LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

• US 20130203039A1
• Filed: 02/06/2013
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rave Wireless Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Rave Wireless Incorporated
• Inventors: Piett, William T., Serra, Matthew A., Reiter, Noah J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,751,265 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/362
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires

Abstract

An apparatus for management of information for use in mitigating an emergency includes a data storage element configured to store registrant information obtained from members of a population residing in a particular geographic area and a set of survey questions, and a data storage system, the data storage system being programmed to implement a survey editor for enabling an emergency management official to create a survey for soliciting information from the members for inclusion in the registrant information, the survey editor providing, to the emergency management official, an interface for selecting a subset of questions from the set of questions, the subset of questions being selected from the set of questions based at least in part on the particular geographic area, and a survey portal for receiving, from the member, a response to the survey for integration into the reference data.

Claims

1. An apparatus for management of information for use in mitigating an emergency, said apparatus comprising a data storage element configured to store registrant information obtained from members of a population residing in a particular geographic area and a set of survey questions, and a data storage system, said data storage system being programmed to implement a survey editor for enabling an emergency management official to create a survey for soliciting information from said members for inclusion in said registrant information, said survey editor providing, to said emergency management official, an interface for selecting a subset of questions from said set of questions, said subset of questions being selected from said set of questions based at least in part on said particular geographic area, and a survey portal for receiving, from said member, a response to said survey for integration into said reference data.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said data storage system is further configured to implement a business intelligence platform for receiving instructions from an emergency management official for identifying a subset of said registrant information based at least in part on a registrant profile that includes a geographic location, and retrieving said subset of said registrant information.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said business intelligence platform is configured to inspect credentials of said emergency management official and to control access to said registrant information based at least in part on said credentials.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said data storage system is further configured to implement a pointcaster configured to send emergency messages to selected members of said population based on both geographic location of said members as specified in said registrant information and matching an element of the subset of questions being selected.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein said pointcaster is further configured to receive response messages from said selected registrants in response to said emergency messages.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said data processing system is further configured to provide access to said registrant information to a call-taker of a 9-1-1 call.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said data processing system is further configured to restrict access to selected portions of said registrant information based at least in part on credentials of said call-taker.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said survey editor comprises an interface for receiving a free-form question and including said free-form question in said survey with said subset of questions.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said survey editor comprises an interactive map interface for receiving, from said emergency management official, a graphical representation of said particular geographic area.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said survey editor is further configured to inspect credentials of said emergency service official and to restrict survey editing by said emergency service official based at least in part on said credentials.

11. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said business intelligence platform comprises an interactive map interface for receiving, from said emergency management official, a graphical representation of said particular geographic area.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said emergency is a result of a terrorist attack.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said data processing system is configured to interact with a first emergency management official and with a second emergency management official, and wherein said data processing system is further configured to deny access to selected registrant information to said first emergency management official and to grant access to said selected registrant information to said second emergency management official.