Method and system for situation tracking and notification

• US 20090015429A1
• Filed: 07/22/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TechRadium, Inc.
• Original Assignee: TechRadium, Inc.
• Inventors: Piccioni, Robert L.
• Application Number:
  US12/220,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20090015429A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.360
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence

Abstract

Alerts (13) are generated at mobile entity devices (12) and servers (16). The alerts are examined at the servers and handled by the server and/or forwarded to a clearing house (22). At the clearing house, emergency events (40) are created in response to the alerts by an event module (36). A notify module (38) compares events to an information need (304) associated with a subscriber profile (46) to determine whether a subscriber associated with the subscriber profile should be notified about events. The notify module also handles interactive search requests from a client (20) for the events.

Claims

1. A method for situation tracking comprising:

providing at least one public safety event at a clearing house;

providing a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile;

determining at least one notification location between a first location and a second location;

selecting at least one selected subscriber from the subscribers based on the notification location and the subscriber profile; and

generating a respective notification to each of the selected subscribers.

2. The method for situation tracking according to claim 1, wherein each public safety event has respective associated location information comprising at least one of a zip code, a global positioning system based location, a city, a state, a street and a street intersection.

3. The method for situation tracking according to claim 1, wherein each public safety event has respective associated location information and wherein determining the notification location comprises:

determining the first location based on the location information;

determining the second location based on the location information; and

wherein the notification location is geographically located between the first and second locations.

4. The method for situation tracking according to claim 3, wherein selecting the selected subscriber further comprises selecting the selected subscriber based on the location information.

5. The method for situation tracking according to claim 1, wherein providing the public safety event comprises:

receiving an alert at the clearing house; and

generating the public safety event based on the alert.

6. A method for situation tracking comprising:

providing at least one public safety event at a clearing house;

receiving information related to at least a selected one of the public safety events; and

displaying the selected one of the public safety events to a user.

7. The method for situation tracking according to claim 6 and further comprising:

generating a new public safety event based on the selected one of the public safety events and the information;

associating the new public event and the selected one of the public safety events in the clearing house; and

generating a notification to a contact associated with the selected one of the public safety events.

8. The method for situation tracking according to claim 6 and further comprising:

modifying the selected one of the public safety events based on the information; and

generating a notification to a contact associated with the selected one of the public safety events.

9. The method for situation tracking according to claim 6 and further comprising selecting the selected one of the public safety events based on a ranking of the selected ones of the public safety events based on at least one of the location information and a detail element, the detail element having at least one of an image, a description, a suspect, an identifier, a category, an offense type, a case type, a date, a time, an expiration date, an access level, a contact, a map and location information.

10. A method for information management comprising:

providing at least one public safety event at a clearing house;

providing a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile, each subscriber profile having at least one geographic area of interest to the subscriber and at least one type;

determining a first plurality of subscribers having profiles having related geographic areas of interest;

determining a second plurality of subscribers having profiles having related types; and

generating a notification including at least one of the first and second pluralities.

11. The method for information management according to claim 10 and further comprising:

determining a relationship between the first and second pluralities; and

generating a further notification including ones of the first and second pluralities having the relationship.

12. The method for information management according to claim 11 and further comprising communicating the notification and the further notification a public safety agency subscriber.

13. A system for situation tracking comprising:

logic encoded on a computer readable medium operable to;

provide at least one public safety event at a clearing house;

provide a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile;

determine at least one notification location between a first location and a second location;

select at least one selected subscriber from the subscribers based on the notification location and the subscriber profile; and

generate a respective notification to each of the selected subscribers.

14. A system for situation tracking comprising:

logic encoded on a computer readable medium operable to;

provide at least one public safety event at a clearing house;

receive information related to at least a selected one of the public safety events; and

display the selected one of the public safety events to a user.

15. A system for information management comprising:

logic encoded on a computer readable medium operable to;

provide at least one public safety event at a clearing house;

provide a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile, each subscriber profile having at least one geographic area of interest to the subscriber and at least one type;

determine a first plurality of subscribers having profiles having related geographic areas of interest;

determine a second plurality of subscribers having profiles having related types; and

generate a notification including at least one of the first and second pluralities.