# US 10,503,347 B2 · System and method for detecting, collecting, analyzing, and communicating event-related information

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- Number: US 10,503,347 B2
- Document ID: US10503347B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/661,976
- Filed: 2017-07-27
- Published: 2017-11-09
- Granted: 2019-12-10
- Earliest claimed: 2008-02-25
- Assignees: Georgetown University
- Applicants: Georgetown University
- Inventors: Ahmed A. Humayun; Steven J. Silverstein; Gregory P. Zalasky; Kevin D. Jones
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10503347B2

## CPC

- G06F 3/0481: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
- G06F 16/904: Browsing; Visualisation therefor (for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957)
- G06F 16/9537: Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
- G06Q 10/063: Operations research, analysis or management
- G06Q 10/10: Office automation; Time management
- G06Q 10/1091: Recording time for administrative or management purposes
- G06Q 10/40: Business processes related to social networking or social networking services
- G16H 40/20: for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
- G16H 50/80: for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu
- G06F 3/005: {Input arrangements through a video camera}
- G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
- G06F 3/0484: for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
- Y02A 90/10: Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
- Y02A: TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

## 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.

## Claims

### Claim 1

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.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality to edit the keywords and synonyms associated with the plurality of event types.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the information analysis and reporting subsystem automatically ranks or clusters the information included in the downloaded documents using one or more machine learning models.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to rank or cluster the information included in the downloaded documents.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface is adapted to display an event stage table containing scale values for assigning a degree of severity to the socially disruptive event.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to identify a specific emerging threat from a predefined list of emerging threats.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to identify an event location from a predefined list of nations of interest.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to identify a date and/or time that the socially disruptive event took place.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the indicators indicative of social disruption comprise at least one of reports of human, animal, or plant disease, official acceptance or denial, official action, demand for medical services, reports of local perception of threat, business practice changes, compromise or collapse of integrity of infrastructure, temperature changes, perception changes, or suggestion that individuals or organizations have begun changing their daily routine activities.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein social disruption comprises alteration in the normal functioning of a social system that, under extreme conditions, can lead to the collapse of social infrastructure.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the publicly available documents include at least one of a hypertext markup language (HTML) document, an extensible markup language (XML) document, a portable document format (PDF) document, text, an image, an audio file, or a file created from a radio frequency signal intercepted through the air, sea, or a space platform.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the publicly available documents include at least one of words, numbers, indicia, quotes, excerpts, images, records, code, or scripts.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The system according to claim 1, wherein the open source electronic media sources are web servers publicly accessible via the Internet.

### Claim 14

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.

### Claim 15

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; and
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; and
generate and output event reports characterizing the actions described in the downloaded documents.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality to edit the predefined list of subjects, the predefined list of objects, or the predefined list of acts.

### Claim 17 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the information analysis and reporting subsystem automatically ranks or clusters information included in the downloaded documents using one or more machine learning models.

### Claim 18 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to rank or cluster information included in the downloaded documents.

### Claim 19 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface is adapted to display an event stage table containing scale values for assigning a degree of severity to the socially disruptive event.

### Claim 20 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to identify a specific emerging threat from a predefined list of emerging threats.

### Claim 21 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to identify an event location from a predefined list of nations of interest.

### Claim 22 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the graphical user interface further provides functionality for the user to identify a date and/or time that the socially disruptive event took place.

### Claim 23 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the indicators indicative of social disruption comprise at least one of reports of human, animal, or plant disease, official acceptance or denial, official action, demand for medical services, reports of local perception of threat, business practice changes, compromise or collapse of integrity of infrastructure, temperature changes, perception changes, or suggestion that individuals or organizations have begun changing their daily routine activities.

### Claim 24 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein social disruption comprises alteration in the normal functioning of a social system that, under extreme conditions, can lead to the collapse of social infrastructure.

### Claim 25 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the publicly available documents include at least one of a hypertext markup language (HTML) document, an extensible markup language (XML) document, a portable document format (PDF) document, text, an image, an audio file, or a file created from a radio frequency signal intercepted through the air, sea, or a space platform.

### Claim 26 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the publicly available documents include at least one of words, numbers, indicia, quotes, excerpts, images, records, code, or scripts.

### Claim 27 (depends on 15)

The system according to claim 15, wherein the open source electronic media sources are web servers publicly accessible via the Internet.

### Claim 28

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; and
generate and output event reports characterizing the actions described in the downloaded documents.