Devices and methods for disaster-relief support
AssigneeBank of America Corporation
InventorsNathan Dent, James Dolphin, Richard L. Fitzgerald
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus according to the invention are directed towards providing a client support in the wake of a disaster impacting a locale. Support may include transporting support-means to the locale, authenticating identification of the client, interfacing with an entity administering an account for the client, and facilitating access by the client to the account. The methods and apparatus may also provide support of non-account-related disaster-relief efforts associated with the locale.
Claims22
One or more non-transitory computer readable media having code stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, facilitates a method of supporting a disaster-relief effort in a locale impacted by an event that impairs locale-infrastructure, said supporting provided by an entity in coordination with an agency with authority over the locale, the method comprising:
- activating an entity-associated mobile platform in the locale in response to the event, the platform equipped to provide secure services for banking, data-handling and communications;
- designating a service to be provided in the locale by the entity, the service designated in coordination with the agency, wherein, when the service is a banking service, the service comprises an offer of disbursement of funds, including providing cash-in-hand;
- receiving a request from a locale-associated client for he service;
- authenticating the client;
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- providing the service to the client through the platform.
An apparatus for supporting a disaster-relief effort in a locale impacted by an event that impairs locale-infrastructure, said supporting provided by an entity in coordination with an agency with authority over the locale, the apparatus comprising:
- an entity-associated mobile platform configured to be activated in the locale in response to the event, the platform equipped to provide secure services for banking, data-handing and communications;
- a logical processing device configured to designate a service to be provided in the locale by the entity through the platform, the service designated in coordination the platform providing an offer of disbursement of funds, including providing cash-in-hand;
- a receiver device configured to receive a request form a locale-associated client for the service;
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- a communication device configured, in conjunction with the receiver device and the logical processing device, to authenticate the client and to signal authorization to grant the client the service through the platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.