Collaborative response using capabilities-aware hive network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9420446-B2
Application number	US-201514595507-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2015
Priority date	Jan 13, 2015
Publication date	Aug 16, 2016
Grant date	Aug 16, 2016

Abstract

Various embodiments include approaches for coordinating collaborative response to an event using a capabilities-aware hive network. Some particular embodiments include a system having at least one computing device performing actions including: prompting a plurality of users to register with the capabilities-aware hive network, the prompting including requesting the plurality of users provide information about individual capabilities for response to the event; compiling the information from the plurality of users about individual capabilities for response to the event; obtaining data indicating occurrence of the event, and in response to obtaining the data indicating occurrence of the event, identifying and prioritizing individual user actions in response to the event based upon the information about the individual capabilities for response to the event; and providing user-specific instructions to the plurality of users to perform the individual user actions to respond to the event.

First claim

We claim:

1. A system comprising:
at least one computing device configured to coordinate a collaborative response to an event using a capabilities-aware hive network by performing actions including:
prompting a plurality of users to register with the capabilities-aware hive network using a mobile application corresponding with the capabilities-aware hive network, the prompting including requesting the plurality of users to provide information about individual capabilities for response to the event;
compiling the information from the plurality of users about individual capabilities for response to the event;
obtaining data indicating occurrence of the event, and in response to obtaining the data indicating occurrence of the event, identifying and prioritizing individual user actions in response to the event based upon the information about the individual capabilities for response to the event; and
providing user-specific instructions to the plurality of users to perform the individual user actions to respond to the event, wherein the user-specific instructions are sent to the plurality of users via the capabilities-aware hive network, and wherein the user-specific instructions are not common to other users in the plurality of users, wherein the providing of the user-specific instructions to the plurality of users includes sending instructions to each of the plurality of users to perform the individual user actions via the mobile application, wherein the instructions to each of the plurality of users are individually tailored based upon the individual capabilities of each user and characteristics of the event, wherein the mobile application further determines, based upon characteristics of the event, that a particular pathway between one of the users and a shelter is obstructed, and provides individualized instructions to the one of the users for travel to the shelter.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the event includes a natural disaster event.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the compiling includes categorizing the information from the plurality of users about individual capabilities of each user.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one computing device is configured to communicate with the plurality of users via a near-field communication (NFC) based protocol.

5. A computer program product comprising program code stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, which when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to coordinate a collaborative response to an event using a capabilities-aware hive network by performing actions including:
prompting a plurality of users to register with the capabilities-aware hive network using a mobile application corresponding with the capabilities-aware hive network, the prompting including requesting the plurality of users to provide information about individual capabilities for response to the event;
compiling the information from the plurality of users about individual capabilities for response to the event; obtaining data indicating occurrence of the event, and in response to obtaining the data indicating occurrence of the event, identifying and prioritizing individual user actions in response to the event based upon the information about the individual capabilities for response to the event; and
providing user-specific instructions to the plurality of users to perform the individual user actions to respond to the event, wherein the user-specific instructions are sent to the plurality of users via the capabilities-aware hive network, and wherein the user-specific instructions are not common to other users in the plurality of users, wherein the providing of the user-specific instructions to the plurality of users includes sending instructions to each of the plurality of users to perform the individual user actions via the mobile application, wherein the instructions to each of the plurality of users are individually tailored based upon the individual capabilities of each user and characteristics of the event, wherein the mobile application further determines, based upon characteristics of the event, that a particular pathway between one of the users and a shelter is obstructed, and provides individualized instructions to the one of the users for travel to the shelter.

6. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the event includes a natural disaster event.

7. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the compiling includes categorizing the information from the plurality of users about individual capabilities of each user.

8. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the program code, when executed on the at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to further communicate with the plurality of users via a near-field communication (NFC) based protocol.

9. A computer-implemented method of coordinating collaborative response to an event using a capabilities-aware hive network, the method performed on at least one computing device, the method comprising:
prompting a plurality of users to register with the capabilities-aware hive network using a mobile application corresponding with the capabilities-aware hive network, the prompting including requesting the plurality of users provide information about individual capabilities for response to the event;
compiling the information from the plurality of users about individual capabilities for response to the event;
obtaining data indicating occurrence of the event, and in response to obtaining the data indicating occurrence of the event, identifying and prioritizing individual user actions in response to the event based upon the information about the individual capabilities for response to the event; and
providing user-specific instructions to the plurality of users to perform the individual user actions to respond to the event, wherein the user-specific instructions are sent to the plurality of users via the capabilities-aware hive network, and wherein the user-specific instructions are not common to other users in the plurality of users, wherein the providing of the user-specific instructions to the plurality of users includes sending instructions to each of the plurality of users to perform the individual user actions via the mobile application, wherein the instructions to each of the plurality of users are individually tailored based upon the individual capabilities of each user and characteristics of the event, wherein the mobile application further determines, based upon characteristics of the event, that a particular pathway between one of the users and a shelter is obstructed, and provides individualized instructions to the one of the users for travel to the shelter.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the event includes a natural disaster event.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the compiling includes categorizing the information from the plurality of users about individual capabilities of each user.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , further comprising communicating with the plurality of users via a near-field communication (NFC) based protocol.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Brown Douglas S
• Hennessy Shawn D
• Kelley John F
• Seager Todd P

Classifications

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04L67/306 Primary

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04L67/1044

  Group management mechanisms  (management of multicast group membership H04L12/185; reconfiguring of node membership in a computing system to eliminate errors G06F11/1425) · CPC title

• H04W4/50

  Service provisioning or reconfiguring · CPC title

• H04W4/08

  User group management · CPC title