Method and System for Situation Tracking and Notification
Alerts ( 13 ) are generated at mobile entity devices ( 12 ) and servers ( 16 ). The alerts are examined at the servers and handled by the server and/or forwarded to a clearing house ( 22 ). At the clearing house, emergency events ( 40 ) are created in response to the alerts by an event module ( 36 ). A notify module ( 38 ) compares events to an information need ( 304 ) associated with a subscriber profile ( 46 ) to determine whether a subscriber associated with the subscriber profile should be notified about events. The notify module also handles interactive search requests from a client ( 20 ) for the events.
1 . A method for situation tracking comprising:
providing at least one public safety event at a clearing house;
providing a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile;
determining at least one notification location between a first location and a second location;
selecting at least one selected subscriber from the subscribers based on the notification location and the subscriber profile; and
generating a respective notification to each of the selected subscribers.
2 . The method for situation tracking according to claim 1 , wherein each public safety event has respective associated location information comprising at least one of a zip code, a global positioning system based location, a city, a state, a street and a street intersection.
3 . The method for situation tracking according to claim 1 , wherein each public safety event has respective associated location information and wherein determining the notification location comprises:
determining the first location based on the location information;
determining the second location based on the location information; and
wherein the notification location is geographically located between the first and second locations.
4 . The method for situation tracking according to claim 3 , wherein selecting the selected subscriber further comprises selecting the selected subscriber based on the location information.
5 . The method for situation tracking according to claim 1 , wherein providing the public safety event comprises:
receiving an alert at the clearing house; and
generating the public safety event based on the alert.
6 . A method for situation tracking comprising:
providing at least one public safety event at a clearing house;
receiving information related to at least a selected one of the public safety events; and
displaying the selected one of the public safety events to a user.
7 . The method for situation tracking according to claim 6 and further comprising:
generating a new public safety event based on the selected one of the public safety events and the information;
associating the new public event and the selected one of the public safety events in the clearing house; and
generating a notification to a contact associated with the selected one of the public safety events.
8 . The method for situation tracking according to claim 6 and further comprising:
modifying the selected one of the public safety events based on the information; and
generating a notification to a contact associated with the selected one of the public safety events.
9 . The method for situation tracking according to claim 6 and further comprising selecting the selected one of the public safety events based on a ranking of the selected ones of the public safety events based on at least one of the location information and a detail element, the detail element having at least one of an image, a description, a suspect, an identifier, a category, an offense type, a case type, a date, a time, an expiration date, an access level, a contact, a map and location information.
10 . A method for information management comprising:
providing at least one public safety event at a clearing house;
providing a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile, each subscriber profile having at least one geographic area of interest to the subscriber and at least one type:
determining a first plurality of subscribers having profiles having related geographic areas of interest;
determining a second plurality of subscribers having profiles having related types; and
generating a notification including at least one of the first and second pluralities.
11 . The method for information management according to claim 10 and further comprising:
determining a relationship between the first and second pluralities; and
generating a further notification including ones of the first and second pluralities having the relationship.
12 . The method for information management according to claim 11 and further comprising communicating the notification and the further notification a public safety agency subscriber.
13 . A system for situation tracking comprising:
a computer readable storage medium;
an application stored in the computer readable storage medium and operable to:
provide at least one public safety event at a clearing house;
provide a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile;
determine at least one notification location between a first location and a second location;
select at least one selected subscriber from the subscribers based on the notification location and the subscriber profile; and
generate a respective notification to each of the selected subscribers.
14 . A system for situation tracking comprising:
a computer readable storage medium;
an application stored in the computer readable storage medium and operable to:
provide at least one public safety event at a clearing house;
receive information related to at least a selected one of the public safety events; and
display the selected one of the public safety events to a user.
15 . A system for information management comprising:
a computer readable storage medium;
an application stored in the computer readable storage medium and operable to:
provide at least one public safety event at a clearing house;
provide a plurality of subscribers, each subscriber having a respective associated subscriber profile, each subscriber profile having at least one geographic area of interest to the subscriber and at least one type:
determine a first plurality of subscribers having profiles having related geographic areas of interest;
determine a second plurality of subscribers having profiles having related types; and
generate a notification including at least one of the first and second pluralities.