Patent ID: 7644056
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented methodology augmented with the Internet to provide a terrorism and warning indicator report comprising: a. establishing a set of features associated with terrorist acts for a given environment in a given geographic area; b. establishing a community network, relating each feature to another feature in the set of features and weighting relationships between the features; c. establishing baseline values related to each feature in the set of features associated with a no threat condition; d. calculating conditional assessments of concerned pathways through the community network; e. assembling the conditional assessments into a hierarchy of potential threats; f. collecting current specific features values, assigning such values to the community network, assessing relationships and establishing revised weightings, assessing the established concerned pathways related to the baseline values, establishing concerned alternative pathways, establishing concerned assessment and assigning such concerned assessment into a hierarchy of potential threats; g. establishing a warning level based on the hierarchy of potential threats; h. identifying features of the feature set that are drivers in the concerned assessment; i. searching the Internet using the features of the set of features and assigning values to each feature as a function of the Internet response; j. calculating an Internet conditional assessment of concerned features and weighted relationships through the community network using the feature values from the Internet; k. assembling the Internet conditional assessments into a second hierarchy of potential threats; l. validating such warning levels using an alternative methodology selecting at least one from the group of Hypothesis Testing, Matrix Logic, Chronological Sorting and Questions that Guide; m. identifying variance among steps g, k, and l; n. providing a composite warning level to a decision maker in the form of an indicator report wherein the report cites the composite threat level related to the no threat condition with reasons for the variances of step m; o. reassessing the set of features for effective coverage of the given environment in a given geographic area related to step a; and p. using a period of time related to the composite warning level of step n, repeating steps b through n after such period has elapsed; adjusting such period with each iteration to achieve real time relevance between the composite warning level and the given environmental activities; and creating a new indicator report based on the iterations.