Systems, methods and computer program products for automatically monitoring police records for a crime profile

• US 6,173,284 B1
• Filed: 05/19/1998
• Issued: 01/09/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: City of Charlotte, University of South Carolina
• Original Assignee: University of Charlotte City of Charlotte
• Inventors: Brown, Mary Maureen
• Primary Examiner(s): HOMERE, JEAN RAYMOND
• Application Number:
  US09/081,128
• Time in Patent Office: 966 Days
• Field of Search: 707/10, 707/101, 707/3, 707/513, 707/2, 707/5, 709/203, 709/206, 709/219
• US Class Current: 707/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/922 Communications
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer program products provide for monitoring information or police reports in a police database, including newly entered reports, for matches to predefined profiles. The predefined profiles are established by police officers, and may include one or more request terms (i.e., request data), a frequency term and notification information for the officer who defined the profile. The frequency term indicates how often the police database is searched for matches to the profile. The notification information is utilized to send notification to the police officer or group of officers that defined the profile when a match occurs.

Claims

1. A law enforcement data analysis system for automatically monitoring police records for a crime profile, comprising;

a user interface module that receives user inputted query information defining a search query for searching for said crime profile;

a server module which receives said user inputted query information from said user interface module and transforms said user inputted query information into a database procedure, and wherein the user inputted query information comprises notification data defining a means of notification;

a database module which executes said procedure against a police record database, and generates a notification signal if a match to said search query occurs; and

a notification module that receives said notification signal, and generates a notification message to a user in response to said notification signal according to said means of notification.

2. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 1, wherein said user interface module comprises an web page form configured to receive said user inputted query information through an Internet browser program.

3. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 2, wherein said web page form comprises dynamic HTML.

4. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 1, wherein said user interface module receives user inputted query information that comprises request data and frequency term data.

5. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 1, wherein said notification data comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of an electronic mail address and a pager number.

6. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 4, wherein said frequency term indicates a frequency at which said procedure is executed by said database module.

7. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 4, wherein said request data defines at least one element of said event.

8. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 1, wherein said server module generates a statement based on said user inputted query information.

9. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 8, wherein said server module generates said procedure based upon said statement.

10. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 1, wherein said police record database is a data replica of a second police record database.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said user inputted query information includes notification information, and wherein said notification module generates a notification signal that includes said notification information.

12. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 1, wherein said user interface module receives user inputted query information that includes a frequency term for indicating the frequency at which said procedure is executed by said server module.

13. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 12, wherein said frequency term is one selected from the group consisting of each new entry, hourly, daily, and weekly.

14. The law enforcement data analysis system of claim 12, wherein said server module executes said procedure when said police record database is updated.

15. A computer program product for use with a data processing system for automatically monitoring police records for a crime profile, said computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer-readable code means embodied in said medium, said computer-readable code means comprising;

a user interface module that receives user inputted query information from said user interface module and transforms said user inputted query information into a database procedure and wherein the user inputted query information comprises notification data defining a means of notification;

a database module which executes said procedure against a police record database, and generates a notification signal if a match to the search query occurs; and

a notification module that receives said notification signal, and generates a notification message to a user in response to said notification signal according to said means of notification.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein said server module generates a database procedure based on said user inputted query information.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein said user interface module receives user inputted query information that includes a frequency term for indicating the frequency at which said procedure is executed by said server module.

18. A law enforcement data analysis method for automatically monitoring police records for a crime profile, comprising the steps of:

receiving user input query information from a user defining a search query for the crime profile, wherein the user input query information comprises notification data defining a means of notification;

transforming the user input query information into a database procedure;

executing the database procedure against a police record database; and

if a match to said search query occurs in said step of executing the database procedure, then generating a notification message to the user according to said means of notification.

19. The law enforcement data analysis method of claim 18, wherein said step of transforming the user inputted query information includes the step of generates a database procedure based on the user inputted query information.

20. The law enforcement data analysis method of claim 18, wherein said step of executing the database procedure is performed at a user defined frequency.

21. A law enforcement data analysis system for automatically monitoring police records for a crime profile, comprising;

a user interface module that receives user inputted query information defining a search query for searching for said crime profile;

a server module which receives said user inputted query information from said user interface module and transforms said user inputted query information into a database procedure, and wherein the user inputted query information comprises a frequency term;

a database module which executes said procedure against a police record database, and generates a notification signal if a match to said search query occurs, wherein the frequency at which said procedure is executed by said database module is defined by said frequency term; and

a notification module that receives said notification signal, and generates a notification message to a user in response to said notification signal.