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US 10,503,347 B2Granted
System and method for detecting, collecting, analyzing, and communicating event-related information
AssigneeGeorgetown University
InventorsAhmed A. Humayun, Steven J. Silverstein, Gregory P. Zalasky, Kevin D. Jones
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Abstract
A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global scale, assigning disease or non-disease event staging and warnings to express data in more simplistic terms, modeling data in conjunction with linguistics analysis to establish responsive actions, generating visualization and modeling capabilities for communicating information, and modeling disease or non-disease propagation for containment and forecasting purposes.
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A computer-aided system for detecting and communicating information regarding a socially disruptive event having an event type, the system comprising:
- non-transitory computer readable storage media that stores:
- indicators associated with a plurality of event types, the indicators indicative of social disruption;
- and
- keywords and synonyms associated with the plurality of event types, the plurality of event types comprising at least one of emerging threats, biological events, civil unrest, cybersecurity events, socioeconomic events, events impacting food or water security, or infrastructure events;
- an information collection and processing subsystem that identifies and downloads publicly available documents relevant to the socially disruptive event by searching open source electronic media sources for the indicators associated with the event type of the socially disruptive event, the socially disruptive event comprising at least one of an emerging threat, a biological event involving humans, a biological event involving animals, a biological event involving plants, a political event, a socioeconomic event, an economic event, an industrial event, an infrastructure event, an environmental event, civil unrest, dislocation, riots, violence against property, violence against people, a cybersecurity event, events impacting food or water security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, improvised explosive devices, human trafficking, narcotics, public opinion about a political topic, public opinion about public policy, public opinion about religion, public opinion about entertainment, a natural disaster, natural disaster aftermath, natural resource exploitation, or military activity;
- a graphical user interface that provides functionality for a user to identify one or more of the stored synonyms and keywords;
- and
- an information analysis and reporting subsystem that:
- searches or filters the downloaded documents using the synonyms and keywords identified by the user;
- and
- generates and outputs event reports including information included in the downloaded documents.
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A computer-aided method for detecting and communicating information regarding a socially disruptive event having an event type, the method comprising:
- storing indicators associated with a plurality of event types, the indicators indicative of social disruption;
- storing keywords and synonyms associated with the plurality of event types, the plurality of event types comprising at least one of emerging threats, biological events, civil unrest, cybersecurity events, socioeconomic events, events impacting food or water security, or infrastructure events;
- identifying and downloading publicly available documents relevant to the socially disruptive event by searching open source electronic media sources for the indicators associated with the event type of the socially disruptive event, the socially disruptive event comprising at least one of an emerging threat, a biological event involving humans, a biological event involving animals, a biological event involving plants, a political event, a socioeconomic event, an economic event, an industrial event, an infrastructure event, an environmental event, civil unrest, dislocation, riots, violence against property, violence against people, a cybersecurity event, events impacting food or water security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, improvised explosive devices, human trafficking, narcotics, public opinion about a political topic, public opinion about public policy, public opinion about religion, public opinion about entertainment, a natural disaster, natural disaster aftermath, natural resource exploitation, or military activity;
- providing a user interface that provides functionality for a user to identify one or more of the stored synonyms and keywords;
- searching or filtering the downloaded documents using the synonyms and keywords identified by the user;
- and
- generating and outputting event reports including information included in the downloaded documents.
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A computer-aided system for detecting and communicating information regarding a socially disruptive event having an event type, the system comprising:
- non-transitory computer readable storage media that stores:
- indicators associated with a plurality of event types, the indicators indicative of social disruption;
- and
- a predefined list of subjects, a predefined list of objects, and a predefined list of acts specially crafted to characterize events of the event type;
- an information collection and processing subsystem that identifies and downloads publicly available documents relevant to the socially disruptive event by searching open source electronic media sources for the indicators associated with the event type of the socially disruptive event, the socially disruptive event comprising at least one of an emerging threat, a biological event involving humans, a biological event involving animals, a biological event involving plants, a political event, a socioeconomic event, an economic event, an industrial event, an infrastructure event, an environmental event, civil unrest, dislocation, riots, violence against property, violence against people, a cybersecurity event, events impacting food or water security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, improvised explosive devices, human trafficking, narcotics, public opinion about a political topic, public opinion about public policy, public opinion about religion, public opinion about entertainment, a natural disaster, natural disaster aftermath, natural resource exploitation, or military activity;
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- an information analysis and reporting subsystem that provides a graphical user interface that provides functionality for a user to:
- characterize an action described in each of the downloaded documents by selecting a subject from the predefined list of subjects, selecting an object from the predefined list of objects, and selecting an act being performed by the subject on the object from the predefined list of acts;
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- generate and output event reports characterizing the actions described in the downloaded documents.
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A computer-aided method for detecting and communicating information regarding a socially disruptive event having an event type, the method comprising:
- storing indicators associated with a plurality of event types, the indicators indicative of social disruption;
- storing a predefined list of subjects, a predefined list of objects, and a predefined list of acts specially crafted to characterize events of the event type;
- identifying and downloading publicly available documents relevant to the socially disruptive event by searching open source electronic media sources for the indicators associated with the event type of the socially disruptive event, the socially disruptive event comprising at least one of an emerging threat, a biological event involving humans, a biological event involving animals, a biological event involving plants, a political event, a socioeconomic event, an economic event, an industrial event, an infrastructure event, an environmental event, civil unrest, dislocation, riots, violence against property, violence against people, a cybersecurity event, events impacting food and water security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, improvised explosive devices, human trafficking, narcotics, public opinion about a political topic, public opinion about public policy, public opinion about religion, public opinion about entertainment, a natural disaster, natural disaster aftermath, natural resource exploitation, or military activity;
- providing a user interface that provides functionality for a user to:
- characterize an action in each of the downloaded documents by selecting a subject from a predefined list of subjects, selecting an object from a predefined list of objects, and selecting an act being performed by the subject on the object from a predefined list of acts, wherein the predefined list of subjects;
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- generate and output event reports characterizing the actions described in the downloaded documents.
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