Real time automatic headcount system
OwnerRichard B. Mitchellinventor
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Abstract
A real time automatic headcount system is configured with a portable transmitter operated by a crisis coordinator and operable to output an alert signal which is received by a plurality of receivers which are coupled to respective persons associated with a crisis-event site. The receivers each generate an acknowledgement signal transmitted via a central processing unit to the transmitter. Upon receiving the acknowledgement signal, the central processing unit is operable to update a check list of all person associated with the crisis-event site, identify those who have not been accounted for and implement back up procedures for locating and accounting for the previously unaccounted for persons in real time.
Claims7
A processor-implemented method for conducting an automatic headcount during a crisis event, comprising:
- maintaining a checklist in a database of all persons, including employees, visitors, and contractors, expected to be present at a site at any given moment;
- checking in visitors and contractors as they enter the site and dynamically updating the checklist in the database to include the visitors and contractors;
- sending an alert signal via a network to all contact points for each person on the checklist, thereby informing each person associated with a contact point about the crisis event;
- receiving an acknowledgement signal in response to the alert signal from at least some of the contact points;
- updating a status of persons associated with the received acknowledgement signal on the checklist as accounted for;
- sending a message via the network to each person that has been accounted for on the checklist, wherein the message solicits information about at least one individual who has not been accounted for on the checklist;
- receiving a message from at least one person who has been accounted for on the checklist regarding the at least one individual;
- updating the status of the individual on the checklist;
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- displaying the checklist on an output device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.