Integrated systems and methods providing situational awareness of operations in an organization
First Claim
1. A method of providing information to one or more members in a group of users, each user having a hand-held device which communicates as a client to a server in a network via a rf link, the hand-held devices each having a volatile storage medium for temporary data storage, a display for viewing information present in the device memory circuit, a device processor and a non-volatile storage medium for data storage for which access to read data from and write data to the device non-volatile storage medium is under the control of the device processor, the server having a processor and a non-volatile server storage medium for which access to read data from and write data to the non-volatile server storage medium is under the control of the server processor, the method comprising:
- creating data on a first of the hand-held devices with the data written to the volatile storage medium of the first device or to the non-volatile storage medium of the first device and displayed to the user after creation;
after writing the data to the volatile storage medium of the first device or the non-volatile storage medium of the first device, uploading the data to the server and causing the server processor to write the data to the non-volatile server storage medium; and
after uploading the data to the server, limiting further access to place the data in the volatile storage medium of the first device for viewing on the device display by requiring, each time a user in possession of the first device seeks to present the data on the display of the first device for viewing, that the data only be accessed from the non-volatile storage medium under the control of the server processor and sent to the volatile storage medium of the first device without writing of the data into any non-volatile storage medium directly accessible by the device processor wherein the data received by the first device from the server can be viewed on the device display but cannot be stored in any non-volatile storage medium in the first device.
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Abstract
A system which comprises a series of native applications, suited to run on mobile devices, and a series of web-based applications for which functionality and processing are optimized. The native applications and the web-based applications are coordinated to optimize processes of acquiring, storing and disseminating data for speed, integrity and security.
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1. A method of providing information to one or more members in a group of users, each user having a hand-held device which communicates as a client to a server in a network via a rf link, the hand-held devices each having a volatile storage medium for temporary data storage, a display for viewing information present in the device memory circuit, a device processor and a non-volatile storage medium for data storage for which access to read data from and write data to the device non-volatile storage medium is under the control of the device processor, the server having a processor and a non-volatile server storage medium for which access to read data from and write data to the non-volatile server storage medium is under the control of the server processor, the method comprising:
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creating data on a first of the hand-held devices with the data written to the volatile storage medium of the first device or to the non-volatile storage medium of the first device and displayed to the user after creation; after writing the data to the volatile storage medium of the first device or the non-volatile storage medium of the first device, uploading the data to the server and causing the server processor to write the data to the non-volatile server storage medium; and after uploading the data to the server, limiting further access to place the data in the volatile storage medium of the first device for viewing on the device display by requiring, each time a user in possession of the first device seeks to present the data on the display of the first device for viewing, that the data only be accessed from the non-volatile storage medium under the control of the server processor and sent to the volatile storage medium of the first device without writing of the data into any non-volatile storage medium directly accessible by the device processor wherein the data received by the first device from the server can be viewed on the device display but cannot be stored in any non-volatile storage medium in the first device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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