Collecting, analyzing, consolidating, delivering and utilizing data relating to a current event

• US 7,058,710 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2002
• Issued: 06/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: KOYO Musen Corporation
• Original Assignee: KOYO Musen Corporation
• Inventors: McCall, S. Eric, So, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Etienne, Ario
• Assistant Examiner(s): SALL, EL HADJI MALICK
• Application Number:
  US10/078,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20020188522A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,566 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 709/223, 709/224, 705/26, 705/51, 705/405, 370/230, 707/16, 707/10, 707/104.1, 710/17, 710/18
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

Arrangements for collecting, analyzing, consolidating and delivering consolidated and enhanced data from a plurality of sources relating to a current event, to a third party, and reserving the consolidated and enhanced data for internal use so as to create a commercial proactive emergency management and disaster response information system that can also be used for emergent commercial purposes. A data capture device associated with an individual or a location captures data related to a current event or affected site. Incoming data may include raw data, repackaged data, or value-added data from source inputs. Captured data is sent to a centralized command center or distributed command centers where it is analyzed, resolved, correlated and repackaged for use by other parties.

Claims

1. A method for analyzing data, comprising:

providing at least one information network having an information processing network for dynamically networking together a series of information processing units across at least one of a centralized database server or a distributed database server, and an information resolution network for dynamically networking together a series of information resolution units across at least one of the centralized database server or the distributed database server;

automatically analyzing incoming data, wherein the incoming data includes at least one of raw data, repackaged data, or value-added data from source inputs;

creating an incoming data entity information table for publishing event information tags;

creating a subscriber request entity information table for publishing subscriber request information tags;

resolving the incoming data entity information table and a subscriber data profile entity information table with system logic that matches at least one of raw data, the repackaged data, external systems data, or programmed data with a specific subscriber entity request for information that may relate to an event;

reporting results of a data resolution to the at least one of the centralized database server or the distributed database server, providing a composite picture of the event, conditions of an area surrounding the event, ancillary data that is related to the event, or any of at least one of the raw data, the repackaged data, the external systems data, or the programmed data requested by a subscriber entity during a course of the event; and

providing any of the requested data to the subscriber entity requesting the data and to at least one third party.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein data is created from at least one of a source input, external systems data, a publicly accessible network, public and private reference and research networks, commercial and organizational web sites, or any source of data. The data will be stored in an incoming data entity information table for publishing event information tags.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein appetites for information regarding the event come from the at least one third party, an information processing unit, or any other request for the raw data or the repackaged data, wherein each appetite is tagged and stored in a subscriber request entity table.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the information processing units analyzes each data element using mathematical formulas, numerical calculations, logic operations, and other artificial methods including fuzzy logic, artificial reasoning, and artificial intelligence, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, historical analysis, trend analysis, pattern recognition, or any analysis methodology.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the information processing units is a computing and analyzing mechanism that manipulates the raw data, the incoming data and archival data to render a cohesive, composite picture of an event as it unfolds, and/or calculates a related answer, and preserves a time slice of the event for later study and analysis.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the information processing units calculates what each data element may need to interpret the data element, including drawing on data from external data servers including archival and external information systems, GIS/GPS, geographic, governmental, economic, geological, and meteorological data, corporate web sites, public and private reference and research networks, commercial and organizational web sites, and any source of relevant data, including data pre-existing in the entity lookup table or latent data inputs, all compared to put the data element into a useful context.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one data capture device or a sensor connected to the at least one information network through virtual pipes, to at least one of a centralized command center, a distributed command center, over a public accessible network such as the Internet, or through a variety of commercial, municipal, public and private communications networks that are wired, POTS, or wireless, regardless of the physical deployment at each stage of the communication chain.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the subscriber entity that expressed an appetite for information is connected to the at least one information network through virtual pipes, to at least one of a centralized command center or a distributed command center, over a public accessible network such as the Internet, or through a variety of commercial, municipal, and private communications networks that are wired, POTS, or wireless, regardless of the physical deployment at each stage of the communication chain.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the information resolution network provides reasoning technology to resolve each encounter between a data input and all known appetites for that data in real time.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the information resolution network provides reasoning technology to resolve each encounter between requests for data and all known inputs that could serve to satisfy the requests in whole or in part in real time.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein all incoming data is analyzed and information tags are created in real time and stored in an incoming data entity information table of existing data tags that uniquely define a data element, a time and date stamp for the data element, and information on an entity that provided the data.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein all incoming requests for information are analyzed and information tags are created in real time and stored in a subscriber requests entity information table that uniquely defines a request, so as to store the request as a unique data element provided with a time and date stamp for the request, and information on an entity that made the request.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the information resolution network comprises a plurality of parallel resolution processing units to resolve each encounter with a data element, a request for that element, or resultant repackaged data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein a number of clustered, parallel resolution processing units can be scaled up or scaled down so as to provide burstable bandwidth, based upon a load, and are hot-swappable in real time, in case of a failure or an increase in network load.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the information resolution network comprises of a plurality of reasoning units that are at least one of a co-located logical reasoning device, a centralized logical reasoning device, or a distributed single logical reasoning device to work across the information resolution network to find the best matches between the raw data, the repackaged data, and subscriber requests.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the repackaged data is created when an event happens, when a request happens, during preprogrammed intervals or schedules, or dynamically by an assimilation and assessment of all the incoming data.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one information network utilizes a push technology to provide repackaged information deemed important to all subscribers and to the at least one third party.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein pushed data is at least one of a commercial announcement or a public service announcement.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one information network provides the repackaged data on demand to a subscriber and to the at least one third party.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one information network captures and utilizes data from centralized automatic observations or distributed automatic observations from sensors in a field on preprogrammed timing profiles, and on at least one of an event-driven profile, a request captured from a subscriber, or an active KIPU request, and wherein at least one of a dynamic subscriber request or an automatic request from the information processing units can update at least one of a sensor sampling schedule or an event-driven profile.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one information network receives data from at least one sensor according to at least one of a preordained interval, a schedule, a count, a duration, a request from a subscriber, or an active KIPU request.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one information network receives data as a result of an onset of a predefined event, a set of cascading events, or one or more data sources.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one information network automatically distributes sampled, periodic and event driven data to at least one of a centralized command and control center or a distributed command and control center, wherein the sampled, periodic and event data is stored in a plurality of database servers.