Patent ID: 7283045
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: G08B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A network event warning system enabling distribution of event warning messages to one or more affected individual entities within the network information system is provided comprising: (a) one or more situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateways capable of receiving event warnings from linked and/or remote sensors, and/or other externally generated event warning messages, each of said situation awareness workstation and threat warning gateways comprising: a gateway wireless communications means capable of receiving and transmitting data; and situational awareness workstation computing means in communication with the situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateway and wireless communication means, said situational awareness workstation computing means; (b) one or more network bridges in communication with the situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateway, each network bridge defining a local node, said network bridges providing a communications interface between individual user warning and positioning devices and the situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateway, each of said network bridges comprising: (c) one or more user warning and positioning devices, each user warning and positioning device defining an individual node, each of said devices comprising: (d) network situational awareness workstation application program code embodied on a computer readable medium for execution on the situational awareness workstation and threat gateway computer processing means capable of authenticating event warning messages, processing and analyzing the event warning messages via an event prediction determination process to produce predicted future event warning messages, and distributing future event warning messages to the network bridges comprising: (e) bridge application program code embodied on a computer readable medium for execution on the network bridge computer processing means for processing event warning messages received from the situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateway, and other external sources, determining which user warning and positioning devices in communication with the local node will be affected by the future event, and distributing an authenticated event warning message of an event to occur in the future to all affected user warning and positioning devices, said bridge application program code comprising: (f) user warning and positioning device application program code embodied on a computer-readable medium for execution on the user warning device computer processing means in conjunction with the bridge application program code and the situational awareness workstation program code, said user warning device application program code being capable of decoding messages, validating received event warning messages, and then issuing a notification of an event predicted to occur in the future in the locale of the user warning device, said user warning device application program code comprising: