Incident Data Collection for Public Protection Agencies

• US 20150381942A1
• Filed: 08/14/2015
• Published: 12/31/2015
• 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.
• Granted Patent: US 9,843,611 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 to one or more user devices located within a geographical proximity of an incident in progress, wherein each of the identified user devices is instructed to capture real-time data corresponding to the incident in progress;

receiving the real-time data captured by the one or more user devices; and

determining that a set of the real-time data includes evidence data corresponding to the incident in progress.

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 tracking request to the first device, wherein the tracking request includes a request for the user to perform one or more actions with the first device; and

receiving subsequent real-time data from the first device in response to the user performing the one or more requested actions.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the tracking request is a request to provide a live video stream.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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