Alert network and method for transmitting and propagating alerts
AssigneeKiwatch
InventorCedric Williamson
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Abstract
An alert network is described. The alert network has a plurality of individual monitoring systems, a plurality of user terminals respectively associated with the individual monitoring systems, alert transmitters in the monitoring systems, for transmitting primary alerts to selected user terminals and/or to other monitoring systems in accordance with parameterized transmission rules, alert receivers in said terminals, and alert propagators in the terminals, capable of selectively propagating received primary alerts to other terminals and or to other monitoring systems as secondary alerts, in accordance with parameterized propagation rules. A method for transmitting and propagating alerts according to corresponding parameters in such a network is also described.
Claims17
An alert network comprising;
- a plurality of individual monitoring systems,
- a plurality of user terminals respectively associated with the individual monitoring systems,
- alert transmitters in said monitoring systems, for transmitting primary alerts to selected user terminals and/or to other monitoring systems in accordance with parameterized transmission rules,
- alert receivers in said terminals, and
- alert propagators in said terminals, capable of selectively propagating received primary alerts to other terminals and or to other monitoring systems as secondary alerts, in accordance with parameterized propagation rules.
A method for handling alerts in an alert network comprising a plurality of individual monitoring systems, a plurality of user terminals respectively associated with the individual monitoring systems and an monitoring server, said monitoring systems and said user terminals being selectively connectable to each other within said alert network, the method comprising the following steps:
- transmitting a corresponding alert as a primary alert to a given set of user terminals in accordance with user-defined primary alert transmission parameters accessible by said monitoring system when an abnormal condition in a given monitoring system is detected, and
- propagating said primary alert as a secondary alert to another set of user terminals in accordance with user-defined primary alert propagation parameters accessible by said user terminals at each user terminal receiving such primary alert, in accordance with propagation parameters accessible by the user terminals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.