Method and System for an Integrated Incident Information and Intelligence System

Abstract

Providing a system and method for identifying and characterizing incidents. The system and method can receive information from telecommunications networks or other information providers that may trigger generating an Incident Record. The Incident Record may further be analyzed to characterize the type of incident. This further analysis may include retrieving data from multiple data sources to support the application of rules used to characterize the incident. Additionally, analyses from multiple incidents may be combined if determined to relate to a single event.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method running on a computer comprising the steps of:
 receiving, at the computer, an incident record;   determining, by the computer, a geographic area associated with the incident record;   accessing, by the computer, a plurality of basic event rules and advanced event rules;   retrieving, by the computer, stored data comprising historical incident event data, dynamic data, and static data, wherein the historical incident event data, dynamic data, and static data are associated with the geographic area associated with the incident record;   comparing, by the computer, the historical incident event data to at least one of the dynamic data and static data; and   providing a result of the comparison.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the step of retrieving, by the computer, stored data further comprises retrieving data from third party sources. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the result comprises an characterization of the incident. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , wherein the result comprises a recommendation of an action resulting from the characterization. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the dynamic data comprises data from data sensors. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the dynamic data comprises data from a first data source comprising a wireless telecommunications network and a second data source comprising a source other than a wireless telecommunications network. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6  wherein the second data source comprising a source other than a wireless telecommunications network comprises one of a weather information source, a news information source, or a calendar event information source. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising the step of applying, by the computer, a situation analyzer to obtain additional data from one or more mobile stations prior to performing the step of providing a result. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8  wherein the step of applying a situation analyzer to obtain additional data from one or more mobile stations comprise the steps of:
 identifying one or more mobile stations for obtaining additional data; and 
 receiving available location data for each identified mobile station. 
 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9  wherein the step of receiving available location data for each identified mobile station is in response to sending a location request to each identified mobile station. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 9  further comprising the step of extracting user-specific information from a privacy database. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 8  wherein the applying step is triggered based on the result of the comparing step. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the comparing step comprises applying event rules. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13  wherein the event rules comprise basic event rules and advanced event rules.