Patent ID: 7764185
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: G08B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A network event warning system enabling distribution of event warning messages to one or more individual entities within the network event warning system comprising: (a) one or more situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateways configured to receive event warnings from linked and/or remote sensors, and/or other externally generated event warning messages, the situation awareness workstation and threat warning gateways selected from the group consisting of fixed location gateways and tactical/mobile gateways, each of said gateways comprising: a wireless communications means configured to receive and transmitting data; and a situational awareness workstation computing means in communication with the wireless communication means; (b) one or more network bridges in communication with the situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateways, 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 gateways, each of said network bridges comprising: (c) one or more user warning and positioning devices, each user warning and position device defining an individual node, each of said user warning and positioning devices comprising: (d) network situational awareness workstation application program code embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for execution on the situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateway computer processing means configured to authenticate 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 non-transitory 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 gateways, and other external sources, and distributing an authenticated event warning message of an event to occur in the future, said bridge application program code comprising: (f) user warning and positioning device application program code embodied on a non-transitory 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 configured to decode messages, validating and analyzing event warning messages, issuing a notification of an event predicted to occur in the future in the locale of the user warning and positioning device, and relay received messages, said user warning and positioning device application program code comprising: