System, method and program product for maintaining deployed response team members synchronized
First Claim
1. An incident response system comprising:
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a plurality of local devices connected to said network, each local device being associated with a locale department;
one or more computers connected to said network, said one or more computers including an operations center planning and administering day-to-day operations and emergency operations for said locale; and
a plurality of mobile devices each associated with an agent of a locale department, each mobile device being assigned a role for responding to incidents by said operations center, said each mobile device including a likelihood table, an assigned region of interest, and a role model including attributes describing said assigned role, and connecting to said network individually when deployed, andwhenever a direct network connection is unavailable to one or more deployed mobile devices, said deployed mobile devices connect wirelessly in an ad hoc peer-to-peer network organized hierarchically according to role, said one or more connecting to said network through peers and sharing information in a combined push/pull communication, all said deployed mobile devices returning to connecting to said network individually whenever a direct network connection becomes available to all.
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Abstract
An incident response system, method of responding to exigent incidents and a computer program product therefor. Local devices associated with a locale department are connected to network. An operations center on one or more networked computers, e.g., cloud computers, plans and administer locale day-to-day operations. The operations center may also plan and administer emergency operations for the locale. Locale departments have response agents associated mobile devices. The operations center assigns each mobile device with a role for responding to incidents and provides each with a likelihood table. When deployed each mobile device connects to the network individually or through other mobile devices, e.g., in an ad hoc, peer-to-peer network.
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23 Claims
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1. An incident response system comprising:
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a network; a plurality of local devices connected to said network, each local device being associated with a locale department; one or more computers connected to said network, said one or more computers including an operations center planning and administering day-to-day operations and emergency operations for said locale; and a plurality of mobile devices each associated with an agent of a locale department, each mobile device being assigned a role for responding to incidents by said operations center, said each mobile device including a likelihood table, an assigned region of interest, and a role model including attributes describing said assigned role, and connecting to said network individually when deployed, and whenever a direct network connection is unavailable to one or more deployed mobile devices, said deployed mobile devices connect wirelessly in an ad hoc peer-to-peer network organized hierarchically according to role, said one or more connecting to said network through peers and sharing information in a combined push/pull communication, all said deployed mobile devices returning to connecting to said network individually whenever a direct network connection becomes available to all. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An incident response system comprising:
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a network; a plurality of local devices connected to said network, each local device being associated with a locale department; one or more computers connected to said network, said one or more computers including an operations center includes and an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said operations center planning and administering day-to-day operations for said locale, said EOC planning and administering emergency operations during each incident; and a plurality of mobile devices each associated with an agent of a locale department, said EOC assigning each mobile device with a role for responding to incidents, each mobile device connecting to said network individually when deployed for an incident, wherein said EOC provides said each mobile device with a likelihood table, a region of interest and a role model including attributes describing said assigned role, and during said incident whenever a direct network connection is unavailable to one or more deployed mobile devices, said deployed mobile devices connect in an ad hoc peer-to-peer network organized hierarchically according to role, said peers sharing information in a combined push/pull communication, said one or more connecting to said network through peers, all said deployed mobile devices returning to connecting to said network individually whenever a direct network connection becomes available to all. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer program product for responding to incidents, said computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable program code stored thereon, said computer readable program code comprising:
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computer readable program code for associating each of a plurality of networked local devices with a locale department; computer readable program code for planning and administering an incident operations center, assigning an incident operations role for responding to incidents to each of a plurality of mobile devices, each mobile device being associated with an agent of one said locale department, assigning including providing device a likelihood table, a region of interest, a role model including attributes describing said assigned incident operations role, and; computer readable program code for connecting each of said plurality of mobile devices to a network individually to said incident operations center; and computer readable program code for connecting deployed mobile devices wirelessly in an ad hoc peer-to-peer network self-organized hierarchically according to emergency operations role whenever a direct network connection is unavailable to any of said deployed mobile devices, one or more peers connecting to said incident operations center through other peers and sharing information in a combined push/pull communication, all said deployed mobile devices returning to connecting to said network individually whenever a direct network connection becomes available to all. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer program product for responding to incidents in a shared resource environment, said computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable program code stored thereon, said computer readable program code comprising:
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computer readable program code for associating each of a plurality of networked local devices with a locale department; computer readable program code for an operations center planning and administering day-to-day operations for the locale; computer readable program code for an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) planning for emergency operations in cooperation with said operations center and administering emergency operations during each incident, for assigning a role for responding to incidents to each of a plurality of mobile devices, and for providing said each mobile device with an assigned region of interest, a likelihood table and a role model including attributes describing said assigned role, each mobile device being associated with an agent of one said locale department; and computer readable program code for connecting each of said plurality of mobile devices to said EOC through a network individually; and computer readable program code for connecting deployed mobile devices in an ad hoc peer-to-peer network self-organized hierarchically according to emergency operations role whenever a direct network connection becomes unavailable any of said deployed mobile devices, peers without a direct connection available connecting to said EOC through other peers and sharing information in a combined push/pull communication, all said deployed mobile devices returning to connecting to said network individually whenever a direct network connection becomes available to all. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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