System and method for notifying recent visitors to a location
View Patent ↗This disclosure relates to a system and method for mass notifying recent visitors to a location. In one embodiment, the mass notification method can comprise collecting at a registration point, contact information from one or more visitors to a facility. The method can further comprise storing the contact information and a check-in time in a profile in a mass notification server memory. The method can further comprise sending a notification message in response to an emergency and as a part of a mass notification, to the contact information within each of the profiles containing a check-in time that is earlier than a mass notification time by not more than a predetermined period of time.
1. A mass notification method comprising
collecting at a registration point, contact information from one or more visitors to a facility;
storing said contact information and a check-in time in a profile in a mass notification server memory;
sending a notification message in response to an emergency and as a part of a mass notification, to said contact information within each of said profiles comprising said check-in time that is earlier than the notification message time by not more than a predetermined period of time.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said contact information comprises a phone number.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said contact information comprises an email.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said predetermined period of time is 48 hours or less.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said emergency is a terroristic attack.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein said emergency is a warning of a threatened terroristic attack.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein said emergency is detection of gunfire.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein said facility is a military installation.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein said one or more visitors comprises military personnel and civilians.
10. A mass notification method comprising
collecting at a registration point, contact information from one or more visitors to a location;
issuing each of said one or more visitors a pass;
storing said contact information and a time period in profiles in a mass notification server memory, each of said profiles associated with one of said visitors;
sending a notification message in response to an emergency and as a part of a mass notification, to said contact information within each of said profiles comprising said time period that encompasses a mass notification time, further wherein said time period is a period of validity associated with said pass.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein said contact information comprises a phone number.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein said contact information comprises an email.
13. A computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, wherein the computer readable program code is adapted to be executed to implement the method of claim 1 .