Patent ID: 7602281
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A network event warning system enabling distribution of event warning messages to one or more individual entities within the network information system comprising: (a) one or more situational awareness workstation and threat warning gateways capable of receiving at least one of event warnings from at least one of linked and remote sensors, and 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 position 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, 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 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 and analyzing 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: