Patent Document ID: 7590606
Application ID: 10703039

Base Claim:
1. A system for analyzing a mishap that has occurred, the system comprising: a reconfigurable ontology associated with a selected mishap, including a list of at least first and second ontology classes related to the selected mishap, at least one definition or property for each of the at least two ontology classes, a value range associated with each of the at least two ontology classes, and at least one relationship or link between the at least two ontology classes, wherein at least one of the at least first and second ontology classes includes information on at least one of the following: a collection of one or more persons assembled to investigate the mishap; a project with which the mishap is associated; a process or procedure associated with the mishap; at least one person involved in or responsible one or more events leading directly to the mishap; at least one location or site associated with the mishap; a characterization of the mishap; a record associated with the mishap; a document associated with the mishap; physical evidence associated with the mishap; a value of a parameter that is part of a description associated with the mishap; a characterization or classification of a sub-system associated with the mishap; an interview of at least one person associated with the mishap; a description of at least one operation associated with the mishap; at least one inspection associated with the mishap; at least one design record of at least one component associated with the mishap; an analysis of at least one aspect of the mishap; and at least one result of an investigation of the mishap; a semantic network that receives, indexes, stores and integrates, for retrieval, the at least two ontology classes, the definition and the value ranges of the at least two ontology classes and the at least one link between the at least two ontology classes; a network browser interface, having a display screen, that implements a procedure for retrieving and viewing each of the at least two ontology classes in the semantic network, wherein the browser interface (i) displays at least one screen having at least a first group and a second group of possible conclusions concerning a contributing factor to the mishap, where no possible conclusion in the first group also belongs to the second group and (ii) displays at least one conclusion in the first group or in the second group that is characterized as at least one of the following: not a credible conclusion; an unlikely conclusion; a credible conclusion; conclusion needs analysis; conclusion needs supporting data; conclusion proposed to be closed; and an un-reviewed conclusion; and a rule-based inference engine, including a collection of at least two rules, associated with one or more of the at least two ontology classes and applied to support the at least one conclusion displayed in the browser interface.

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Claim 15:
15. The system of claim 1 , wherein said information on said sub-system of said mishap includes information on at least one of the following: at least one design for a project associated with said mishap; at least one design record for the project; at least one analysis of at least one design for the project; at least one preceding record of a preceding mishap; at least one risk assessment for the project; at least one test and verification record for the project; and at least one integration record for the project.