DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM FOR PREPARATION, MANAGEMENT AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN

• US 20070103288A1
• Filed: 10/24/2006
• Published: 05/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ckuria Vision Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Ckuria Vision Incorporated
• Inventors: Herard, Claire
• Application Number:
  US11/552,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20070103288A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

The present invention relates to a distributed collaborative system for preparation and/or maintenance of an emergency response plan. An emergency response plan is a data file containing a plurality of contingencies and respectively, response plans in connection to these contingencies. Different parties, such as property managers, property tenants, emergency respondents and insurance companies, collaborate together electronically via a server to share information and comments on this information. Information on the property is first being provided by some parties (mainly the property manager and tenant) and then, emergency response plans referenced to this information are being prepared and shared on the server by emergency respondents. Following, if necessary, insurance companies, by virtue of their expertise in risk management, open comment threads on this shared information and response plans and, generally, expect responses to their comments or a modification to be carried out by the appropriate party. After closure of comment threads and as a result of this distributive collaboration between parties, emergency response plans are prepared to overcome emergency situations in an efficient and fast way.

Claims

1. A Method of collaboration among various parties to build an emergency response plan for a property, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server, structural information provided by manager of said property;

using said structural information by tenant of said property to provide to said server occupant information referenced with respect to said structured information; and

using said structural information and said occupant information by emergency respondents to provide to said server emergency response plan data referenced with respect to at least one of said structural information and said occupant information.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of receiving an emergency response plan provided by said manager of said property with respect to expertise of said manager of said property and a step of approving or rejecting, by said emergency respondents, said emergency response plan provided by said manager of said property.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of receiving an emergency response plan provided by said tenant of said property with respect to expertise of said tenant of said property and a step of approving or rejecting, by said emergency respondents, said emergency response plan provided by said tenant of said property.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of adding on the server comments referenced with respect to at least one of said structural information, said occupant information and said emergency response plan data and sharing these comments among various parties who have access to the server.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said comments added on the server are provided by an insurance company.