Incident data collection for public protection agencies

• US 9,843,611 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2015
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Brewer, Derek R., Langford, Kerry M., Wilhelm, Robert D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Uzma
• Application Number:
  US14/826,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20150381942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/302 gathering intelligence information for situation awareness or reconnaissance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

An approach is provided in which a public protection system sends a data collection request to user devices located within a geographical proximity of an incident in progress that instructs the user devices to capture real-time data corresponding to the incident in progress. The public protection system receives the real-time data from the user devices and determines that a set of the real-time data includes evidence data corresponding to the incident in progress.

Claims

1. A method implemented by an information handling system that includes a memory and a processor, the method comprising:

sending a data collection request from the information handling system to one or more user devices located within a geographical proximity of an incident in progress, wherein the data collection request is sent prior to receiving information pertaining to the incident in progress from at least one of the one or more user devices, and wherein each of the one or more user devices is instructed to capture real-time data corresponding to the incident in progress;

receiving, at the information handling system, the real-time data captured by the one or more user devices that includes evidence data corresponding to the incident in progress;

sending a tracking request, based on analyzing the evidence data, from the information handling system to one or more different user devices that are not part of the one or more user devices, wherein the tracking request corresponds to a different location than a location of the incident in progress;

receiving, at the information handling system, subsequent real-time data from at least one of the one or more different user devices; and

providing, by the information handling system, the subsequent real-time data to one or more public service users.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the real-time data is selected from the group consisting of still image data, video data, and audio data.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a first one of the one more devices that provided the evidence data;

sending a request to the first device to provide user contact information of a user of the first device;

receiving the user contact information from the first device; and

linking the user contact information to the evidence data.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

sending a reward notification to the first device in response to the first device providing the evidence data.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the tracking request is a request to provide a live video stream.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing unsolved incident data to one or more participating user devices, wherein the unsolved incident data includes information corresponding to one or more unsolved incidents; and

receiving, from a first one of the one or more participating user devices, post-incident data matched to the unsolved incident data, wherein the post-incident data was captured subsequent to a corresponding one of the one or more unsolved incidents.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein each of the one or more participating devices provided a user agreement to receive the unsolved incident data.