Privately Provisioned Survival Supplies Sub-Unit-Based Delivery Method

• US 20070219422A1
• 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:
  US11/464,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20070219422A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40

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;

segregating at least some survival supplies as correspond to a given authorized beneficiary to form a corresponding unit;

forming the survival supplies of the unit into a plurality of discrete deliverable sub-units, wherein at least one of the discrete deliverable sub-units comprises a quantity and selection of survival supplies as comprehensively correspond to survival needs of the authorized beneficiary for a particular corresponding period of usage time.

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 segregating at least some survival supplies as correspond to a given authorized beneficiary to form a unit comprises segregating substantially all of the survival supplies as correspond to a given authorized beneficiary to form a unit.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein segregating at least some survival supplies as correspond to a given authorized beneficiary to form a unit comprises segregating a sufficient quantity and selection of survival supplies as will reasonably be required by the authorized beneficiary for a first period of time.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the first period of time comprises about one year.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the particular corresponding period of usage time comprises a period of time that is less than the first period of time.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the particular corresponding period of usage time comprises about one fourth of the first period of time.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the survival supplies comprise both consumable survival supplies and non-consumable survival supplies.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein forming the survival supplies of the unit into a plurality of discrete deliverable sub-units further comprises including functionally identical non-consumable survival supplies amongst a plurality of the plurality of discrete deliverable sub-units such that the plurality of discrete deliverable sub-units in the aggregate contain a redundant selection of the functionally identical non-consumable survival supplies.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the functionally identical non-consumable survival supplies comprise at least one of:

a hand tool;

a food preparation item;

a navigational aid;

a fire starting aid;

survival instructions;

a wireless communications device;

a clothing item;

bed clothing.

19. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

in response to a civilly-catastrophic event-based time of need, delivering to the authorized beneficiary at least a first, but not all, of the discrete deliverable sub-units that comprises a quantity and selection of survival supplies as comprehensively corresponds to survival needs of the authorized beneficiary for the particular corresponding period of usage time.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising:

well subsequent to delivering the first of the discrete deliverable sub-units to the authorized beneficiary, and prior to expiration of the particular corresponding period of usage time, delivering to the authorized beneficiary at least a second of the discrete deliverable sub-units that comprises a quantity and selection of survival supplies as comprehensively corresponds to survival needs of the authorized beneficiary for the particular corresponding period of usage time.

21. The method of claim 1 wherein forming the survival supplies of the unit into a plurality of discrete deliverable sub-units, wherein at least one of the discrete deliverable sub-units comprises a quantity and selection of survival supplies as comprehensively correspond to survival needs of the authorized beneficiary for a particular corresponding period of usage time further comprises:

forming a first discrete deliverable sub-unit that comprises a quantity and selection of survival supplies as comprehensively correspond to survival needs of the authorized beneficiary for a first corresponding period of usage time;

forming a second discrete deliverable sub-unit that comprises a quantity and selection of survival supplies as comprehensively correspond to survival needs of the authorized beneficiary for a second corresponding period of usage time.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein the first and second corresponding periods of usage time are substantially identical.

23. The method of claim 21 wherein the first corresponding period of usage time is substantially shorter than the second corresponding period of usage time.

24. The method of claim 1 wherein segregating at least some survival supplies as correspond to a given authorized beneficiary to form a corresponding unit comprises including at least one item in the corresponding unit that is specific to this particular given authorized beneficiary.