: Barrett H. Moore
• Inventors: Moore, Barrett H.
• Application Number:
  US11/464,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20070219421A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

A private civil security subscription mechanism serves to facilitate the provision of survival supplies for corresponding authorized beneficiaries. These supplies may or may not include gender-specific contents that are not specific to a given such beneficiary. These supplies can be retained and delivered as an aggregated unit or can, if desired, be parsed for storage and/or delivery purposes into smaller sub-units. Items as supplied by third parties (including the beneficiary themselves) can also be included with the survival supplies for later delivery. If desired, additional amounts of such supplies than are necessarily required to support such beneficiaries with supplies for a given authorized beneficiary being stored in a plurality of locations. The delivery process will accommodate, if desired, the use of event categorizations to direct the use of differing delivery protocols.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accepting pre-catastrophe consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based delivery of survival supplies for authorized beneficiaries;

categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories;

when a civilly-catastrophic event as corresponds to a first one of the civilly-catastrophic event categories occurs, delivering the survival supplies to an authorized beneficiary provided the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery;

when a civilly-catastrophic event as corresponds to a second one of the civilly-catastrophic event categories occurs, automatically delivering the survival supplies to the authorized beneficiary regardless of whether the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein accepting pre-catastrophe consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers comprises accepting the pre-catastrophe consideration-based private civil security subscriptions at a for-profit business.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the subscriptions comprise at least one of:

time-limited rights of delivery;

event-limited rights of delivery;

inheritable rights of delivery;

rights of delivery predicated upon a series of periodic payments;

rights of delivery predicated upon a one-time payment;

ownership-based rights of delivery;

non-transferable rights of delivery;

transferable rights of delivery;

membership-based rights of delivery;

fractionally-based rights of delivery;

non-ownership-based rights of delivery;

option-based rights of delivery.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein accepting pre-catastrophe consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers comprises accepting pre-catastrophe consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to a plurality of life-sustaining resources in addition to delivery of the survival supplies.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein accepting pre-catastrophe consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based delivery of survival supplies comprises accepting pre-catastrophe consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based delivery of a plurality of life-sustaining resources as pertain to a plurality of differing categories of life'"'"'s necessities.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the plurality of differing categories of life'"'"'s necessities comprise at least one of:

hydration;

nourishment;

medicine;

shelter;

environmentally-borne threat abatement.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the civilly-catastrophic event comprises an event that substantially disrupts society'"'"'s infrastructure and ability to provide at least one life-sustaining resource.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the civilly-catastrophic event comprises at least one of:

a natural disaster;

an unnaturally-caused disaster.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the natural disaster comprises at least one of:

a severe weather event;

a severe geophysical event;

a severe astronomical event;

a severe disease-based event;

a severe natural shortage of a life-sustaining resource.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the unnaturally-caused disaster comprises at least one of:

an act of intentional aggression;

an accident that results in public dispersal of a severe environmentally borne danger.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to their relative temporal impact.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to their geographic scope of impact.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to a likely-impacted population group.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to a likely-impacted population group further comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to a relative size of the likely-impacted population group.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to a corresponding season.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to a corresponding time of day.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to a corresponding weekly day.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events, at least in part, with respect to corresponding weather.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein categorizing a plurality of different civilly-catastrophic events to provide a plurality of civilly-catastrophic event categories comprises categorizing the different civilly-catastrophic events with respect to at least four different categories.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies to an authorized beneficiary provided the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery comprises receiving the current request within no more than a predetermined period of time prior to occurrence of the civilly-catastrophic event.

21. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies to an authorized beneficiary provided the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery comprises receiving the current request subsequent to the civilly-catastrophic event having begun.

22. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies to an authorized beneficiary provided the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery comprises receiving the current request from the authorized beneficiary.

23. The method of claim 22 wherein receiving the current request from the authorized beneficiary further comprises confirming an identity of the authorized beneficiary.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein confirming an identity of the authorized beneficiary comprises receiving a predetermined secret from the authorized beneficiary.

25. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies to an authorized beneficiary provided the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery further comprises delivering the survival supplies to a specific location as is identified by the authorized beneficiary when making the current request.

26. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies to an authorized beneficiary provided the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery further comprises delivering the survival supplies to a specific location that is determined prior to the civilly-catastrophic event occurring.

27. The method of claim 1 wherein automatically delivering the survival supplies to the authorized beneficiary comprises first at least attempting to deliver the survival supplies to a first specific location as has been previously identified for the authorized beneficiary prior to the civilly-catastrophic event occurring.

28. The method of claim 27 wherein automatically delivering the survival supplies to the authorized beneficiary further comprises, when the authorized beneficiary is not available at the first specific location to receive the survival supplies, automatically at least attempting to deliver the survival supplies to a second specific location as has been previously identified for the authorized beneficiary prior to the civilly-catastrophic event occurring.

29. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies comprises initially delivering all of the survival supplies to which the authorized beneficiary is ultimately entitled.

30. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies comprises initially delivering only a part of the survival supplies to which the authorized beneficiary is ultimately entitled.

31. The method of claim 30 wherein delivering the survival supplies further comprises subsequently delivering an additional part of the survival supplies to which the authorized beneficiary is ultimately entitled to a different location than to where that initial delivery is provided.

32. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering the survival supplies comprises leaving at least a portion of the survival supplies at a predetermined location for the authorized beneficiary that is ultimately entitled to the survival supplies regardless of whether that authorized beneficiary is present to accept delivery.

33. The method of claim 32 wherein leaving at least a portion of the survival supplies at a predetermined location comprises leaving the at least a portion of the survival supplies in a locked container.

34. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

when a civilly-catastrophic event as corresponds to a first one of the civilly-catastrophic event categories threatens, delivering the survival supplies to an authorized beneficiary provided the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery.

35. The method of claim 34 further comprising:

when a civilly-catastrophic event as corresponds to a second one of the civilly-catastrophic event categories threatens, automatically delivering the survival supplies to the authorized beneficiary regardless of whether the authorized beneficiary makes a current request for such delivery.