Management of Resources in Emergency and Operational Situations

• US 20100188205A1
• Filed: 11/24/2009
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Everbridge Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Hyperalert, Inc.
• Inventors: Dilbeck, Jeremy S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,068,020 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Provided is a method for designing, managing and executing response plans. Specific plan and resources are defined and a defined plan is executed either automatically or manually according to pre-determined or “real-time” parameter definitions. An executed plan notifies, by various user-defined means, actively or pre-defined parties in a near simultaneous fashion of security communications, notifications, directives and/or information. One embodiment of the system includes a component that requires a notified party to acknowledge a particular notification event by responding with a personal identification number (PIN) or calling a specified telephone number and entering the PIN. The system enables parties to be organized into groups based upon member profiles. Individual parties can be assigned to sub-groups, enabling specifically designed communications to go to the parties of any particular sub-group. Alternative means of contact can be prioritized and utilized either simultaneously or sequentially until contact with a particular party is achieved.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

defining one or more response plans, each response plan definition associated with at least one resource of two or more response resources;

specifying a first resource and a second resource, both of the plurality of resources, the specifying comprising;

defining an area on a map; and

correlating the defined area with either the first resource or the second resource;

selecting either the first resource or the second resource based upon the correlating; and

executing one plan of the one or more response plans, the executing comprising;

deploying the selected resource; and

displaying status information corresponding to the deployed resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one plan of the one or more plans comprises a notification of a particular event.

3. The method of claim 1, the correlating comprising calculating locations, based upon global positioning system (GPS) data, corresponding to the first and second resources.

4. A system of defining, managing and executing emergency response plans, comprising:

a processor;

a plurality of response resources;

categorizing the response resources into groups of response resources;

one or more response plans, each response plan associated with at least one group of response resources; and

logic, for execution on the processor, for executing one plan of the one or more response plans, the execution logic comprising;

logic for notifying a first resource of the at least one resource group associated with the one executed plan; and

logic for notifying a second resource of the at least one resource group in the event of a failure of the notifying of the first resource.