Patent ID: 7299152

Claim:
A method of monitoring and analyzing event data associated with activities of concern, said method comprising the steps of: collecting raw data packages from a plurality of locations dispersed over a large geographic area, each raw data package originating at a location, each raw data package including data selected from the group of data classes consisting of: (i) date and time of an event, (ii) means used to collect said data at said location, (iii) a record of said event; (iv) type of said location where said event occurred, (v) identification data collected at said event and associated with individuals involved in said event, (vi) a category assigned to said event at said location, (vii) an evaluation of said event that originates at said location, and (viii) a response to said event implemented at said location; performing a plurality of statistical analyses concurrently for each of said plurality of unique time periods using each of said raw data packages wherein statistical results of said statistical analyses are generated, each of said plurality of statistical analyses being based on one of a plurality of unique time periods wherein each of said plurality of statistical analyses relates ones of said raw data packages occurring in a most recent one of said plurality of unique time periods to ones of said raw data packages occurring in historical ones of said plurality of unique time periods; storing said statistical results in a database; performing a plurality of correlations using said results to generate correlation results; and sending an alert to at least a portion of said plurality of locations based on said correlation results.