TRAVELER SAFETY INFORMATION CORRELATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

• US 20090012798A1
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Corporate Services Group Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Molina, Robert, Elahi, Shaikh, McConnell, James T.
• Application Number:
  US11/772,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20090012798A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A traveler safety information correlation system is provided. An interactive, real-time mapping tool is combined with traveler location and alert information data sources. Recorded locations corresponding to human assets are overlaid on geographical maps enabling an operator to determine real or near real-time locations of human assets, such as an organizations employees. Traveler location information may obtained from computerized reservation systems, credit card processing systems, cellular and wireless computer networks, and/or other systems. The traveler safety information correlation system may also be used to generate alerts and to deliver information messages to human assets.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a database module having information corresponding to a plurality of human assets;

a graphical user interface module displaying at least one geographical representation, the geographical representation including one or more points representative of human assets, wherein each of the one or more points are positioned on the geographical representation at locations corresponding to a location of an associated human asset;

an external data module receiving data from two or more electronic information sources, the external data module coding information from the two or more electronic information sources to each of the one or more points, wherein at least one of the two or more electronic information sources provides information corresponding to a recorded location of a human asset, and at least one other of the two or more electronic information sources provides situational information corresponding to the recorded location; and

a communication module for communicating information to the human asset.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a network browser client executing on a computing device.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one geographical representation comprises at least one navigable real-time map and each of the one or more points are points on the map representative of at least one recorded geographic location of the associated human asset.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the information source providing information corresponding to the recorded location of a human asset comprises at least one source selected from the group consisting of a passenger record system, a flight information system, a hotel reservation system, a financial account system, a GPS/RFID tracking system, a cellular telephone system, and a vehicle location system.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the information source providing situation information corresponding to a particular location comprises at least one source selected from the group consisting of a newswire system, an Internet search engine portal, a weather information system, and a travel risk system.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein each of the one or more points are selectable to display identification information corresponding to the associated human asset.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the identification information comprises at least a name, and a last location of the human asset.

8. A traveler information safety correlation apparatus comprising:

a database module containing information on a plurality of human assets;

a graphical user interface module for displaying information on the plurality of human assets in a geographical context, wherein each human asset is coded as a point on an interactive, map;

a external data interface module for receiving electronic data from two or more external information sources;

an alert module for generating a user alert corresponding to one or more human assets based on information from the external data interface module; and

a communication module for sending information to one or more human assets via the graphical user interface module.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of human assets comprise employees of an organization.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the graphical user interface module delivers content to a user remotely over a communications network.

11. The system according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the two or more external information sources provides information corresponding to a recorded location of a human asset, and at least one other of the two or more electronic information sources provides situational information corresponding to the recorded location.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the information source providing information corresponding to the recorded location of a human asset comprises at least one source selected from the group consisting of a passenger record system, a flight information system, a hotel reservation system, a financial account system, a GPS/RFID tracking system, a cellular telephone system, and a vehicle location system.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the information source providing situation information corresponding to a particular location comprises at least one source selected from the group consisting of a newswire system, an Internet search engine portal, a weather information system, and a government-owned travel risk system.

14. The system according to claim 8, wherein each points is selectable to display identification information corresponding to the associated human asset.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the identification information comprises at least a name, and a last location of the human asset.

16. A method comprising:

populating a database of human asset information;

determining a location of one or more of the human assets;

identifying warning information associated with the location; and

outputting a user alert to a graphical user interface if a location of at least one of the human assets has warning information associated with it.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein determining a location of one or more of the human assets comprises, for each human asset, receiving information from at least one electronic information source selected from the group consisting of a passenger record system, a flight information system, a hotel reservation system, a financial account system, a GPS/RFID tracking system, a cellular telephone system, and a vehicle location system.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein identifying warning information associated with the location comprises receiving data from at least one source selected from the group consisting of a newswire system, an Internet search engine portal, a weather information system, and a government-owned travel risk system.

19. The method according to claim 16, further comprising outputting a geographic representation including representations of each human asset as a point on an interactive map to a graphical user interface, wherein each asset is represented by a point located on the geographic representation at the determined location for that human asset.

20. The method according to claim 19, further comprising outputting identification information about a human asset when the point associated with that asset is selected on the graphical user interface, wherein displaying, wherein outputting identification information comprises displaying at least a name and a location of the human asset.