Patent ID: 9697496
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method, for processing damage survey information associated with a disaster event, comprising: receiving, by a computer server having a computer-processing unit, the damage survey information including: analyzing, by the computer server, the damage survey information to determine to which of a plurality of disaster recovery dispatch units the computer server should route the damage survey information; routing, by the computer server, in response to the computer server determining, based on the analyzing, that all physical plants damaged in the disaster event are associated with the same physical plant type, as identified by their respective physical plant type identifiers, the damage survey information to a disaster recovery dispatch unit, of the plurality of disaster recovery dispatch units, that is pre-assigned to repair the physical plant type identified by the respective physical plant type identifiers; routing, by the computer server, in response to the computer server determining, based on the analyzing, that all physical plants damaged in the disaster event are not of the same type, but are associated by their physical plant types with a physical plant type of a predefined group of physical plant types that a specific disaster recovery dispatch unit of the plurality of disaster recovery dispatch units is pre-assigned to repair, the damage survey information to the specific disaster recovery dispatch unit of the plurality of disaster recovery dispatch units that is pre-assigned to repair the predefined group of physical plant types; performing, in response to the computer server determining, based on the analyzing, that at least some of the physical plants damaged in the disaster event are associated with different physical plant types that are not all part of the predefined group of physical plant types, according to their respective physical plant type identifiers, operations comprising: