WO2008057769A2 - Procédé pour faciliter la sécurité civile privée sur la base d'un abonnement - Google Patents

Procédé pour faciliter la sécurité civile privée sur la base d'un abonnement Download PDF

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WO2008057769A2
WO2008057769A2 PCT/US2007/082404 US2007082404W WO2008057769A2 WO 2008057769 A2 WO2008057769 A2 WO 2008057769A2 US 2007082404 W US2007082404 W US 2007082404W WO 2008057769 A2 WO2008057769 A2 WO 2008057769A2
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  • This invention relates generally to providing survival-related services.
  • transportation infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railways, and so forth that facilitate the inexpensive and rapid movement of sometimes perishable goods from source to consumer;
  • communications infrastructure such as telephones, television, radio, and the Internet that facilitate the inexpensive and rapid sharing of news, advice, information, and entertainment;
  • Such persons are also largely without many options when faced with civilly- catastrophic conditions that create a concurrent need for shelter, evacuation, and/or rescue.
  • the only available shelter comprises a public facility such as a school, auditorium, or sports venue on the one hand or ad hoc accommodations obtained at a hotel or via a charity or one's own social network.
  • a public facility such as a school, auditorium, or sports venue on the one hand or ad hoc accommodations obtained at a hotel or via a charity or one's own social network.
  • such options may be adequate.
  • such options quickly prove inadequate or even dangerous in and of themselves.
  • FIG. 1 comprises a flow diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention
  • FIG. 2 comprises a schematic block diagram view as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 3 comprises a flow diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 4 comprises a flow diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 5 comprises a schematic block diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 6 comprises a schematic block diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention
  • FIG. 7 comprises a schematic block diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention
  • FIG. 8 comprises a schematic block diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 9 comprises a schematic block diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 10 comprises a flow diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 11 comprises a top plan block diagram view as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • FIG. 12 comprises a flow diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
  • a plurality of private civil security resources are provided.
  • These private civil security resources comprise, at least in part, civil security provisions, civil security facilities, and civil security services.
  • consideration-based private civil security subscriptions are accepted from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to at least one life-sustaining or civil security resource. That resource is then maintained pending a need to permit subscription-based access to the resource in the event of a catastrophic event.
  • Authorized beneficiaries are then provided with consideration-based access to this plurality of private civil security resources.
  • the private civil security provisions can comprise various life-sustaining resources as pertain to various categories of life's necessities, including, for example, breathable air, water, food, and protective clothing.
  • the nature of the subscribed-to resource can vary with the needs or requirements of a given application setting but may comprise one or more of a consumable necessity of human life, a non-consumable necessity of human life, shelter, transportation to effect the above-mentioned access, and/or rescue, to note but a few useful examples.
  • Deployable shelters can also be included if desired.
  • non- civil security resources such as, but not limited to, luxury items
  • the civil security facilities can comprise various facilities as have application with respect to protecting such authorized beneficiaries from the effects (including the aftermath, if any) of a civilly-catastrophic event and other dangerous or unpleasant environmental or external influences and forces.
  • the facilities can include, for example, such things as civil security shelters (including both short term and longer term facilities), transportation rally points, trans-shipment facilities and/or distribution facilities for civil security provisions, medical services facilities, training facilities, and so forth.
  • the civil security services can similarly comprise any of a wide variety of services as have application with respect to protecting such authorized beneficiaries.
  • Exemplary services include, but are not limited to, civil security information services (including information that is both generally and specifically appropriate for individual ones of the authorized beneficiaries), transportations services, rescue services, and so forth.
  • a corresponding process 100 provides a plurality of private civil security resources.
  • "private” will be understood to refer to the opposite of public ownership or control (as exemplified by governmental or ecclesiastical ownership or control) but can include such things as ownership or control via publicly traded ownership (via, for example, publicly traded stock or the like), ownership or control via a not-for-profit entity, or the like.
  • the plurality of private civil security resources can vary to some degree with respect to category and kind of resource.
  • such resources will comprise, at least in part, civil security provisions, civil security facilities, and civil security services.
  • civil security provisions and civil security facilities are physical components rather than virtual components or products of the intellect.
  • the civil security provisions will typically comprise physical support and/or protection of one kind of another.
  • the civil security facilities will also typically comprise physical assets such as, but not limited to, physical shelters that provide real, substantive physical protection from physical threats to human life. Additional details in this regard are provided below.
  • the civil security services can comprise either physical real world services or virtual-content services.
  • These civil security provisions can comprise, for example, a plurality of life- sustaining resources as pertain to a plurality of differing categories of life's necessities.
  • examples in this regard include, but are not limited to, such elemental staples as water 201 (which can comprise water in a pure or impure state and/or other water-based palatable fluids), food 202 (which can comprise a wide variety of raw to highly processed food, nutritional supplements, and so forth, and protective clothing 203 (where "protective” will be understood to refer to protection against one or more potentially hazardous environmental influences such as temperature extremes, precipitation, high velocity winds, and the like but not to matters of fashion, social comment, or the like).
  • These civil security provisions 200 can further optionally include such components as breathable air 204 (which may comprise, for example, a fresh air supply, an oxygen supply (including but not limited to oxygen generators such as, but not limited to, chemical oxygen generators that often produce oxygen as part of a corresponding exothermic reaction) that can serve as a source of oxygen to mix with other atmospheric components, and/or personal or area air filters that serve to remove harmful airborne contaminants from the air prior to being inhaled by an authorized beneficiary), deployable shelters 205 (where "deployable” will be understood as referring to portable shelters such as tents, canopies, inflatable structures, and the like), and other items 206 as may be appropriate to meet the needs of a given application setting.
  • breathable air 204 which may comprise, for example, a fresh air supply, an oxygen supply (including but not limited to oxygen generators such as, but not limited to, chemical oxygen generators that often produce oxygen as part of a corresponding exothermic reaction) that can serve as a source of oxygen to mix with other atmospheric components,
  • these civil security provisions can be so provided in an aggregated form. Such might be the case, for example, when accumulating such material at a warehouse or the like.
  • These teachings will also accommodate, however, forming such civil security provisions into corresponding units of civil security provisions.
  • one such unit of civil security provisions as intended, for example, for a single authorized beneficiary might comprise, at least in part, consumable fluids, foods, medical supplies, personal hygiene supplies, and environmental threat abatement supplies (such as, for example, breathing masks, hazardous materials handling garb, and the like).
  • Such a unit of civil security provisions might comprise, for example, a short term unit that comprises a quantity and variety of civil security supplies that are adequate to sustain life for that one authorized beneficiary for, say, at least about thirty days but no more than, say, about one year.
  • adequacy of any food contents can be determined as a function of a particular target caloric intake per person on a per day basis.
  • the adequacy of any consumable fluid contents could be determined as a function of a particular target quantity intake per person on a per day basis.
  • a system may be used in which an anti-microbial lid or cover may be placed over a food product, with the lid having an ultraviolet (UV) light system operating at 254 nm.
  • the lid or cover may be placed on food stuffs that have been prepared or opened, with the low-energy UV light from the lid reducing microbial contamination of the food.
  • UV ultraviolet
  • Such a system used in conjunction with existing storage techniques, such as preservatives and low temperature storage, can allow for longer food shelf life.
  • these teachings provide generally for accepting 301 consideration-based private civil security subscriptions from subscribers with respect to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to at least one life-sustaining resource or civil security resource (or, if desired, to a plurality of different kinds and/or categories of life-sustaining resources) such as, but not limited to, resources pertaining to hydration, nourishment, shelter, environmentally borne threat abatement (such as protection from chemical, biological, and/or radioactive threats and the like), transportation, and/or rescue services.
  • This life-sustaining resource can comprise, for example, a consumable necessity of human life (i.e., a necessity such as nourishment that tends to be reduced in supply as it is consumed) and/or a non-consumable necessity of human life (i.e., a necessity such as shelter that is not necessarily reduced in supply as it is applied or used).
  • a consumable necessity of human life i.e., a necessity such as nourishment that tends to be reduced in supply as it is consumed
  • a non-consumable necessity of human life i.e., a necessity such as shelter that is not necessarily reduced in supply as it is applied or used.
  • This right of access can pertain, if desired, to a predetermined quantity of the life- sustaining resource.
  • a given subscription can relate to providing access to a one year's supply of the at least one life-sustaining resource for a given individual, number of individuals, or the like.
  • these subscriptions may be accepted by, for example, a for- profit business.
  • a not-for-profit business such as a membership-based entity
  • subscriptions may be accepted by, for example, a for- profit business.
  • a not-for-profit business such as a membership-based entity
  • the term “subscription” shall be understood to refer to and encompass a variety of legal mechanisms.
  • subscription mechanisms such as: time-limited rights of access (as where a subscription provides access rights for a specific period of time, such as one year, in exchange for a corresponding series of payments); event-limited rights of access (as where a subscription provides access rights during the life of a given subscriber based upon an up-front payment in full and where those access rights terminate upon the death of the subscriber or where, for example, a company purchases a subscription for a key employee and those corresponding rights of access terminate when and if that key employee leaves the employment of that company); inheritable rights of access (as may occur when the subscription, by its own terms and conditions, provides a right of access that extends past the death of a named subscription beneficiary and further allows for testate and/or intestate transfer to an heir); rights of access predicated upon a series of periodic payments (as where a subscription provides access rights during, for example, predetermined periods of time on a periodic basis as where a subscriber offers month-by-month payments
  • a plurality of differentiated subscription opportunities can be offered in this regard.
  • This plurality of differentiated subscription opportunities can correspond, for example, to providing access to differing selections and/or quantities of the civil security resources or life-sustaining resource supplies.
  • such subscription opportunities can differ from one another at least with respect to cost.
  • This provides subscriber choice with respect to selecting a particular subscription that best meets their specific needs and/or budget limitations. For example, one subscription can provide for accessing life-sustaining resources that, though nutritionally viable, are economically selected while another subscription might provide for life-sustaining resources that are more costly and in turn reflect, for example, a wider variety of choices within a given category of resource.
  • such access can be provided at the whim and convenience of the authorized beneficiaries. If desired, however, such access can be further conditioned in appropriate ways. For example, for many purposes and certainly as pertains to many of the civil security resources it may be appropriate to ordinarily limit such access to situations where such access is triggered, at least in part, by a civilly-catastrophic event having occurred or being likely imminent.
  • Such access may be predicated, if desired, upon a requirement that the civilly-catastrophic event be one that persists in substantial form for more than a predetermined period of time (such as one hour, one day, one week, and so forth) or that causes at least a predetermined amount or degree of infrastructure impairment or other measurable impact of choice (such as a particular level or degree of harm, interference, or negative impact upon a given minimum number of people).
  • a predetermined period of time such as one hour, one day, one week, and so forth
  • measurable impact of choice such as a particular level or degree of harm, interference, or negative impact upon a given minimum number of people.
  • such access may be predicated, if desired, upon a requirement of a particular level of objectivity or subjectively ascertained likelihood that a particular category or kind of civilly- catastrophic event will occur within a particular period of time.
  • civilly-catastrophic event will be understood to refer to an event that substantially and materially disrupts a society's local, regional, and/or national infrastructure and ability to provide in ordinary course for the at least one life-sustaining resource.
  • a civilly-catastrophic event can include both a precipitating event (which may occur over a relatively compressed period of time or which may draw out over an extended period of time) as well as the resultant aftermath of consequences wherein the precipitating event and/or the resultant aftermath include both the cause of the infrastructure interruption as well as the continuation (or worsening) of that interruption.
  • a civilly-catastrophic event can be occasioned by any of a wide variety of natural and/or non-naturally-caused disasters.
  • natural disasters that are potentially capable of initiating a civilly-catastrophic event include, but are not limited to, extreme weather-related events (such as hurricanes, tsunamis, extreme droughts, widespread or unfortunately-targeted tornadoes, extreme hail or rain, and the like, flooding, and so forth), extreme geological events (such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, and so forth), extreme space-based events (such as collisions with comets, large asteroids, and so forth, extreme solar flares, and the like), extreme environmental events (such as widespread uncontrolled fire or the like), and global or regional pandemics, to note but a few.
  • extreme weather-related events such as hurricanes, tsunamis, extreme droughts, widespread or unfortunately-targeted tornadoes, extreme hail or rain, and the like, flooding, and so forth
  • extreme geological events such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, and so forth
  • non-naturally-caused disasters capable of initiating a civilly- catastrophic event include both unintended events as well as intentional acts of aggression such as war, terrorism, madness or the like.
  • Examples of non-naturally-caused disasters capable of such potential scale include, but are not limited to, nuclear-related events (including uncontrolled fission or fusion releases, radiation exposure, and so forth), acts of war, the release of deadly or otherwise disruptive biological or chemical agents or creations, exposure to harmful mutagenic influence, and so forth.
  • conditional access can be absolute (as when a given individual may be granted or denied any access to any of the civil security resources) or may be relative (as when a given individual is granted or denied access to certain of the civil security resources while being allowed access to certain other of the civil security resources).
  • a given individual may habitually and consistently exhibit highly anti-social behaviors; in such a case, the provider of such civil security resources may be willing to provide such a person with civil security provisions but may be reluctant to permit this person to have access to a long term shelter where a certain amount of social buoyancy and ability to compromise with others may be important to the long term ability of that facility to successfully protect its inhabitants.
  • a very wide variety of criteria can be potentially considered for such purposes.
  • a few illustrative examples would include, but are not limited to, an authorized beneficiary's qualifications (based upon their experiences, aptitude testing, physical condition and capabilities, or the like), measured intelligence (based upon, for example, a traditional intelligence quotient (IQ test or the like), psychological test results, behavioral rest results, behavioral test results, race, nationality citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender, age, health, political beliefs and/or agenda, educational background, professional title, financial backing, athletic ability, mechanical ability, skills, and/or relationship to a third party entity with whom reciprocal relations regarding the provisions/facilities/services mutually agree to extend civilly-catastrophic event-based reciprocal access to one another's authorized beneficiaries).
  • IQ test traditional intelligence quotient
  • a given subscription may also provide for similar access to at least one non-civil security resource or non-necessity 302 (that is, an item or service that is not, strictly speaking, necessary to sustain human life on an elemental basis).
  • this process 300 will then also maintain 303 the additional resource and permit access 305 to these non-civil security resources as well.
  • An illustrative listing of representative non-necessities or non-civil security resources comprises, but is certainly not limited to: a luxury consumable (such as, for example, alcoholic beverages, foods that provide an experience beyond simple survival, and so forth); a luxury non-consumable; clothing; a food preparation tool; a personal communication device; a personal hygiene item; non-human nourishment (such as dog food, cat food, and so forth); barter medium (such as bulk or coined precious metals including but not limited to gold, silver, and so forth); an electrical energy source (including but not limited to alternating current power sources, direct current power sources, fuel-consumptive power sources, renewable fuel source power sources, and so forth); an entertainment apparatus (such as game stations, musical instruments, reading material, and so forth); an educational tool (including but not limited to instructional texts, reference works, laboratory and demonstrative equipment, and so forth); physical conditioning, exercise, and maintenance training and equipment; repair and maintenance tools and services; crafts supplies and training; and/or sports equipment and facilities; to note but
  • This process 300 then provides for maintaining 303 the resource(s) pending a need to permit subscription-based access to the resource(s) in response to the occurrence of a catastrophic event.
  • This can comprise maintaining the resource on behalf of the subscriber and/or on behalf of another authorized beneficiary.
  • the specifics of such maintenance will of course vary with respect to the nature of the resource or resources being maintained.
  • maintaining 303 the resource can comprise acquiring 401 the at least one predetermined consumable necessity of human life to thereby provide acquired necessities and then storing 402 those acquired necessities to thereby provide stored necessities that are held on behalf of the corresponding authorized beneficiaries pending a need to access those stored necessities in the event of a triggering civilly-catastrophic event.
  • acquisition and storing steps can further comprise, if desired, acquiring and storing non-consumable necessities of human life and/or consumable or non-consumable non-necessities of human life.
  • Acquisition 401 of such items can be achieved through any of a variety of means.
  • the items may be procured on the open market.
  • the items may be purchased or otherwise acquired from third parties via private negotiations.
  • the entity that provides and accepts these subscriptions may itself create (through manufacturing, farming, or the like) the items of interest.
  • the acquired item may comprise a staple of ordinary commerce.
  • the acquired item may be unique and/or proprietary to the acquiring/storing entity.
  • the civil security facilities will typically comprise physical assets that tend, categorically, to comprise part of a private civil security infrastructure.
  • Such civil security facilities will typically comprise physical assets that tend, categorically, to comprise part of a private civil security infrastructure.
  • Such civil security facilities can, therefore comprise, for example: one or more civil security shelters; one or more rally points (at which authorized beneficiaries can gather in response to a civilly-catastrophic event in order to receive certain civil security services such as transportation to another civil security facility such as a shelter or at least to a location that is away from a location that presently (or imminently) lacks civil security (due, for example, to a civilly-catastrophic event, its aftermath, or both)); a location where at least some of the authorized beneficiary's civil security provisions are available (such as a metropolitan, local, regional, and/or national distribution facility); a trans-shipment facility for at least some of the civil security provisions (where, for example, dis-aggregate provisions are brought and then parsed and aggregated into corresponding units of provisions destined for particular recipient authorized beneficiaries); a medical services facility; and so forth, to note but a few relevant examples in this regard.
  • a temporary civil security shelter will be understood to comprise a shelter that is configured and arranged to adequately shelter and sustain human life for a relatively short period of time.
  • a temporary shelter might prove sufficient in this regard for, say, no more than about ten inhabitants for no more than about one week, ten days, 15 days, and the like.
  • a temporary shelter such as this is designed and intended to only serve as a temporary refuge from the effects of a civilly- catastrophic event. Should longer term accommodations be necessary in a given instance, the inhabitants of such a temporary shelter will often be better served to move to a longer term civil security shelter.
  • a long term civil security shelter will be understood to comprise a shelter that is configured and arranged to adequately shelter and sustain human life for a relatively longer period of time.
  • a temporary shelter might prove sufficient in this regard for, say, no more than about 100 inhabitants for up to about three months, six months, one years, or the like. (Again, such numeric examples serve an illustrative, rather than limiting, purpose only.)
  • a shelter of this type will typically be characterized not only by an ability to protect its inhabitants against the rigors of the local environment and to contain a relatively large and varied supply of provisions, but by an ability to exist and operate in a fully or at least substantially independent manner. This can relate in particular to an ability to create and/or otherwise replace its consumable provisions (by, for example, growing food, creating power, and so forth).
  • Such shelters may differ from one other in other ways.
  • such shelters may differ with respect to the non-survival related amenities that are provided. These differences can relate to categories of amenities (such as educational facilities, workshop facilities, food preparation facilities, communication facilities, entertainment and/or recreation facilities, or the like) and/or to a relative level of perception of quality, comfort, convenience, or the like.
  • the aforementioned civil security services can comprise any of a relatively wide variety of offerings. Some examples include, but are certainly not limited to: transportation services (where such transportation services are not ordinary mass or individual transit services but instead represent, for example, services that are designed, scheduled, and deployed to effect transportation of dispossessed persons away from a location that substantially lacks civil security (such as an area afflicted by a civilly-catastrophic event); civil security information (including both civil security information that is generally appropriate for a large number (or all) of the authorized beneficiaries (such as civil security preparedness training or the like) as well as information that is specifically appropriate for individual ones of the authorized beneficiaries (such as personal contingency instructions that are formed and provided to guide specific authorized beneficiaries during a time of need regarding particular actions and behaviors that such specific individuals should take and observe when responding to a civilly-catastrophic event as well as consulting services that assist such individuals with respect to fortifying their relative positions and/or otherwise better protecting themselves against the effects of various civilly-catastrophic events); communications services, including long distance
  • the vehicles used for this purpose can comprise, for example, a bus, van, or similar terrestrial platform. Other vehicles, such as helicopters, hovercraft, boats, and so forth may also be employed where appropriate. In addition, some vehicles may operate to provide both transportation and shelter. The right of a given individual to gain passage on such a vehicle can be arranged in advance of such a civilly-catastrophic event and/or at a specific time of need.
  • aerial and/or land-based vehicles may be provisioned with rapid detection methods that can detect chemical, biological, and/or radiological contaminates in the air.
  • the vehicles may be provisioned with a variety of sensors and/or other devices to provide real-time air quality assessment.
  • the data from the vehicles will assist the provider in obtaining the most up-to-date air quality information, with the vehicles detecting increasing levels of contaminates to alert the provider of a possible disaster before such an event is known to the public.
  • This air quality assessment can assist the provider in anticipating an event and the damage caused by the event and then evaluating the best way to logistically respond to the event.
  • the civil security provider can then decide, for example, the best mode of evacuation and/or transport for the type of disaster and can allocate the appropriate resources to carry out the rescue.
  • the fleets of aerial and/or land-based vehicles may follow predetermined routes in predetermined areas on a daily basis. If desired, the vehicles may particularly focus on urban and major metropolitan areas and the air-quality of those regions.
  • a civilly catastrophic event may involve the release into the environment of deadly or otherwise disruptive biological or chemical agent or other type of toxic cloud or air mass.
  • the toxic cloud or air mass can be physically manipulated and/or moved by placing a large jet engine, or other type of turbojet or turbofan for example, in existing subway or sewer tunnels.
  • the engines can be activated to push and/or pull large amounts of air, including the toxic air, to move the contaminated air into an unpopulated or less populated area.
  • the jet engines serve to pump or draw large volumes of air at high velocities into the atmosphere, which can facilitate the movement of a toxic airborne event away from a densely populated area.
  • the jet engines can be placed in the populated area and then used to push a toxic air mass away from the area, or the jet engines may be placed away from the populated area and used to pull the toxic air mass toward the jet engine and into a less populated area.
  • rescue services will be rendered in the event of a civilly-catastrophic event.
  • rescue personnel quickly locating the authorized beneficiary and physically accessing that authorized beneficiary to effect their removal to another location.
  • such a service can be supplemented to include allowing such an authorized beneficiary to identify another party to be rescued and/or to be located and accompanied as a precautionary or protective measure.
  • authorized beneficiaries of a subscription-based private civil defense program can participate in the program by providing threat assessment information to, for example, a central information collection function.
  • a central information collection function can include, for example, such individuals making regular reports (via telephone, email, a website, a wireless communications device, and so forth) regarding their observations in this regard.
  • one or more threat-detection sensors can be deployed at the individual's property (for example, their homes, businesses, vehicles, their clothing, and so forth).
  • Such sensors can be, if desired, coupled to a communication network of choice that forwards the gathered information (using a real time, near real time, or batch protocol of choice) to the central information collection function.
  • such activities can be supplemented with training for the participating individuals regarding how these observations and so forth are to be carried out.
  • this process will readily accommodate providing such civil security provisions 200, civil security facilities 502, and civil security services 503 by a single provider 501.
  • a provider 501 can be integrally involved with designing, providing, maintaining, and offering such civil security resources or can comprise an aggregator of such resources, in whole or in part, as are provided by other sources.
  • the civil security provisions 200 can be provided by a first provider 601
  • the civil security facilities 502 can be provided by a second provider 602
  • the civil security services 503 can be provided by a third provider 603 wherein the first, second, and third providers comprise separate entities (as when, for example, these providers comprise separate legal entities having no co-ownership or common points of control).
  • these separate providers can meet the needs of this step by acting in an aggregated manner 604 (directly or indirectly) with one another.
  • a single provider 703 can provide the civil security facilities 502 and the civil security services 503 while the civil security provisions are provided by a plurality of civil security provisions providers represented here by a first civil security provisions provider 701 through an Nth civil security provisions provider 702 (where "N" will be understood to comprise an integer greater than one).
  • N will be understood to comprise an integer greater than one.
  • Persons skilled in these arts will understand and appreciate that numerous permutations and combinations of these elements as well as other possibilities are available. Such alternatives are well within the scope of these teachings and are rightly considered to comprise a part of this invention.
  • a private civil security provider will encounter particular difficulties not faced by providers of other, more traditional, products and services.
  • a valuation system may be offered that provides for valuating the goods and services in an authorized beneficiary's possession and/or subscription.
  • Much like currency, world events can affect the value of an authorized beneficiary's subscribed-to goods and benefits.
  • an authorized beneficiary can value the goods and/or services they have purchased from a civil-security provider. The provider can hold the goods and/or services in much the same way a bank holds currency for an individual.
  • the provider may protect the staff and assist them in surviving an event and then continue to protect the staff after the event so that they may be supported for an extended period of time and continue to operate the facility.
  • the provider may also provide or deliver the necessary processing equipment to process the raw ingredients to a form that is suitable for consumption by authorized beneficiaries and/or the general public.
  • an independent civil security organization may audit a company with respect to their civil security preparedness and best practices and then issue a rating or ranking to reflect the company's level of preparedness.
  • the ranking/rating would be based on a thorough examination and assessment of the policies, procedures, resources, staff, geographic locations and facilities, and so forth that have been put in place within the company to ensure the safety and security of a company's work force and key assets during a catastrophic event.
  • the organization conducting the audit and issuing the ranking may focus, for example, on the risk profile of a company and whether the company has implemented risk and preparedness activities.
  • the evaluation may also be based on geographic factors, such as whether a company is too geographically specific, is located in a high risk location, and/or whether the company has prepared for the risks and repercussions of relevant catastrophic events.
  • the organization may further identify and quantify that total cost of risk and compliance.
  • the organization may also look at whether the company engages in continuous monitoring, reporting, and/or benchmarking of civil security practices.
  • the organization can evaluate the company to issue the ranking, and can also follow up with the company to assist them in developing preparedness procedures and resources to thereby increase their rating.
  • the organization could develop a risk model in evaluating the company, which takes into account possible influential criteria and may analyze, for example, historical data, location, and existing best practices to determine the preparedness of the company.
  • the organization may then work with the existing infrastructures of the company to increase their preparedness.
  • the high rating demonstrates to the public that the company has been audited and/or trained by an organization to conform to preparedness standards, thereby increasing consumer confidence in the company's financial security during such an event.
  • a high ratings score demonstrates to vendors, customers, suppliers, and so forth that the company is more reliable, thereby leading to improved commercial relationships.
  • a high score may also result in decreased insurance costs and other business costs because the company may be perceived as a well-managed and better-prepared company.
  • the score issued by the organization can be indicative of the general risk profile of a company.
  • the ranking of the company may be relevant to many entities dealing with the corporation. For example, a current or prospective investor may look at the ranking to evaluate the investment risk profile of the company and whether the company is at risk for economic collapse during an event due to a high risk of loss of facilities or other compromised business performance. Customers and suppliers may also look to the ranking to determine whether the company can sustain business continuity during or after an event and can continue to provide services or products. For example, if a company has a facility located in an area that has a high risk of disaster, there is a greater risk that any service provided by the company will be disrupted.
  • an insurance company may require a minimum ranking before issuing certain types of insurance to a company, or may offer discounts or increase rates based on a company's preparedness score.
  • such a rating system could also be used to rank and score individuals and families based on their daily practices. Individuals and families that are committed to providing a safe environment for themselves have an increased likelihood of surviving a civilly-catastrophic event, and this can be reflected in a high ranking. An individual may have several incentives for obtaining such a ranking, such as, for example, as a prerequisite to obtaining certain types of insurance or to obtain a discount on insurance.
  • a predictive scoring model could be used by the organization to enable the organization to detect those companies that may be at risk of corporate failure in the event of a civilly-catastrophic event.
  • the rating analysis could be divided into three groups, such as, for example, companies with greater than $100 million in revenue, companies with less than SlOO million in revenue, and individuals and families. Analyzing each of these groups separately may be helpful because each of these groups generally have different characteristics and risk profiles.
  • the groups may be further broken down by industry, such as, for example, service, manufacturing, sports, entertainment, and so forth.
  • holographic technology may be used as self-defense or defense in a civil security context.
  • a holographic image could be projected over or in front of a facility to disguise the facility and mislead people into thinking that something other than a facility is in front of them.
  • a holographic image of a facility could be projected over a non-facility to mislead someone looking at the non- facility into thinking that they have located a facility.
  • a holographic image could be used to make it appear as though like security, armed forces, or other defensive unit, for example, was patrolling, protecting and/or securing a facility to discourage someone from accessing the facility or otherwise intimidate an individual or group.
  • Holographic imagery may have many other applications in a civil security context to disguise, camouflage, intimidate, and/or mislead those looking at the images. For example, the same application could also be used to disguise units of provisions, training facilities, transport and rescue vehicles, and so froth.
  • Holographic images have a plurality of other uses and applications in a civil security context. For example, holographic illustrations may be used as maps, navigational data, and/or directional guidance for air and land travel and other rescue and evacuation operations. Holographic images can also be used as seals on certified civil security documents and/or goods, for example, to reduce forgery attempts. Holographic images may also be used as three dimensional simulations or models for design, training, and other purposes.
  • this process 100 will also optionally provide for the provision 102 of non-civil security resources.
  • non-civil security resources comprise supplies and items that are not, strictly speaking, necessary to ensure human survival and hence may be viewed as luxuries.
  • Such items can quite literally span the full gamut of available offerings and can include both unique items (such as original works of art) and more commonly available offerings (such as jewelry, pleasure reading materials, audio playback devices, and so forth). Again, differentiation can exist with respect to actual or perceived levels of quality as pertain to such items if desired.
  • These steps of providing such civil security resources can further comprise maintaining such resources.
  • This can comprise, for example, maintaining the freshness and usability of civil security provisions (by replacing outdated or soon-to-be outdated supplies), replacing an existing resource with a better substitute that becomes available, maintaining present and/or imminent usability of a civil security shelter or transport vehicle, updating civil security-related information to reflect current data and intelligence, vetting and revetting personnel, and so forth.
  • Such maintenance can be provided, in whole or in part, by the provider of such civil security resources or can be outsourced if desired.
  • This process 100 then provides for providing 103 authorized beneficiaries with consideration-based access to the plurality of private civil security resources.
  • authorized beneficiaries can be identified. For example, by one approach, such authorized beneficiaries can attain this status as per the terms and conditions of a consideration-based private civil security benefits subscription as mentioned above with respect to FIG. 3.
  • a given subscription can provide such status for a stipulated one-year period of time for one or more authorized beneficiaries as correspond to that subscription.
  • the maintenance of the resource 203 may include storing the acquired necessities 402.
  • storage 402 occurs through use of one or more storage facilities 800, illustrated in FIG. 8, which are owned or controlled by the subscription accepting entity.
  • Any suitable storage facility may be used for this purpose with examples comprising (but not being limited to) above ground man-made shelters, below ground or below water facilities (including purposefully excavated facilities, natural caverns, and so forth), and water borne facilities (such as barges and the like).
  • Each such storage facility 800 will likely serve to store the resources as correspond to a plurality of authorized beneficiaries. By one approach such resources are stored in the aggregate.
  • each such bundle 801 can comprise a one year supply of all acquired items for a single adult authorized beneficiary.
  • a bundle 301 could comprise a one year supply of all acquired items as are intended for a family of four authorized beneficiaries.
  • a single authorized beneficiary may have a first bundle comprised of staple items that are acquired and stored for all beneficiaries and a second bundle comprised of custom items that are specifically and uniquely acquired for this particular beneficiary or class of beneficiaries (such as beneficiaries who all share a common dietary ailment or condition, sensitivity, medical condition, preference, or the like).
  • the bundle 801 itself can be realized via any of a wide variety of encapsulating or restraining mechanisms.
  • a tarp and tie-downs can be used to segregate the goods and form the described bundle.
  • discrete storage cabinets formed of wood, metal, plastic, canvas, or other material of choice could be employed for this purpose. Shrink wrap materials could also be employed in this regard.
  • these bundles 801 can be individually palletized (i.e., each placed upon and optionally secured to a pallet 802). Palletization, in turn, will permit ready and efficient movement of such bundles 801 to, about, or from a given storage facility 800 and/or delivery of such a bundle to an authorized beneficiary when such delivery comprises the desired form of granting access to such resources.
  • a first storage facility 901 may contain 1,000 such storage units while a second storage facility 902 may contain an additional 1,000 such storage units.
  • a first storage facility 901 may contain 1,000 such storage units while a second storage facility 902 may contain an additional 1,000 such storage units.
  • these teachings provide for offering access to civil defense benefits via a subscription-based process.
  • This can include, as noted, providing access to various and sundry survival supplies in response to a civilly-catastrophic event having occurred.
  • a given unit of survival supplies for such a subscription might be expected to comprise sufficient supplies to sustain the corresponding group of authorized beneficiaries for a given corresponding period of time (such as, for example, one week, three months, one year, and so forth).
  • an authorized beneficiary's access to a unit would be limited until certain codes or keys are issued by the civil security provider to allow for access to the unit. For example, the unit would be delivered to the authorized beneficiary's property and properly sealed.
  • the civil security provider When a disaster occurs, the civil security provider will issue a code to allow an authorized beneficiary to access the unit. This code could be used in addition to or as an alternative to a code entered by the authorized beneficiary to gain access to the unit. By controlling when the authorized beneficiary may access the unit, the civil security provider can increase their ability to monitor and assure the quality control of the unit and the integrity of the supplies and provisions included in the unit. Such a system also ensures that the provider is able to control the rotation, inventory, amount, and so forth of the supplies in the unit. By one approach, the provider can issue a particular access code based on the type of unit that the authorized beneficiary should be accessing at that time.
  • the provider may want the authorized beneficiary to first access a short- term survival unit, such as a 10 day survival pack, so the provider will issue the code to allow the authorized beneficiary to access such a unit. Then, for example, on the tenth day of the ten day pack, the provider may issue the code for the authorized beneficiary to access another unit, such as a long term or extended supply unit.
  • a short- term survival unit such as a 10 day survival pack
  • a unit of provisions may include a compact solar energy system attachment for breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen for small scale hydrogen production.
  • the end use of the hydrogen may include, for example, direct combustion in heat engines or as fuel in proton exchange membrane fuel cells.
  • a common method of hydrogen production is electrolysis, which decomposes water molecules into its components (hydrogen and oxygen) by passing a strong electric current through the water.
  • electrolysis which decomposes water molecules into its components (hydrogen and oxygen) by passing a strong electric current through the water.
  • Such a system could be used in conjunction with the solar energy system for small scale hydrogen production that can be used as an alternate fuel source when water and sunlight are readily available. Such a process would produce only water vapor and no greenhouse gases.
  • a supply unit may be provisioned with a filtration unit including a filter, such as a high efficiency particulate absorbing (HEPA) filter, to cleanse incoming air of chemical, radiological, and/or biological contaminants.
  • the filtration unit may be an integral part of the supply unit or an attachment that can be connected to the unit.
  • the filtration unit may further comprise at least one air drawer to draw air through an opening in the unit and through the filter, wherein the air is drawn through the filtration unit at a sufficient rate to achieve and sustain a positive pressure environment within the enclosed structure.
  • a positive pressure environment occurs when the air within the enclosed structure is at a higher pressure than the air outside of the structure.
  • the pressure differential will serve to force air out of the structure, from the high pressure environment to the low pressure environment.
  • the opportunity for unfiltered or tainted air to enter the structure is significantly diminished. Therefore, a generally clean supply of air is provided, with most of the air entering the structure being drawn in by the air drawer and then filtered.
  • the unit may then be converted into a limited capacity shelter that an authorized beneficiary could use for shelter if the need should arise, with the authorized beneficiary being protected from air contaminants by the filtration unit.
  • a unit may also include, for example, a ski or track attachment that can be attached to the bottom of the unit to transform the unit into a sled for snow mobility.
  • a ski or track attachment can be attached to the bottom of the unit to transform the unit into a sled for snow mobility.
  • Such a configuration can facilitate a unit's movement over snowy and icy terrain or possibly muddy terrain.
  • a plurality of units having ski attachments could be connected together and moved across a snowy or icy terrain that may not be suitable for wheels or other vehicles.
  • the unit may be useful to further configure and arrange the unit to also selectively travel compatibly on railroad tracks.
  • This may comprise, for example, outfitting the unit with retractable flanged wheels that can be selectively lowered to interact compatibly with a set of railroad tracks. So configured, the unit can selectively readily travel on railroad tracks which may, in a given time of need, comprise a relatively unblocked means of departing from a location of civil upheaval. Such an option may be used when other modes of transportation are unavailable or as a primary or alternative means of transporting units. Because rail tracks are standardized and extensive rail transport systems, including rail tracks, already exist, the existing infrastructure could be used to move units from one location to another, without the civil security provider having to build a new transportation infrastructure. Further, a plurality of units having railroad compatibility may be connected together.
  • a unit may be configured in any of a variety of shapes and sizes for varying functionality.
  • a unit's shape may comprise an: oval, honey-comb, pyramid, octagon, hexagon, parallelogram, rhombus, circle, square, triangle, rectangle, cylinder, hemisphere, cone, diamond, pentagon, elliptical, trapezoid, and so forth.
  • Each shape may have a different use depending on the size, type, amount, and so forth of the provisions contained therein.
  • each shape may have a different stacking or interlocking configuration for optimal storage and/or subsequent usage of the unit container.
  • different shapes could also identify or signify, for example, different types, sizes, amounts, or caches of goods.
  • maintaining 303 the resource in such a context can further optionally comprise maintaining 403 the utility of the stored necessities. This can comprise, for example, monitoring the usability of perishable items and replacing such items on a corresponding schedule. As another simple illustration this step 403 can comprise holding certain items in deep refrigeration or in other special storage conditions as may suit the proper maintenance of such items.
  • Such maintenance 303 can also optionally comprise making adjustments 404 to the stored necessities to reflect dynamically changing circumstances as occur during the consideration-based private civil security subscription period.
  • a new product may become available that is particularly useful in treating a particular infectious condition that may likely arise upon the occurrence of a particular kind of civilly-catastrophic event.
  • maintaining 303 such resources can readily accommodate updating the acquired and stored items to include a supply of this new product.
  • this step of making adjustments 404 can readily comprise one or more of removing a particular one of the stored necessities (as when a better substitute becomes available, when the stored necessity itself is shown to be less effective for its intended purpose than was originally thought, and so forth), adding additional ones of the stored necessities (as when it becomes subsequently understood that more of a particular item is desirable to achieve a particular survival-related goal or purpose), adding at least one new stored necessity that is not already stored (as illustrated in the example provided above), and so forth.
  • the resource being acquired and maintained comprises consumable or non-consumable items.
  • these teachings are applicable for use with other resources as well.
  • maintaining 303 the resource may relate to providing civilly-catastrophic event-based access to a shelter.
  • this step of maintaining 303 the resource can comprise maintaining 1001 such a shelter.
  • Such a construction will usually at least serve to protect the inhabitants from environmental stress and extremes.
  • a shelter will typically also comprise internal temperature control, lighting, storage facilities, sleeping facilities, food preparation facilities, personal hygiene facilities, and so forth.
  • a shelter may also be equipped to provide for water treatment (such as filtering, bacteria removal, and so forth), waste treatment and/or recycling, electrical power generation, and/or air treatment (including but not limited to conditioning, filtering, and so forth).
  • water treatment such as filtering, bacteria removal, and so forth
  • waste treatment and/or recycling waste treatment and/or recycling
  • electrical power generation including but not limited to conditioning, filtering, and so forth.
  • such a shelter can also be equipped with communication facilities including a variety of wireless broadcast capabilities, long-distance two-way communications capabilities, and so forth.
  • Security will likely comprise a primary concern for such a shelter, hi particular it will likely be important to secure the shelter, any resources as are stored or otherwise available at the shelter, and the inhabitants of the shelter from unauthorized entry and access.
  • this can comprise maintaining the shelter in a location that is substantially distal from a nearest substantial human population.
  • a shelter 1102 may be separated from the closest major population bases 1103 by a distance that at least exceeds some predetermined substantial distance X 1104.
  • this distance X might comprise, for example, 800 kilometers.
  • Other factors might well play a part in this regard, of course. For example, a significant natural barrier (such as a large mountain range) might lie between a major population base and a shelter and make reasonable a shorter separation distance between such entities.
  • a suitable water source 1105 can comprise a ground-level water source or an underground water source as, in either case, ready access to the water source may be available. This, in turn, can be useful with respect to ensuring an adequate supply of water for the inhabitants of the shelter 1102 in times of need.
  • a ground-level water source may also provide a means of ingress and egress to facilitate the comings and goings of the authorized beneficiaries (for example, a navigable waterway can provide an effective pathway by which to transport authorized beneficiaries to the shelter 1102).
  • Dispersed shelters can also help ensure that at least some shelters will more likely survive civilly- catastrophic events that pose sufficient destructive force to destroy such a shelter or to otherwise significantly impair its purpose and functionality.
  • Such shelters may be differentiated, for example, with respect to their relative support for such things as a maximum supportable population, a depth and breadth of provided nonessential accouterments of life, medical facilities (such as, but not limited to, specialized equipment such as respirators, dialysis equipment, operating facilities, and so forth), pet animal accommodations, risk threat abatement capability, entertainment facilities, and so forth.
  • Assignment and/or access to a given differentiated shelter can be determined, at least in part, by such things as relative initial proximity of the authorized beneficiary, the terms and conditions of the corresponding subscription agreement, and so forth.
  • these teachings can be simply practiced by provision of shelter and/or life-sustaining supplies; gaining physical access to such resources comprises the responsibility of the authorized beneficiaries. During such times, of course, it can be expected that civil conditions will be troubled and confusing. Therefore, by another approach these teachings can further encompass transporting at least some of the authorized beneficiaries to the shelter and/or supplies in response to the occurrence of a civilly- catastrophic event. There are various ways by which to accomplish such a task.
  • At least one rally point can be identified 1002.
  • a rally point need not be reserved only for this purpose and may, for example, simply comprise a convenient location for at least some authorized beneficiaries.
  • Example rally points might include sports stadiums and auditoriums, amusement parks, and the like. When possible, it may be helpful to locate such a rally point relatively near an airstrip and/or a navigable waterway.
  • Such amenities can potentially be used when transporting the gathered beneficiaries to their destination (as when, for example, a destination shelter is accessible from the navigable waterway that is also readily accessible from the rally point).
  • one or more such rally points can be identified for each larger population area that contains authorized beneficiaries. It would also be possible, of course, to identify rally points to serve a similar function in more rural settings as well if desired.
  • This process can then optionally provide 1003 information regarding such rally points to the authorized beneficiaries.
  • This information can be provided prior to the occurrence of a civilly-catastrophic event if desired. It may also be useful or possible to provide such information (either in the first instance or as a supplemental notice) following the initiation of such an event. The latter may be achieved using such communication means as may be available at the time. It would also be possible to provision each authorized beneficiary (or family or company of beneficiaries) with one or more communications devices by which such information could be provided. This process could then provide 504 appropriate transportation to move the authorized beneficiaries from these rally points to the destination (such as to a designated shelter).
  • Such transportation can comprise standard vehicles (cars, buses, boats, airplanes, railroad cars, and so forth). If desired, however, more specialized equipment could be used including but not limited to armored transports, environmentally-contained vehicles or trailers, and so forth.
  • a short-term survival kit to facilitate their survival prior to their being able to access the aforementioned stored necessities upon the occurrence of a civilly-catastrophic event.
  • a short-term survival kit might comprise, for example, a seven day supply of nourishment, clothing, food preparation items, bedding, navigation tools, communication tools and/or location beacons, first aid supplies, water treatment items, items to aid with protecting against or otherwise treating environmentally borne hazards, maps, portable power sources, fire starting equipment, survival instructions, and so forth.
  • authorized beneficiaries could be provided 1202 with a survival instruction guide kit. These instructions could provide information regarding survival practices, emergency responses, and so forth.
  • a survival instruction guide kit such as a family group, a company group, and so forth.
  • each authorized beneficiary who comprised a part of a shared group such as a family group, a company group, and so forth
  • the participants would be able to take their own coordinated actions while being relatively secure in their knowledge of what their group counterparts were also likely doing at that time.
  • This survival instruction guide kit could comprise, for example, a book or manual having printing survival instructions and information in combination with fill-in-the-blank opportunities whereby a given authorized beneficiary could customize the instructions to specifically suit their particular needs and situation.
  • Such blanks could be used, for example, to prompt the beneficiary to think through and to record information such as their primary and secondary rally points or other family/group meeting points and protocols, communications protocols and contact information, specific items (perhaps somewhat unique to the individual and which may, or may not, relate to the survival of that individual) that should be stockpiled or otherwise made readily available in the event of a civilly-catastrophic event, and so forth.
  • Such a book or manual could include indexes, tabs, or other navigation tools to permit a reader to quickly find the relevant information they require during a time of need.
  • teachings would also accommodate providing 1203 survival training to authorized beneficiaries.
  • Such training could comprise in-person, on-site training, live instructors, and/or previously prepared teaching resources such as, but not limited to, electronic learning resources.
  • This training could include both general information regarding specific do's and don'ts as pertain to different kinds of civilly-catastrophic events as well as more specific information regarding specific actions that should be taken by the authorized beneficiary with respect to successfully achieving access to their subscribed-to resources as per their subscription.
  • These teachings will also accommodate providing 1204 authorized beneficiaries with a corresponding authorization mechanism by which they can effect their right of access to the resources provided by their subscription.
  • This may comprise a mechanism that the beneficiary carries with them as personal property (such as an identification card) or, for example, a biometric-based identity authentication process that relies upon fingerprints, retinal patterns, or some other relatively unique aspect of the human body.
  • the process 100 provides 104 the authorized beneficiaries with consideration-based access to the non-civil security resources.
  • this step of providing access to such resources can readily comprise providing a plurality of different access opportunities.
  • Such opportunities can differ from one another in any number of ways. For example, these opportunities can differ from one another with respect to the specific resources that are included, the quantity of resources that are included, the duration of time during which the aforementioned access may occur, the conditions under which such access can occur, the manner by which such access occurs (for example, whether civil security provisions are delivered to a given authorized beneficiary (and if so, when, how often, and so forth) or must be picked up by the authorized beneficiary from a given distribution point), and so forth.
  • differing access opportunities could comprise, at least in part, a first access opportunity that provides limited access to no more than a first amount of the civil security resources and a second access opportunity that provides limited access to more than the first amount of the civil security resources.
  • the first amount can be specified, if desired, as a function of a predetermined quantity of the civil security resources and/or as a function of a predetermined amount of time during which the civil security resources are accessed.
  • the second access opportunity could differ from the first access opportunity, at least part, by providing an opportunity to have access to the civil security resources at a time that is temporally subsequent to a time when the first access opportunity provides access to the civil security resources (to thereby provide, for example, for a resupply or replenishment opportunity that supplements an original stock of supplies as might correspond to what is provided pursuant to the first access opportunity).
  • a first access opportunity could provide limited access to only civil security provisions and civil security services while a second, different access opportunity could provide access to both these civil security resources and civil security facilities as well.
  • a first access opportunity that provides limited access to only a limited selection of the civil security provisions and a limited selection of the civil security services comprising information-related services;
  • a second access opportunity that provides limited access to only a limited selection of the civil security provisions and a limited selection of the civil security services comprising both information-related services and transportation services (such as civilly-catastrophic event-based transportation to a civil security provisions distribution facility);
  • a third access opportunity that provides limited access to only a limited selection of the civil security provisions, a limited selection of the civil security services comprising information-related services and transportation services, and a limited selection of the civil security facilities comprising a civil security rally point (or, in other words, an access opportunity that equals that provided by the second access opportunity plus access to the civil security rally point);
  • a fourth access opportunity that equals that provided by the third access opportunity plus access to a civil security shelter (or shelters);
  • a fifth access opportunity that equals that provided by the fourth access opportunity plus access to civil security rescue services.
  • a given provider of these civil security resources can provide five such access opportunities to comprise the primary offerings to be provided to the authorized beneficiaries.
  • Each such offering can of course command a different corresponding level of consideration (such as, for example, a different corresponding payment to be proffered for each).
  • such an extension (or upgrade) could be accommodated by simply requiring payment of a price differential as otherwise distinguishes such opportunities in the first instance.
  • Such an approach might be appropriate, for example, when accommodating such a change well prior to even the threat of any particular civilly- catastrophic event.
  • extension or upgrade
  • such an extension might require a considerably higher supplemental payment when the authorized beneficiary seeks the extension (or upgrade) during or following a given civilly-catastrophic event and/or at a time when a given civilly-catastrophic event is perceived as being an imminent occurrence.
  • this process will also optionally accommodate providing a key to authorized beneficiaries to thereby facilitate and permit those authorized beneficiaries to access one or more of the civil security resources during an authorized time of need.
  • a key may comprise a physical item (such as, for example, an identification card or a physical lock key) and/or a non-physical item (such as, for example, a code such as a personal identification number, a password, or the like).
  • this step can comprise (in conjunction with acquiring information, materials, and/or samples from the authorized beneficiary to thereby characterize the biometric of choice) providing instructions to the authorized beneficiary regarding presentation of such a biometric in order to gain the desired access.
  • this step can comprise providing the code to the authorized beneficiary.
  • this step can comprise receiving a code of choice from the authorized beneficiary and then providing confirmation to the authorized beneficiary regarding acceptance of that proffered code.
  • a subscriber may not have access to proper identification and/or credit documentation.
  • a subscriber's DNA may be used to not only identify the subscriber, but also associate the subscriber with their credit availability.
  • a pre-programmed DNA test could be used with the unit, shelter, rescue, or transportation operations of the civil security provider to verify the identity of a subscriber and/or the subscriber's credit availability.
  • the civil security provider may want to verify the available credit of the subscriber for a variety of circumstances, such as, for example, when the subscriber wants to purchase additional benefits or services from the provider. Further, the provider may be able to certify a subscriber's credit availability to other entities.
  • the DNA test could also be used for authorized beneficiaries of the subscriber, with the credit availability of the authorized beneficiary being linked to the credit availability of the subscriber. This application could also utilize polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology to replicate and amplify a small amount of DNA.
  • PCR polymerase chain reaction
  • a login screen may be pre-programmed with dead keys to provide increased login security.
  • a dead key is a key on a computer's keyboard that produces no output character when pressed by itself. Rather, the key only works in conjunction with another key, to thereby effectively change the output of the key that is pressed immediately after the dead key.
  • the activated dead keys may be based on the login box and/or the login screen.
  • a base line membership for a given authorized beneficiary can bear a corresponding base line price and offer access to a corresponding set of civil security resources.
  • These resources might comprise, for example: Pre-civilly catastrophic event delivery of a short-term supply of survival resources comprising at least nutritional consumables. Hydration supplies can also be provided if desired.
  • This short-term supply can comprise, for example, a sufficient quantity of survival resources to support survival of the corresponding authorized beneficiary for at least a predetermined number of days (such as, for example, a ten day period of time).
  • Pre-civilly catastrophic event access to civil security services comprising consulting services that provide for a preparedness review and inventory as well as preparation of a customized and personalized personal action plan to guide the authorized beneficiary in the event of a civilly-catastrophic event-based time of need.
  • a right to acquire additional civil security provisions (either for current delivery or to be held pending a civilly-catastrophic event-based time of need) and/or to access civil security facilities or additional services.
  • a base line offering can be provided for a relatively modest initial cost and, if and as the authorized beneficiary becomes more learned and experienced with respect to civil security issues and concerns, additional supplemental kinds and levels of protection and security can be subsequently acquired as needed.

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La présente invention concerne une pluralité de ressources de sécurité civile privée (101). Ces ressources de sécurité civile privée comprennent au moins en partie des dispositions de sécurité civile et des équipements de sécurité civile. Des abonnements de sécurité civile privée basés sur un paiement sont acceptés (301) de la part d'abonnés qui auront en échange accès à une ou plusieurs ressources en cas de catastrophe civile. Cette ressource est ensuite maintenue (303) en attendant d'avoir besoin de permettre l'accès des abonnés à la ressource en cas de catastrophe.
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