DISASTER MANAGEMENT USING AN ENHANCED SYNDICATION PLATFORM
First Claim
1. A method for disaster planning comprising:
- subscribing to a plurality of disaster management feeds;
semantically enriching the content of at least one of the plurality of disaster management feeds according to one or more disaster related criteria; and
publishing at least one aggregated, filtered view of the plurality of disaster management feeds endorsed by a disaster planning agency.
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Abstract
The invention relates to hardware, software and electronic service components and systems to provide large-scale, reliable, and secure foundations for distributed databases and content management systems, combining unstructured and structured data, and allowing post-input reorganization to achieve a high degree of flexibility. This system may be combined with various syndication techniques to provide a platform for disaster preparation, response, and relief The invention described herein may allow disaster relief data to be stored in a syndication format, processed, and published through a plurality of disaster management data feeds. The syndicated content may be used by disaster relief participants in the preparation, response and relief efforts associated with a disaster.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for disaster planning comprising:
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subscribing to a plurality of disaster management feeds;
semantically enriching the content of at least one of the plurality of disaster management feeds according to one or more disaster related criteria; and
publishing at least one aggregated, filtered view of the plurality of disaster management feeds endorsed by a disaster planning agency. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. The method of claim 38, further comprising subscribing to the publicly available data feed from a client device including at least one of a cellular phone, a cordless phone, a telephone, a pager, a handheld computer, a smartphone, a wireless electronic mail device, a Treo, a Blackberry, a walkie-talkie, a CB radio and a VoIP device, a laptop computer, a palmtop computer, a computer, a tablet computer, a printer, a computer peripheral, a fax machine, a scanner, a copier, an all-in-one solution, a storage device, a network device, a network appliance, an internet appliance, a server, an MP3 player, an iPod, a personal digital assistant, a cellular phone, a mobile phone, a GSM phone, and a smart phone.
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12. A method for disaster response comprising:
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aggregating syndicated data feeds from a plurality of participants responding to a disaster;
determining a status of the disaster and one or more of the plurality of participants based upon one or more items in the syndicated data feeds;
developing a response plan including instructions for at least one of the plurality of participants; and
publishing a feed including the instructions. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A method for disaster relief comprising:
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subscribing to a first plurality of feeds containing requests for disaster relief resources;
subscribing to a second plurality of feeds identifying available disaster relief resources;
subscribing to a third plurality of feeds identifying financial resources available for disaster relief, processing the content of the first, second, and third plurality of feeds to generate an allocation of disaster relief resources and financial resources to requests for disaster relief resources; and
publishing the allocation to a data feed. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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