Patent Document ID: 20130198124
Application ID: 13750469
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of identifying at least one event zone subject to an event, wherein the method comprises: receiving first event related data from intelligent electronic devices, and determining whether the at least one event zone subject to the event is a primary monitoring zone of at least one of the intelligent electronic devices or a non-primary monitoring zone for all of the intelligent electronic devices, a primary monitoring zone of an intelligent electronic device being a monitoring zone which that intelligent electronic device is assigned to monitor, a non-primary monitoring zone being either an event zone having a power level which differs from the power level monitored by the intelligent electronic devices or an adjacent monitoring zone to all of the electronic intelligent devices, wherein the determining comprises determining a conditional probability that the first event related data is a result of the event having occurred in an adjacent monitoring zone of all intelligent electronic devices, conditional probabilities for each intelligent electronic device that the first event related data is a result of the event having occurred in the primary monitoring zone of one of the intelligent electronic devices, conditional probabilities that the first event related data is a result of the event having occurred in a primary monitoring zone of more than one intelligent electronic device, each determined conditional probability thereby being associated with at least one event zone, and determining whether the event occurred in at least one primary monitoring zone or in a non-primary monitoring zone based on the conditional probabilities.