Area monitoring system and method of merging occurrence records
AssigneeGenetec Inc.
InventorsSean Lawlor, Jean-David Trepanier
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Abstract
An area monitoring system and a method of merging occurrence records in an area monitoring system whereby occurrences are monitored or recorded in external databases. The method includes receiving a first occurrence record, indicative of an event; on the basis of the applicable correlation rule, identifying a set of databases to be queried; generating a query for data according to a respective protocol; generating a correlated dataset of occurrence records from at least a subset of the set of occurrence records and the first occurrence record; and displaying to a user a visual representation of the correlated dataset of occurrence records.
Claims20
A method of merging occurrence records in an area monitoring system whereby events are monitored or recorded in external databases, the method comprising:
- receiving a first occurrence record, indicative of an event, including a geographical parameter, a chronological parameter and an occurrence record type, and identifying an applicable correlation rule in a correlation rule database based at least on the occurrence record type, wherein the geographical parameter, the chronological parameter and the occurrence record type are stored in the first occurrence record;
- on the basis of the applicable correlation rule, identifying a set of databases to be queried from a plurality of databases, each database of the plurality of databases comprising a plurality of occurrence records, each occurrence record of the set of databases being associated with a respective occurrence record type;
- for each database in the set of databases, generating a query for data according to a respective protocol, the query comprising at least a geographic constraint or a chronological constraint based on, respectively, the geographical parameter or the chronological parameter of the first occurrence record;
- receiving in response to the query a set of occurrence records, each occurrence record of the set of occurrence records originating from one of the databases in the set of databases, and having at least one geographical parameter or chronological parameter respecting the geographic constraint or chronological constraint, respectively, set forth in the query to its originating database;
- generating a correlated dataset of occurrence records from at least a subset of the set of occurrence records and the first occurrence record;
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- displaying to a user a visual representation of said correlated dataset of occurrence records.
An area monitoring system comprising a correlation engine for communicating with a set of databases and a store of correlation rules to provide a report output when occurrence records of said set of databases satisfy at least one of said correlation rules, the correlation engine comprising a processor and a processor-readable memory storing instructions to cause said processor to perform:
- receiving a first occurrence record, indicative of an event, including a geographical parameter, a chronological parameter and an occurrence record type, and identifying an applicable correlation rule in a correlation rule database based at least in part on the occurrence record type, wherein the geographical parameter, the chronological parameter and the occurrence record type are stored in the first occurrence record;
- on the basis of the applicable correlation rule, identifying a set of databases to be queried from a plurality of databases, each database of the plurality of databases comprising a plurality of occurrence records, each occurrence record of the set of databases being associated with a respective occurrence record type;
- for each database in the set of databases, generating a query for data according to a respective protocol, the query comprising at least a geographic constraint or chronological constraint based on, respectively, the geographical parameter or the chronological parameter of the first occurrence record;
- receiving in response to the query a set of occurrence records, each occurrence record of the set of occurrence records originating from one of the databases in the set of databases, and having at least a geographical parameter or chronological parameter respecting the geographic constraint or chronological constraint, respectively, set forth in the query to its originating database;
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- providing a report output comprising a correlated dataset of occurrence records from at least a subset of the set of occurrence records and the first occurrence record.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.