Systems and Methods for Forming and Operating an Ecosystem for a Conducted Electrical Weapon

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017337513-A1
Application number	US-201615380316-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 15, 2016
Priority date	May 23, 2016
Publication date	Nov 23, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A system that creates an environment (e.g., ecosystem) for using, transmitting, and storing data from a CEW and other equipment. The information from a CEW includes a log maintained by the CEW. The log may include information related to the operation, maintenance, software, and deployment units used by the CEW. The information may be used alone or in combination with other information received and stored by an evidence management system for managing inventory, generating use-of-force reports, incident reports, and/or providing information related to equipment, such as a CEW, to the supplier of the equipment. Sources of information provided to an evidence management system includes equipment suppliers, CEWs, other cooperating equipment, records management systems of an agency, a dispatch system of an agency, and third parties. A CEW or other equipment may also receive information for storing in the log.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processing circuit of a server, establish a machine performing a computer-implemented method for generating a use-of-force report regarding a use of one or more conducted electrical weapons (“CEWs”) at a location of an incident, the method comprising:
receiving a first information regarding one or more CEWs, the first information includes a respective electronic log from the one or more CEWs, each log includes information regarding one or more operations performed by the CEW including providing a current through one or more targets to impede locomotion of the targets;
receiving a second information regarding the incident, the second information provided electronically by at least one of a records management system and a dispatch system;
combining at least a portion of the second information with at least a portion of the first information to generate the use-of-force report, the portion of the first information includes the information regarding providing the current through the one or more targets; and
transmitting the use-of-force report.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein combining comprises:
searching the second information to determine at least one of the location of the incident and a time of the incident;
searching the first information to identify each CEW that provided a current proximate to at least one of the location of the incident and the time of the incident; and
extracting information from the first information related to the operations performed by the identified CEWs for inclusion in the use-of-force report.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein combining comprises:
identifying one or more fields for receiving information in a predefined electronic report;
determining the information requested in the one or more fields;
extracting at least some of the requested information from at least one of the first information and the second information;
inserting the extracted information into the appropriate fields.

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the second information comprises:
searching the first information to identify one or more agencies that control the CEWs proximate to the location of the incident; and
transmitting an electronic request to the identified one or more agencies to provide the second information.

5 . The method of claim 1 wherein the first information further includes information provided by an electronic device to supplement one or more of the electronic logs.

6 . The method of claim 1 wherein transmitting comprises:
searching the second information to identify one or more agencies that dispatched personnel to the location of the incident;
searching the first information to determine whether the identified agencies control any of the one or more CEWs that provided a current at the location of the incident; and
transmitting the use-of-force report to the identified agencies that control any one CEW used at the incident.

7 . The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the first information comprises:
searching the log of each of the one or more CEWs to identify the agency that controls the CEW; and
storing the first information in a data structure that relates the first information to the identified agency.

8 . A server for generating a use-of-force report regarding a use of one or more conducted electrical weapons (“CEWs”) at a location of an incident, the server comprising:
a processing circuit;
a memory; and
a communication circuit; wherein:
the communication circuit receives via a network a first information regarding one or more CEWs, the first information includes a respective electronic log from the one or more CEWs, each log includes information regarding one or more operations performed by the CEW including providing a current through one or more targets to impede locomotion of the targets;
the processing circuit stores the first information in the memory in a data structure that relates the first information to an agency that controls the one or more CEWs;
the communication circuit receives via a network a second information regarding the incident from the agency;
the processing circuit stores the second information in the memory in the data structure related to the agency;
the processing circuit searches the data structure related to the agency for information related to the incident and the provision of the current by the one or more targets; and
responsive to searching, the processing circuit generates the use-of-force report.

9 . The server of claim 8 wherein the processing circuit generates the user-of-force report by inserting information identified in the search into appropriate fields of a predefined electronic report.

10 . The server of claim 8 wherein the processing circuit further:
searches the data structure related to the agency to determine at least one of the location and the time of the incident; and
searches the data structure related to the agency to identify one or more CEWs that provided a current proximate to at least one of the location and time of the incident.

11 . The server of claim 8 wherein the processing circuit further searches the data structures related to one or more other agencies to identify one or more CEWs that provided a current proximate to at least one of the location and time of the incident.

12 . The server of claim 8 wherein the communication circuit further transmits the use-of-force report to the agency.

13 . The server of claim 8 wherein the first information includes:
information appended to one or more logs of the one or more CEWs; and
the appended information includes a location of use of the CEW to provide a current.

Assignees

• Taser Int Inc

Inventors

• Dimino Jr Joseph Charles
• Heroor Siddharth
• Gish Michael E
• Gagnon Reinhard J
• Michaels Teri Dawn

Classifications

• G06Q10/10 Primary

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• F42B35/00

  Testing or checking of ammunition {(apparatus for measuring the energy of projectiles G01L5/14)} · CPC title

• G06Q30/0633

  Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists (shipping orders G06Q10/083; order filling G06Q10/087) · CPC title

• G01M99/008

  by doing functionality tests · CPC title

• G06Q10/087

  Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders · CPC title