Patent ID: 8160891

Claim:
An information distribution method for distributing information related to a disaster to a customer, comprising: utilizing an information distribution apparatus in distributing information related to said disaster, said utilizing comprising: pre-setting customer district information according to which said customer requests distribution of information, said pre-setting including selecting a matching table of a plurality of matching tables, each matching table of the plurality of matching tables indicating multiple conditions to be met before disaster information is to be forwarded to customers selecting that matching table, the multiple conditions comprising at least one geographic condition of a plurality of geographic conditions and at least one disaster level condition of a plurality of disaster level conditions; receiving disaster-occurred information and identifying a disaster-occurred district and a level of said disaster; using the customer selected matching table in deciding whether to distribute information related to said disaster to said customer based on the at least one geographic condition compared with said disaster-occurred district and the at least one disaster level condition compared with said disaster level; and distributing to said customer said disaster information responsive to the deciding that both the at least one geographic condition and the at least one disaster level condition are met by the disaster, said distributing including concurrently distributing a questionnaire related to said disaster to said customer; and automatically analyzing responses to the questionnaire distributed to the customer concurrent with the disaster information, wherein the analyzing results in generating updated disaster information and the method further comprises posting the updated disaster information on a website, the website providing the updated disaster information in real time based, in part, on the customer's responses.