Health, safety and security analysis at a client location

• US 7,606,783 B1
• Filed: 05/10/2006
• Issued: 10/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert M. Carter
• Original Assignee: Robert M. Carter
• Inventors: Carter, Robert M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vincent; David R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bharadwaj; Kalpana
• Application Number:
  US11/382,702
• Time in Patent Office: 1,259 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 706/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

Methods and systems for gathering lifestyle-based Health, Safety and Security (HSS) risks and conducting associated analyses by collecting HSS information related to potential health risks, safety hazards, and security concerns existing at a client location. Product and service information relating to one or more products or services for mitigating or eliminating said potential health risks, safety hazards, or security concerns are automatically identified using the gathered HSS information, where the one or more products or services mitigate or eliminate the potential health risks, safety hazards or security concerns. Additionally, an order is automatically assembled for purchasing the one or more products or services based upon the potential health risks, safety hazards or security concerns.

Claims

1. A computer program product for use with a data processing system for gathering and conducting lifestyle-based analyses, said computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer-readable code means embodied in said medium, said computer-readable code means comprising:

computer readable program code means for receiving safety information representative of one or more potential safety hazards existing at a client location input into said computer program product;

computer readable program code means for evaluating said safety information to identify the potential safety hazards existing at the client location, said safety information being generated as a result of an analysis of said client location; and

computer readable program code means for providing an electronic recommendation, based upon the identified potential safety hazards, of one or more products or services to mitigate or eliminate the identified potential safety hazards, said recommendation being generated through the use of stored data that links the safety hazards to the one or more products or services for mitigating or eliminating the identified potential safety hazards.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said computer usable medium further comprises computer-readable code means for receiving security information related to potential security hazards existing at the client location input into said computer program product, said security information being generated as a result of an analysis of said client location.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, wherein said computer usable medium further comprises computer-readable code means for evaluating said security information to identify the potential security hazards existing at the client location.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein said computer usable medium further comprises computer-readable code means for recommending, based upon said security hazards, one or more products or services to mitigate or eliminate said security hazards existing at the client location.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said computer usable medium further comprises computer-readable code means for receiving health information related to potential health hazards at the client location input into said computer program product, said health information being generated as a result of analysis of said client location.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein said computer usable medium further comprises computer-readable code means for evaluating said health information to identify the potential health hazards at the client location.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein said computer usable medium further comprises computer-readable code means for recommending, based upon said health hazards, one or more products or services to mitigate or eliminate said potential health hazards existing at the client location.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said computer usable medium is accessible via a Wide Area Network (WAN).

9. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said computer program product comprises a software program.

10. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said computer program product resides in a device selected from devices consisting of a laptop computer, a server, a personal computer, a personal digital assistant, a hand held computer, and a portable computer.

11. A method for conducting lifestyle-based analyses, comprising:

collecting safety information related to potential safety hazards existing at a client location, the safety information being generated as a result of an analysis of the client location;

storing product and service information, wherein said product and service information relates to one or more products or services for mitigating said potential safety hazards;

storing data linking the potential safety hazards to the products and services for mitigating the potential safety hazards; and

using the stored data to transform the stored safety information and the product and service information into an electronic recommendation of one or more products or services for mitigating or eliminating said potential safety hazards existing at the client location.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of collecting security information related to potential security hazards existing at the client location, the security information being generated as a result of an analysis of the client location.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of storing further includes the step of storing product and service information relating to one or more products or services for mitigating said potential security hazards, and wherein the transforming operation further comprises transforming said security information into an electronic recommendation of one or more products or services for mitigating said potential security hazards.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of collecting health information related to potential health hazards existing at the client location, the health information being generated as a result of an analysis of the client location.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of storing further includes the step of storing product and service information relating to one or more products or services for mitigating said potential health hazards, and wherein the transforming operation further comprises transforming said health information into an electronic recommendation of one or more products or services for mitigating said potential health hazards existing at the client location.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising the step of monitoring a client profile and using said profile to automatically identify said one or more products or services for mitigating said potential health hazards.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of monitoring a client profile and using said profile to automatically identify said one or more products or services for mitigating said potential safety hazards.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of monitoring a client profile and using said profile to automatically identify said one or more products or services for mitigating said potential security hazards.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising generating a score comparing the preparedness of a client in relation to a standard determined using at least one reference selected from references consisting of public accident statistics, disaster statistics, injury statistics, health statistics and/or other statistics or information generated by a company.

20. A system for gathering and conducting lifestyle-based analyses, comprising:

at least one input device, said at least one input device operable to receive data related to health, safety and/or security hazards existing at a client location, the data related to health, safety and/or security hazards existing at a client location being generated as a result of an analysis of the client location;

at least one storage medium, in communication with said at least one input device, said at least one storage medium configurable to store said data related to client specific health, safety and/or security hazards and to store data linking the health, safety, and/or security hazards to product and/or service recommendations to mitigate or eliminate the health, safety, and/or security hazards; and

at least one program, said at least one program operable to use the stored data linking the hazards to product and/or service recommendations to transform said data related to specific health, safety and/or security hazards existing at the client location into one or more electronic product and/or service recommendations to mitigate or eliminate said client specific health, safety and/or security hazards existing at the client location.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein said at least one input device is in remote communication with said at least one storage medium.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein said at least one input device and said at least one storage medium are in communication via the Internet.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein said at least one program is in remote communication with said at least one input device.

24. The system of claim 20, further comprising an output device, said output device operable to display said product and/or service recommendations to mitigate or eliminate said health, safety and/or security hazards.

25. The system of claim 20, wherein said at least one program is operable to generate electronic quotes and/or estimates of services and/or products corresponding to the product and/or service recommendations to mitigate or eliminate said health, safety and/or security hazards.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein said quote and/or estimates are displayed via an output device.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein said at least one program is operable to track the expiration dates of said products corresponding to the product recommendations to mitigate or eliminate said health, safety and/or security hazards.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein said at least one program is operable to identify when said expiration dates have expired.

29. The system of claim 20, wherein said at least one program is further operable to compare said product and/or service recommendations.

30. A computer-implemented method for gathering lifestyle-based health, safety and security risks and conducting associated analyses, comprising:

collecting, at a client location or over the Internet, health, safety, and security information related to potential health risks, safety hazards, and security concerns existing at a client location;

gathering product, service, and behavioral modification, wherein said product, service, and suggested behavioral modification information relates to one or more products or services for mitigating or eliminating said potential health risks, safety hazards, or security concerns;

storing data pre-linking the potential health risks, safety hazards, and security concerns to the products or services for mitigating or eliminating said potential health risks, safety hazards, or security concerns;

identifying, using said stored data, said one or more products, services, and suggested behavioral modifications for mitigating or eliminating said potential health risks, safety hazards or security concerns; and

assembling an electronic order for purchasing said one or more products or services based upon said potential health risks, safety hazards or security concerns.