Systems and methods for assets, personnel, and travel information and risk management

• US 8,775,195 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2011
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: WorldAware, Inc.
• Original Assignee: iJET International, Inc
• Inventors: Stiles, Paul W., McIndoe, Darrell Bruce, Meyer, Mark Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P
• Application Number:
  US13/215,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20120029970A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,050 Days
• Field of Search: 705 11-912
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

A system(s) and method(s) for providing asset, personnel, and travel information accumulation, analysis, and reporting for improved risk assessment and management are disclosed. In various embodiments, risk assessments(s) may be provided and may include receiving intelligence from at least one intelligence source, receiving information about one or more asset(s), and generating a risk assessment report. Various embodiments may include receiving intelligence from at least one intelligence source, receiving asset information, and generating a risk assessment report based on the intelligence and a personnel or employee profile. Further, various embodiments methods and systems may provide travel information to a consumer, by for example, acquiring information from at least one information source, characterizing the acquired information by its pertinence to travel, transforming the characterized travel information into a useable format, applying rules to this transformed travel information in connection with the consumer-specific travel profile, and delivering a report to the consumer.

Claims

1. An employee or personnel risk management system implemented, at least in part, in a computer system, comprising:

at least one intelligence source selected form a plurality of intelligence sources which are being repeatedly monitored at various intervals and updated from its initiation indefinitely for many years until the selected at least one intelligence source is determined to no longer be useful and is de-selected;

at least one asset information source, wherein the asset information includes employee or personnel profile information; and

a risk management module including a computerized analysis engine system coupled to the at least one intelligence source including risk information and the at least one asset information source including asset information so as to automatically identify one or more risk type(s) and/or particular potential risk(s) incident(s) that occur anywhere in the world, and the analysis engine configured to generate and provide a risk assessment report using the employee or personnel profile information so as to enable an employee or personnel to take evasive action in response to the risk and reduce or eliminate the risk to the employee or personnel in their particular location or an anticipated future location of the employee or personnel anywhere in the world.

2. The employee or personnel risk management system of claim 1, further comprising a risk mitigation toolbox configured to identify related intelligence maintained using the at least one intelligence source and related information maintained using the at least one asset information source.

3. The employee or personnel risk management system of claim 2, wherein the information includes geographic location information includes a set of coordinates for a geographic information system associated with an assigned location or a present location of an expatriate, and the employee or personnel profile information includes one or more passport countries, a primary e-mail contact address, at least one emergency contact, and an employee or personnel physical description.

4. The employee or personnel risk management system of claim 3, wherein the employee or personnel profile further includes the employee'"'"'s or personnel'"'"'s personal vehicle information, a head photograph, a handwriting sample, and a life verification question and answer.

5. The employee or personnel risk management system of claim 1, further comprising

a computer implemented content identification means for identifying and adding and deleting the at least one intelligence source from a list using a subject matter expert, a domain expert, or an automated process.

6. A method for information retrieval and analysis, implemented, at least in part, in a computer system, and structured for use in a system for providing asset risk related information to a consumer having a consumer-specific profile so as to enable a system users to assist in preventing and/or solving asset risk problems, comprising:

repeated and unending identification of one or more potential information source(s) including an initial and ongoing identification of the one or more potential information sources from which information is available that may be transformed into information pertinent to asset risk related activities for continuously updating an information source list by confirming, adding, and deleting information sources from the information source list, using a collection subsystem so as to obtain information from the at least one information source(s);

acquiring information related to asset risk from at least one previously identified information sources in the information source list and filtering obtained information using an analysis subsystem so as to identify characteristics of said obtained information that will impact an asset or the consumer; and

providing asset related information to one or more particular system user(s) having a consumer-specific profile with a distribution-subsystem operating in, at least in part, a computer system having executable code, by directing said filtered data to at least one portion of said system for providing asset risk related information, said distribution subsystem having a component for classifying said filtered data as supplemental content or as an alert.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of:

applying queries to obtain said information, wherein the collection subsystem includes a means for applying queries to obtain said information, and the information retrieval and analysis system solves and prevents asset problems, and wherein the analysis subsystem includes a filter pipe and an index pipe.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said one or more potential information sources is manually identified by subject matter experts or by domain experts.

9. The method of claim 6, further including the step of:

storing data including the obtained information, results from the analysis subsystem, and filtered data in a data store, wherein the collection subsystem includes a means for identifying one or more potential information sources that are manually identified by subject matter experts.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more information source(s) are identified by (1) manually identified by subject matter experts or domain experts and/or (2) automatically identified by the content robot engine with an automated process.

11. A risk management system for providing pertinent information to one or more particular user(s) for reducing risk(s) to an asset and/or personnel anywhere in the world at anytime, and implemented, at least in part, in a computer system, comprising:

a computer system having subsystems, executable code segment(s) and layer(s);

a collection subsystem for content identification that provides an initial and continuous ongoing identification of one or more potential information sources from which information is available that may be transformed into information pertinent to asset related activities for continuously updating an information source list by confirming, adding, and deleting information source(s) from the information source list, and using the collection subsystem so as to obtain information from at least one data source(s);

an analysis subsystem that acquires information related to asset and/or personnel risk from at least one previously identified information sources in the information source list and filtering obtained information using the analysis subsystem so as to identify characteristics of said obtained information that will impact an asset, personnel, or a consumer; and

a distribution-subsystem operating coupled to the analysis subsystem and providing travel-related information to one or more particular user(s) having a consumer-specific profile, by directing said filtered data to at least one portion of said system for providing asset and/or personnel risk related information, said distribution subsystem having a component for classifying said filtered data.

12. The system of claim 11, further including:

a data store for storing data including the obtained information; and

wherein the collection subsystem includes a content acquisition segment with a means for identifying one or more potential information sources that are manually identified by subject matter experts or domain experts, and/or automatically identified by a content robot engine.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the content acquisition segment includes a content robot engine that automatically identifies at least some of the one or more potential information sources and includes them in a content opportunities list.

14. A risk management system, implemented, at least in part, in a computer system, comprising:

a risk information source that gathers risk information related to asset and/or personnel related risk;

an asset and/or personnel information source that gathers asset information including asset and/or personnel location and movement information; and

an analysis system analyzing a plurality of risk types for a plurality of countries or regions, wherein the risk management system correlates one or more risk(s) related information, with one or more asset(s) and/or personnel information including asset and/or personnel location and movement information, and generates an asset or personnel specific risk assessment report, wherein none of the plurality of risk types are related to weather.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the system accumulates information or intelligence regarding various activities or events that occur anywhere throughout the world and are a potential risk to the one or more asset(s) and/or personnel.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the plurality of risk types include a first risk type related to weather and a second risk type not related to weather, and wherein the information or intelligence includes health, transportation, weather/environmental, safety/security or communication and technology information.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the information includes personnel who are people that are employed by or work for the organization and are on travel or items in transit that are useful for the operation of the organization.

18. A risk management system, implemented, at least in part, in a computer system, comprising:

a risk information source that gathers risk information;

an asset information source that gathers asset information including asset location and movement information; and

an analysis system analyzing a plurality of risk types for a plurality of countries or regions, wherein the risk management system correlates one or more risk(s) related information, with one or more asset(s) information including asset location and movement information, and generates an asset specific risk assessment report, wherein none of the plurality of risk types are related to weather.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the system accumulates information or intelligence regarding various activities or events that occur anywhere throughout the world and are a potential risk to the one or more assets.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the plurality of risk types include a first risk type related to weather and a second risk type not related to weather, and wherein the information or intelligence includes health, transportation, weather/environmental, safety/security or communication and technology information.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the information includes people who do work for the organization and are on travel or items in transit that are useful for the operation of the organization.

22. An employee or personnel risk management system implemented, at least in part, in a computer system, comprising:

at least one intelligence source selected form a plurality of intelligence sources which are being repeatedly monitored;

at least one asset information source, wherein the asset information includes employee or personnel profile information; and

a risk management module including an analysis engine coupled to the at least one intelligence source and the at least one asset information source so as to identify one or more risks, the analysis engine configured to provide a risk assessment report using the employee or personnel profile information so as to enable an employee or personnel to take evasive action in response to the risk so as to reduce or eliminate a risk to the employee or personnel.

23. The employee or personnel risk management system of claim 22, further comprising a risk mitigation toolbox configured to identify related intelligence maintained using the at least one intelligence source and related information maintained using the at least one asset information source.

24. The employee or personnel risk management system of claim 23, wherein the information includes geographic location information includes a set of coordinates for a geographic information system associated with an assigned location or a present location of an expatriate, and the employee or personnel profile information includes one or more passport countries, a primary e-mail contact address, at least one emergency contact, and an employee or personnel physical description.

25. The employee or personnel risk management system of claim 24, wherein the employee or personnel profile further includes the employee'"'"'s or personnel'"'"'s personal vehicle information, a head photograph, a handwriting sample, and a life verification question and answer.

26. An information retrieval and analysis system implemented, at least in part, in a computer system, and structured for providing asset or personnel risk related information, comprising:

a collection system obtaining information from a plurality of data source(s) for solving various risk related problems, the information including data related to world events, company assets, and company personnel;

an analysis system filtering the obtained information to identify characteristics of the obtained information that will impact asset(s), personnel, and/or the system'"'"'s product or services consumer; and

a distribution system directing said filtered data to at least one portion of the system for providing asset or personnel risk related information, said distribution system having a component for classifying said filtered data as useful for asset and/or personnel risk management, and for distribution to a particular person or entity.