Patent ID: 11908031
Assignee: DIGITAL SEAT MEDIA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method for determining if students at an educational institution are accounted for during an emergency comprising:
a. receiving a request from a student device that has scanned an encoded tag during a time window for taking attendance, the encoded tag assigned to the educational institution, including a uniform resource locator (URL) to a server that receives the request, and including a tag ID to identify the encoded tag that was scanned to initiate the request from the student device;
b. identifying the student device that made the request and adding the identified student device to an attendance log of student devices that have also scanned encoded tags assigned to the educational institution during the time window for taking attendance;
c. in response to identifying an emergency situation, sending a notification to each student device on the attendance log, the notification requesting the student to send a reply to the notification;
d. tracking and counting student devices that have replied to the notification and student devices counted as being present on the attendance log; and
e. using the attendance log of student devices, identifying if student devices are in attendance and nonresponsive to the notification.