| US 7,460,020 B2 | ||
| Computer-enabled, networked, facility emergency notification, management and alarm system | ||
| Tommy D. Reyes, Port Angeles, Wash. (US); and Garry O. Thompson, Port Angeles, Wash. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Incident Alert Systems, LLC, Port Angeles, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 27, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/862,929. | ||
| Application 11/862929 is a continuation in part of application No. 11/228817, filed on Sep. 16, 2005, granted, now 7,277,018, filed on Oct. 02, 2007. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/656198, filed on Feb. 24, 2005. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/610810, filed on Sep. 17, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0048851 A1, Feb. 28, 2008 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G08B 23/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 340—573.1 [340/506; 340/521; 340/531; 340/541; 340/572.1] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A computer-enabled rapid alert propagation and management system for initiating audio and/or visual alarms relating to
emergency events that can threaten the safety of occupants in places of public, private and governmental facilities comprising
in operative combination:
a) a secure network between a central administrative office of a public, private or governmental facility and a plurality
of remote, related occupant space sites associated with said facility;
b) a plurality of multi-tone audio alarms disposed associated with at least some of said occupant space sites connected to
said network, said alarms being selected from tone alarms and voice message delivery devices;
c) at least one computer including functionality of an application server for providing an alarm data signal to said network,
said application server including a rapid alert initiation, management and archiving application program as an individual
application or as part of an Operating System program suite;
d) at least one connectivity device functioning as a client computer linked to said network including a CPU, a data entry
device, a display device, an operating program, and a client user interface for an authorized user to access said application
server via said network to interact with said rapid alert application program to trigger user-selected ones of said alarms
propagated on said network in response to user command inputs to said application program via said client computer, said user
commands including inputs: for selecting sites from among a plurality of occupant space sites in said facility; for selecting
and confirming alert alarms from a plurality of types of alerts, including at least two of: lockdown; evacuate, shelter in
place, all clear; and for selecting termination of an alarm from an alarm- off button; and
e) whereby said system provides authorized user-configured and selected rapid alerts to user-selected occupants or sites of
said facility of impending or in-progress dangerous or threatening events from anywhere on the network in one or more of levels
of directed action to be taken by occupants, and permitting viewing of the status of the alerts by responding personnel during
the course of the event, and archiving data about the event including user-initiator of the alert, level of the alert, date
and time of alert activation, and change in alert status to an all clear status at the termination of the event.
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