Global asset risk management systems and methods
US008249886B2
(12) United States Patent
(10) Patent N0.: US 8,249,886 B2 (45) Date of Patent: *Aug. 21, 2012
Meyer et a1. (54)
GLOBAL ASSET RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS
(75)
Inventors: Mark Gregory Meyer, Benton, MD (US); Darrell Bruce Mclndoe,
5,819,284 5,948,040 5,999,882 6,067,539 6,236,980
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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iJET Press Release from Website, iJETandAIRO Wireless Partner to Combine Real-Time Travel Alerts with Pinpoint-Accurate Location Solution in Single Mobile Phone, dated Sep. 15, 2003.
(21) Appl. No.: 12/506,226 (22)
Flled:
(Continued)
Jul‘ 20’ 2009
Primary Examiner * Jonathan Ouellette
Prior Publication Data
US 2009/0281856 A1
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Wolff LaW Of?ces PLLC; Kevin Alan Wolff
Nov. 12, 2009
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Jul. 27, 2007, noW Pat. No. 7,590,548, Which iS a continuation of application No. 10/ 947,435, ?led on
at least one risk information source receiving risk informa tion, and generating a risk assessment report based on the risk information. In various embodiments, the systems and meth ods may include a risk information source, an asset informa
Sep. 23, 2004, noW Pat. No. 7,343,303, Which iS a continuation-in-part of application No. 09/619,245, ?lcd on Jul. 19, 2000, HOW Pat- No- 6,842,737-
tion source, and an analysis system that correlates one or
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mation, In various embodiments, the systems and methods may be applied globally assessing risks that occur in any
See application ?le for complete search history.
region or country throughout the World, for any type of risk(s)
References Cited
or any type of asset(s). In various embodiments, the systems and methods may be bene?cial to business organizations for
more risks With one or more assets. In various embodiments,
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identifying, quantifying and/or managing potential and/or US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,006,985 A 5,806,049 A
actual operating risks.
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Chris Yeung, Pang-Fei Tung, “A Multi-Agent Based Tourism Kiosk on Internet,” Proc. 31“ Annual Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences, IEEE, vol. IV, 1998, pp. 452-461. D. T. Ndumu et al., “Towards Desktop Personal Travel Agents,” BT Technol J., vol. 12, No. 3, Jul. 1998, pp. 69-78. D.W. Embley et al., “A Conceptual-Modeling Approach to Extract
ing Data from the Web,” Conceptual ModelingiER ’98, 17th Inter
16-19, 1998, pp. 78-91, Springer. Ching-Chi Hsu et al., “Constructing Personal Digital Library by Multi-Search and Customized Category,” Tenth IEEE, International Conference on Tools With Arti?cial Intelligence, Nov. 10-12, 1998, pp. 148-155.
Steffen Staab et al., “A System for Facilitating and Enhancing Web
Search,” Engineering Applications of Bio-Inspired Arti?cial Neural Networks, Jun. 2-4, 1999 Proceedings, vol. II, Springer. Steffen Staab et al., “GETESSiSearching the Web Exploiting Ger man Texts,” Cooperative Information Agents III, Jul. 31-Aug. 2, 1999
1/2005 Zimmersetal. .............. [379/37
Proceedings, pp. 113-124, Springer.
2/2005 3/2006
Andre Hubner et al., “Last Minute Travel Application,” Deployed Applications, Eleventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Arti?cial Intelligence, Jul. 18-22, 1999, pp. 794-798. Pat Langley et al., “An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Desti nation Advice,” Cooperative Information Agents III, Third Interna
Munson etal. ............. .. 715/712 Diendorfetal. ............ .. 701/208
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS W0
Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE, vol. IV, 1998, pp. 405-414.
national Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Singapore, Nov.
2002/0099586 A1 2003/0225612 A1
A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1
Hsieh-Chang Tu & Jieh Hsiang, “An Architecture and Category Knowledge for Intelligent Information Retrieval Agents,” Proc. 31“
W0 04/061596
7/2004
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
tional Workshop, CIA’99, Jul. 31-Aug. 2, 1999 Proceedings,
International SOS (an AEA Company) Global Security Services “The Most Effective Call for Help is Still SOS,”
Colm O’Riordan & Humphrey Sorensen, “An Agent-Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering,” Cooperative Information Agents III, Third International Workshop, CIA’99, Jul. 31-Aug. 2, 1999 Proceedings, pp. 125-136, Springer. A, Erni, M, C, Norrie, “SnowNet: An Agent-Based Internet Tourist
iJET Press Release from website, iJE T Launches W0rldcue® Expat, dated Feb. 19, 2003. Kettner et a1; “When Vacations Turn Sour, Travel Agents Need E&O
Insurance,” Oct. 1994, AmericanAgent & Broker, v66n10, pp. 67-68, dialog, 3 pages. A Min Tjoa (ED.), “Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 1997,” SpringerComputerScience, 1997, 7 pgs., SpringerWien, New York. Thomas Steiner, “Distributed Software Agents for WWW-based Tourism Information Systems (DATIS),” SpringerComputerScience, 1997, pp. 47-56, SpringerWien, New York. Marlene Piturro, “Places,” Electronic Retailing, May/Jun. 1997, pp. 23-27.
Springer.
Information Service,” Institute for Information Systems, pp. 29-38. Marketing Materials titled “Broadstrokes and IDSi jointly bring you
GeoResponse Moving Beyond Traditional Emergency Response Noti?cation” found approximately Feb. 8, 2005 (1 sheet). Screen shots from the www.broadstrokesinc.com website (2 sheets) dated Feb. 9, 2005.
Screen shots from the wvvw.idsigis.com website (8 sheets) dated Feb. 9, 2005. Erni, Antonia; Norrie, Moira C ., “SnowNet: An Agent-Based Internet Tourist Information Service,” Pro. 4”’ Int. Conf. on Information and
Communication Technology in Tourism, Edinburgh, Scotland. Jan.
Kim Komando, “Komputer Klinic Using Your PC as a Travel Agent,”
1997.
Electronic Retailing, Online Retailing TM, May/Jun. 1997, pp. Akihiko Ohsuga, et al., “PLANGENT: An Approach to Making Mobile Agents Intelligent,” IEEE Internet Computing, Jul./ Aug.
BBC News; “World Millennium travel danger spots” Published Tues day, Sep. 14, 1999 10:33 GMT 11:33 UK hhtp://news.bbc.co.uld2/ hi/446539.stm; Retrieved Aug. 18, 2010. Examination Report for UK IPO, Application No. GB0707794.4i
1997, 8 pgs.
Dated Sep. 7, 2009 (4Sheets).
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(12) United States Patent
(10) Patent N0.: US 8,249,886 B2 (45) Date of Patent: *Aug. 21, 2012
Meyer et a1. (54)
GLOBAL ASSET RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS
(75)
Inventors: Mark Gregory Meyer, Benton, MD (US); Darrell Bruce Mclndoe,
5,819,284 5,948,040 5,999,882 6,067,539 6,236,980
A A A A B1
10/1998 9/1999 12/1999 5/2000 5/2001
6,259,976 B1
7/2001 Lemelson et a1. .............. .. 701/3
Brookev1lle, MD (US)
(Continued)
ASSigneeZ EEDTIIJIgerIlatimlal, ( ) Inc-, Annapolis, ( * ) Notice:
W0
WO 97/17680
Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
This patent is Subject to a terminal dis_ Claimen
iJET Press Release from Website, iJETandAIRO Wireless Partner to Combine Real-Time Travel Alerts with Pinpoint-Accurate Location Solution in Single Mobile Phone, dated Sep. 15, 2003.
(21) Appl. No.: 12/506,226 (22)
Flled:
(Continued)
Jul‘ 20’ 2009
Primary Examiner * Jonathan Ouellette
Prior Publication Data
US 2009/0281856 A1
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Wolff LaW Of?ces PLLC; Kevin Alan Wolff
Nov. 12, 2009
(57) R1tdU.S.A
e a 6
(63)
5/1997 (Continued)
U.S.C. 154(1)) by 544 days.
(65)
Farber et a1. DeLorme et a1. Simpson et a1. Cohen Reese “““““““““““““““““ " 705/36
1'
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Dt
ABSTRACT .
a a
.
Systems and methods for r1sk assessment are dlsclosed. In
Continuation of application No. 11/ 881,566, ?led on
various embodiments, the systems and methods may include
Jul. 27, 2007, noW Pat. No. 7,590,548, Which iS a continuation of application No. 10/ 947,435, ?led on
at least one risk information source receiving risk informa tion, and generating a risk assessment report based on the risk information. In various embodiments, the systems and meth ods may include a risk information source, an asset informa
Sep. 23, 2004, noW Pat. No. 7,343,303, Which iS a continuation-in-part of application No. 09/619,245, ?lcd on Jul. 19, 2000, HOW Pat- No- 6,842,737-
tion source, and an analysis system that correlates one or
(51)
Int- ClG06Q 1 0/00
the systems and methods may generate a risk assessment report from the correlated risk information and asset infor
(52) (58)
US. Cl. ...................................................... .. 705/11 Field of Classi?cation Search ...................... .. None
mation, In various embodiments, the systems and methods may be applied globally assessing risks that occur in any
See application ?le for complete search history.
region or country throughout the World, for any type of risk(s)
References Cited
or any type of asset(s). In various embodiments, the systems and methods may be bene?cial to business organizations for
more risks With one or more assets. In various embodiments,
(56)
(2012-01)
identifying, quantifying and/or managing potential and/or US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,006,985 A 5,806,049 A
actual operating risks.
4/1991 Ehret et a1. 9/1998
20 Claims, 40 Drawing Sheets
PetruZZi ........................ .. 705/36
Travel information Logical Architecture 26
_
Travel information Functional Architecture
I
Product/Service delivery Channels,
Product/Samoa Dem/e0’
“-
T 22
P
d
Us
m U0
, emce
28
including Intranets, Kiosks, Wireless,
Internet and the Like C
t,
Travel information report Creation, Alert
rea ‘on
Characterization, Distribution
/
24
List Development and the Like i 8
Information Development/Application
_‘
Health, Security and Safety Business
____—__T____
Rules Application
.
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Medlc?l lnloimaiics and ~
OvZrslght, Adiliisement and Epidemiology Finding liorn Business Rules Development
" 1 6
Clinic Networks Data
14 _
intimation Acquisition from Partners and Other information Sources
4 F
US 8,249,886 B2 Page 2 US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 6,278,965 B1
6,292,830 B1 6,314,366 B1 6,397,163 B1
8/2001
Glass et a1. ................... .. 703/22
9/2001 Taylor et al. 11/2001 Farmakis et al. 5/2002 Hoyt et al.
6,418,417 B1
7/2002 Corby et al.
6,603,428 B2
8/2003
6,662,195 B1 6,785,274 B2 2001/0027388 A1 200 1/00273 89 A1 2002/0002548
A1
2002/0059093 A1
. 709/224 . 701/201 . 702/136
705/35
Stilp ........................... .. 342/457
12/2003 Langseth et a1. 8/2004 10/2001
Mahajan et a1. ............ .. 370/390 Beverina et al. ..
10/ 2001 Beverina et al. 1/2002
Roundtree
.....
. . . ..
5/2002 Barton et al.
707/1
705/10
7/2002 12/2003
Bladen et al. ................... .. 705/7 DeSimone et al. ........... .. 705/13
2003/0225687 2004/0039613 2004/0039614 2004/0039615 2004/0039616 2004/0039617 2004/0236604 2005/0013417
12/ 2003
Lawrence
2/ 2004 2/ 2004 2/ 2004 2/ 2004 2/ 2004
Maycotte Maycotte Maycotte Maycotte Maycotte
2005/0034074 A1 2006/0047419 A1
11/2004
........ ..
et et et et et
al. al. al. al. al.
.. .. .. .. ..
McNair ............ ..
Chris Yeung, Pang-Fei Tung, “A Multi-Agent Based Tourism Kiosk on Internet,” Proc. 31“ Annual Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences, IEEE, vol. IV, 1998, pp. 452-461. D. T. Ndumu et al., “Towards Desktop Personal Travel Agents,” BT Technol J., vol. 12, No. 3, Jul. 1998, pp. 69-78. D.W. Embley et al., “A Conceptual-Modeling Approach to Extract
ing Data from the Web,” Conceptual ModelingiER ’98, 17th Inter
16-19, 1998, pp. 78-91, Springer. Ching-Chi Hsu et al., “Constructing Personal Digital Library by Multi-Search and Customized Category,” Tenth IEEE, International Conference on Tools With Arti?cial Intelligence, Nov. 10-12, 1998, pp. 148-155.
Steffen Staab et al., “A System for Facilitating and Enhancing Web
Search,” Engineering Applications of Bio-Inspired Arti?cial Neural Networks, Jun. 2-4, 1999 Proceedings, vol. II, Springer. Steffen Staab et al., “GETESSiSearching the Web Exploiting Ger man Texts,” Cooperative Information Agents III, Jul. 31-Aug. 2, 1999
1/2005 Zimmersetal. .............. [379/37
Proceedings, pp. 113-124, Springer.
2/2005 3/2006
Andre Hubner et al., “Last Minute Travel Application,” Deployed Applications, Eleventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Arti?cial Intelligence, Jul. 18-22, 1999, pp. 794-798. Pat Langley et al., “An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Desti nation Advice,” Cooperative Information Agents III, Third Interna
Munson etal. ............. .. 715/712 Diendorfetal. ............ .. 701/208
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS W0
Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE, vol. IV, 1998, pp. 405-414.
national Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Singapore, Nov.
2002/0099586 A1 2003/0225612 A1
A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1
Hsieh-Chang Tu & Jieh Hsiang, “An Architecture and Category Knowledge for Intelligent Information Retrieval Agents,” Proc. 31“
W0 04/061596
7/2004
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
tional Workshop, CIA’99, Jul. 31-Aug. 2, 1999 Proceedings,
International SOS (an AEA Company) Global Security Services “The Most Effective Call for Help is Still SOS,”
Colm O’Riordan & Humphrey Sorensen, “An Agent-Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering,” Cooperative Information Agents III, Third International Workshop, CIA’99, Jul. 31-Aug. 2, 1999 Proceedings, pp. 125-136, Springer. A, Erni, M, C, Norrie, “SnowNet: An Agent-Based Internet Tourist
iJET Press Release from website, iJE T Launches W0rldcue® Expat, dated Feb. 19, 2003. Kettner et a1; “When Vacations Turn Sour, Travel Agents Need E&O
Insurance,” Oct. 1994, AmericanAgent & Broker, v66n10, pp. 67-68, dialog, 3 pages. A Min Tjoa (ED.), “Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 1997,” SpringerComputerScience, 1997, 7 pgs., SpringerWien, New York. Thomas Steiner, “Distributed Software Agents for WWW-based Tourism Information Systems (DATIS),” SpringerComputerScience, 1997, pp. 47-56, SpringerWien, New York. Marlene Piturro, “Places,” Electronic Retailing, May/Jun. 1997, pp. 23-27.
Springer.
Information Service,” Institute for Information Systems, pp. 29-38. Marketing Materials titled “Broadstrokes and IDSi jointly bring you
GeoResponse Moving Beyond Traditional Emergency Response Noti?cation” found approximately Feb. 8, 2005 (1 sheet). Screen shots from the www.broadstrokesinc.com website (2 sheets) dated Feb. 9, 2005.
Screen shots from the wvvw.idsigis.com website (8 sheets) dated Feb. 9, 2005. Erni, Antonia; Norrie, Moira C ., “SnowNet: An Agent-Based Internet Tourist Information Service,” Pro. 4”’ Int. Conf. on Information and
Communication Technology in Tourism, Edinburgh, Scotland. Jan.
Kim Komando, “Komputer Klinic Using Your PC as a Travel Agent,”
1997.
Electronic Retailing, Online Retailing TM, May/Jun. 1997, pp. Akihiko Ohsuga, et al., “PLANGENT: An Approach to Making Mobile Agents Intelligent,” IEEE Internet Computing, Jul./ Aug.
BBC News; “World Millennium travel danger spots” Published Tues day, Sep. 14, 1999 10:33 GMT 11:33 UK hhtp://news.bbc.co.uld2/ hi/446539.stm; Retrieved Aug. 18, 2010. Examination Report for UK IPO, Application No. GB0707794.4i
1997, 8 pgs.
Dated Sep. 7, 2009 (4Sheets).
20-21 .
US. Patent
Aug. 21, 2012
Sheet 2 0f 40
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Marketing
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Content
Opportunity
Acquisition!
Identification
Aggregation
I d 3135x120“
Back Office
Partnership Relationship Management Content
Management
intelligence
System
36
Administration!
Content
Memes
Repository
Bming
Products
Memt?ei_
intelligence
Customer
Events/Alert
42
Travel
Personalization
Report
Distribution
Relationship Management E-Commerce
Yeiiow Book
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My
( Internet Site )
Products
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Aug. 21, 2012
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