Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-05
2004-01-13
Rones, Charles (Department: 2175)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000, C709S241000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06678684
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to methods for warning of disasters and such, and more particularly to an early warning method with prediction of outcomes and consequences of a disaster.
2. Description of Related Art
In recent years, in the wake of a series of corporate scandals, the eyes of the world have keenly fastened on the business community. In addition to the issue of corporate ethics, controversy over corporate governance and the nature of business' public-spiritedness has been raised. It can be said that the companies are now expected, even required, to have resolve and a firm attitude as a social unit in this era. The basic idea is the realization of business open to society, that is, the pursuit of “fairness” and “openness” (disclosure, transparency). In other words, business performance should provide a new value to the society by fair means and contribute to the establishment of an affluent society as well as the establishment of a mechanism for self-purification in order to render a healthful influence on the society. Regarding the latter especially, the positive attitude can be seen from the fact that 80% of large companies in western countries have established what may be called a corporate security section, with a full-time director holding a position of Risk Control Manager, or the equivalent.
Large companies are seriously recasting the role of corporate security for assuming tasks beyond those of the conventional legal affairs section. Additionally institution of a new position of Crisis Control Manager has been carried out by many companies. Especially multinational enterprises doing business through subsidiaries or related companies worldwide, therefore, must take measures of for corporate security in order to structure and maintain a good relationship with society, and more than anything else, to protect human life, property and corporate image. The present invention is a worldwide early warning system developed to take the earliest appropriate measures when crises occur by paying considerable attention to what is happening in society.
Both natural and man-made disasters seem to be happening at an alarming rate and with the growth in worldwide population, response time is much too slow using current measures. The use of high speed computers to search available database information quickly makes the present invention practical. Such search information along with information about the infrastructure of society, historical comparisons and statistical methods can enable significant improvements in reaction time. For example, should a fire occur in a chemical plant, if news of the fire is known on a timely basis as well as the nature of the chemical substances typically present in the plant, it may be possible to provide a considerable advantage in both reaction time as well as fire fighting strategy. Considerable waste of time and life can be avoided.
The following art defines the present state of this field:
Dedrick, U.S. Pat. No. 5,717,923 describes a method and apparatus for dynamically customizing electronic information to individual end users including a client system containing a personal profile database which stores consumer information corresponding to individual end user(s) of the client system. The client system also includes a content adapter which compares electronic information received by the client system to the consumer information in the personal profile database and customizes the electronic information to an individual end user based on this comparison. The client system also includes a client activity monitor which monitors actions taken by an individual end user when consuming electronic information and updates the personal profile database based on these actions. In one embodiment, the client activity monitor also monitors which actions are ignored by the individual end user and updates the personal profile database based on the consumer's interaction with the electronic information (that is, both the consumer's action and inaction). In one embodiment, an electronic information server containing a plurality of electronic information units is coupled to the client system via an electronic information distribution network and serves as the source of the electronic information.
Applicant further disclosed in the Background section: Reilly et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,740,549 describes an information and advertising distribution system. A data server stores and updates a database of information items and advertisements. The information items and advertisements are each categorized so that each has an associated information category. Workstations remotely located from the data server each include a display device, a communication interface for receiving at least a subset of the information items and advertisements in the data server's database and local memory for storing the information items and advertisements received from the data server. An information administrator in each workstation establishes communication with the data server from time to time so as to update the information items and advertisements stored in local memory with at least a subset of the information items and advertisements stored by the data server. An information display controller in each workstation displays on the workstation's display device at least a subset of the information items and advertisements stored in local memory when the workstation meets predefined idleness criteria. At least a subset of the workstations includes a profiler for storing subscriber profile data. The subscriber profile data represents subscriber information viewing preferences, indicating information categories for which the subscriber does and does not want to view information items. The information display controller includes a filter for excluding from the information items displayed on the display device those information items inconsistent with the subscriber profile data.
Dedrick, U.S. Pat. No. 5,752,238 describes a consumer-driven electronic information pricing mechanism including a pricing modulator and pricing interface is contained within a client system. The pricing modulator contains multiple pricing options for electronic content and multiple content to advertisement ratios associated with the pricing options. The pricing interface is coupled to the pricing modulator and provides an end user with the pricing options and associated content to advertisement ratios, and also accepts pricing option selections from the end user. In one embodiment, a metering server is coupled to the client system. The metering server contains the multiple pricing options which are to be made available to the end user and transfers these pricing options to the client system. In one embodiment, the pricing interface can be accessed by the end user at any time during the operation of the client system. The end user can change the pricing option during system operation.
Herz et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,754,939 describes a customized electronic identification of desirable objects, such as news articles, in an electronic media environment, and in particular to a system that automatically constructs both a “target profile” for each target object in the electronic media based, for example, on the frequency with which each word appears in an article relative to its overall frequency of use in all articles, as well as a “target profile interest summary” for each user, which target profile interest summary describes the user's interest level in various types of target objects. The system then evaluates the target profiles against the users' target profile interest summaries to generate a user-customized rank ordered listing of target objects most likely to be of interest to each user so that the user can select from among these potentially relevant target objects, which were automatically selected by this system from the plethora of target objects that are profiled on the electronic media. Users' target profile inter
Kamei Takaaki
Koga Makio
Brown & Michaels PC
Mahmoudi Hassan
Rones Charles
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