Patent ID: 7047203

Claim:
A method of managing and responding to inputs received via communications with participants in a service to enhance personal security, comprising the steps of: (a) prompting a participant in an interactive display on a computer connected to a communications network during a first communication to provide at least, said participant's name, an itinerary completion time and a contact name and contact telephone number, (b) establishing during said first communication with said participant via said communications network a cancellation code, (c) storing said participant's name, itinerary completion time, contact name, contact telephone number and cancellation code in an itinerary record in a computer accessible data file, (d) before said itinerary completion time, if a second communication including said cancellation code is received, changing the condition of said itinerary record to a condition selected from the group consisting of deleted or inactive, and, (e) after said itinerary completion time, if the condition of said computer accessible data file is not a condition selected from the group consisting of deleted or inactive, transmitting to a call back function a record including at least the name of participant, contact name and contact telephone number, so that said call back function can be performed, said call-back function including at least the step of placing a call to said contact telephone number to inform said contact person that participant has not communicated said cancellation code prior to said itinerary completion time.