Patent ID: 7587404
Filing Date: 2009-09-08
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for supporting homeland security decisions made by human system users in a maritime context, said method executed by a client-server based computing architecture comprised of one or more server computers and one or more user computers, said method comprising the computer-based steps of: said server computers accessing data from two or more sources, said two or more sources including one or more structured data sources and one or more unstructured data sources; where said data from any of said sources is not in structured form, structuring the unstructured data by application of information extraction logic to form structured data, whereby said data from said two or more sources is in structured form; where any portion of said data in structured form is not in XML, processing the non-XML structured data by conversion of said non-XML structured data to XML to thereby form structured XML data; said server computers hierarchically organizing conditional decision and simulation logic to: allowing the system users to change the conditional decision and simulation logic, thereby resulting in dynamic modification of system processing at different levels of the conditional logic hierarchy, utilizing COTS XML based software services and communications.