Command center system and method
First Claim
1. A command center system that collects information about incidents using incident input forms as well as information about global headlines, travel alerts and command center on-call personnel and stores information in data structures that are accessed to generate a daily briefing page to employees about currently occurring events, recently resolved events, global news events and travel alerts that pose a threat to employees, comprising:
- incident input forms configured to receive incident data describing an incident that affects employee travel to a facility;
at least one incident first that is populated with incident data from the incident input forms;
at least one computer for providing a command center status page, wherein the command center status page comprises;
a monitoring section including a list of links to incident pages for a set of incidents, each incident page constructed in part from incident data in the at least one incident list;
a monitoring alerts document dynamically constructed based on data contained in an incident page about currently active incidents that continue to be monitored by command center personnel;
an incident content feed link for a content feed of incident data added to the at least one incident list;
a daily briefing link to a current daily briefing page that is constructed once per day from incident data in the at least one incident list such that incident data that are added after the current daily briefing page is constructed are not included in the current daily briefing page;
a daily briefing content feed link for a content feed of daily briefing pages; and
,said at least one computer further including a display for displaying a user interface to command center personnel, said user interface being configured to;
receive changes to the current daily briefing page for use in constructing an edited daily briefing page; and
receive an instruction to store the edited current daily briefing page; and
in response to the instruction to store the edited current daily briefing page, storing the edited current daily briefing page in memory.
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Abstract
A command center system includes forms to receive incident data describing an incident and at least one incident list that is populated with incident data from the input forms. The system also includes a status page that includes a list of links to incident pages, each incident page constructed from incident data in the at least one incident list. The status page also includes a daily briefing link to a daily briefing page that is constructed once per day from incident data in the at least one incident list such that incident data added after the current daily briefing page is constructed are not included in the daily briefing page. The status page also includes an incident content feed link for a content feed of incident data added to the at least one incident list and a daily briefing content feed link for a content feed of daily briefing pages.
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19 Claims
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1. A command center system that collects information about incidents using incident input forms as well as information about global headlines, travel alerts and command center on-call personnel and stores information in data structures that are accessed to generate a daily briefing page to employees about currently occurring events, recently resolved events, global news events and travel alerts that pose a threat to employees, comprising:
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incident input forms configured to receive incident data describing an incident that affects employee travel to a facility; at least one incident first that is populated with incident data from the incident input forms; at least one computer for providing a command center status page, wherein the command center status page comprises; a monitoring section including a list of links to incident pages for a set of incidents, each incident page constructed in part from incident data in the at least one incident list; a monitoring alerts document dynamically constructed based on data contained in an incident page about currently active incidents that continue to be monitored by command center personnel; an incident content feed link for a content feed of incident data added to the at least one incident list; a daily briefing link to a current daily briefing page that is constructed once per day from incident data in the at least one incident list such that incident data that are added after the current daily briefing page is constructed are not included in the current daily briefing page; a daily briefing content feed link for a content feed of daily briefing pages; and
,said at least one computer further including a display for displaying a user interface to command center personnel, said user interface being configured to; receive changes to the current daily briefing page for use in constructing an edited daily briefing page; and receive an instruction to store the edited current daily briefing page; and in response to the instruction to store the edited current daily briefing page, storing the edited current daily briefing page in memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for constructing a daily briefing page using information about incidents using incident input forms as well as information about global headlines, travel alerts and command center on-call personnel and stores information in data structures that are accessed to generate a daily briefing page to employees about currently occurring events, recently resolved events, global news events, travel alerts and response team activations, comprising:
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retrieving a daily briefing template in response to a user input; determining a current date and time; searching, by a processor, incident data lists stored in memory to retrieve information about currently active incidents that affect employee travel; searching, by a processor, the incident data lists to retrieve information about closed incidents;
searching, by a processor, global headline lists stored in memory for information about global headlines that are applicable to the current date and time;constructing, by a processor, a daily briefing page by inserting the information about currently active incidents, the information about closed incidents and the information about global headlines into the briefing template; providing the constructed daily briefing page to a user at a command center through a user interface; and providing the constructed daily briefing page such that a user may edit the constructed daily briefing page; and receiving changes to the constructed daily briefing page and altering the constructed daily briefing page to form an edited daily briefing page; receiving an instruction to store the edited daily briefing page; and in response to the instruction to store the edited daily briefing page, storing the edited daily briefing page in memory. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform steps comprising:
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receiving incident data through a form comprising at least one pull-down menu that is used to select a location where an incident occurred from a collection of preset locations; constructing a daily briefing through steps comprising; selecting incident data to include in the daily briefing based in part on a current date; selecting travel alerts to include in the daily briefing based in part on the current date; selecting headlines to include in the daily briefing based in part on the current date; providing the daily briefing to employees about currently occurring events, recently resolved events, global news events and travel alerts that pose a threat to employees; and receiving changes to the constructed daily briefing and altering the constructed daily briefing to form an edited daily briefing; receiving an instruction to store the edited daily briefing; and in response to the instruction to store the edited daily briefing, storing the edited daily briefing in memory. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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