WO2008082746A2 - Procédé facilitant l'accès à la sécurité civile privée sur abonnement - Google Patents
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- 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. 3 comprises a flow diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
- Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT
- 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. 12 comprises a flow diagram as configured in accordance with various embodiments of the invention.
- 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 Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT 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.
- the 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,
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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 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 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 including but not limited to instructional texts, reference works, laboratory and demonstrative equipment, and so forth
- repair and maintenance tools and services crafts supplies and training; and/or sports equipment and facilities; to note but a few examples.
- 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.
- the acquired item may be unique and/or proprietary to the acquiring/storing entity.
- 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 Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT 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.)
- 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); Attorney Docket No.
- such a train can be provided with a leading car or other apparatus that is configured and arranged to effectively derail a blocking object on the railway tracks in order to clear a path for itself. It would also be possible to configure and arrange such a train to have a capability of itself leaving its tracks and maneuvering around an obstacle (including, for example, an inoperable section of railway track) in order to reach a serviceable section of track.
- an obstacle including, for example, an inoperable section of railway track
- different forms of developing motive force Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT can be employed. For example, both diesel powered locomotives and coal burning locomotives can be provided. So configured, the train may be able to maintain movement even when some sources of fuel become unavailable.
- the appearance of the train can be modified in order to present a particular image to an onlooker.
- the train can appear to comprise an old, poorly maintained freight train.
- the train can appear to comprise a military platform that poses a threat to those seeking to make unauthorized contact with the train.
- a train configured, arranged, and deployed as a civil security platform, can provide an effective means of safely and reliably moving a relatively large population of authorized beneficiaries from a location of civil disorder and/or to a location that comprises a relatively safe location in this regard.
- Such a train can also serve as desired as a short term or even a long (or indeterminate) term shelter if desired.
- 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 Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT 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.
- a private civil security provider will encounter particular difficulties not faced by providers of other, more traditional, products and services. For example, marketing such services, provisions, and facilities to consumers or clients may prove challenging because individuals may be hesitant to participate because of their reluctance to acknowledge the presence of certain threats or perhaps because they mistakenly believe that their federal, state, local, provincial, or municipal government is effectively addressing and preparing for such civilly-catastrophic events. Further, the business of civil security presents several unique obstacles and challenges to a business plan or model because the business partly operates within a realm sometimes occupied (or is at least perceived as being occupied) by various governmental entities. Some particular examples to address these concerns now follow (it being understood that these examples are provided for illustrative purposes and are not intended to comprise an exhaustive listing of such possibilities).
- the terms and conditions as pertain to a given subscription opportunity can be conditioned, in whole or in part, upon a group affiliation as corresponds to a given candidate subscriber and/or authorized beneficiary.
- a given authorized beneficiary/subscriber may only be permitted to subscribe by first becoming a member of a given group. This right to purchase a subscription or license gives the group members the opportunity to obtain a subscription and/or civil security benefits.
- This group may be defined and Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT controlled by the provider of civil security benefits or may be formed and maintained by some other party or entity.
- the subscriber may first pay a membership fee and may then become eligible, either on this basis alone or in conjunction with other criteria of interest, to acquire or otherwise participate in such a subscription.
- This initial fee can comprise a one time payment that offers lifetime access in this regard.
- this fee may only provide such an opportunity for a given amount of time such as one year. It would also be possible to combine these two approaches such that an initial fee (such as initiation fee) is due only once while periodic payments are additionally required to maintain the currency of the subscribers' rights in this regard.
- Such a subscriber, having joined such a group in this manner would then have access, for example, to purchase access to other civil security benefits such as civil security provisions, facilities, and/or services as desired.
- such a group affiliation can serve to influence a particular kind of civil security benefit package (and/or the cost of such a package) that may be available to a given subscriber/authorized beneficiary.
- the provider of civil security benefits upon ascertaining that a particular group bears reduced or increased risk with respect to a likely need of accessing such benefits in the future may use that information to assess lower or higher required payments from members of such groups.
- a given group of individuals may possess certain skills or other attributes that are particularly useful in a civil security context. Accordingly, to encourage the participation and availability of such individuals, the provider of civil security benefits may offer subscriptions to such individuals at a reduced rate.
- a given group may represent a body of constituents that are widely geographically distributed.
- the provider of civil security benefits may reason that a single civilly-catastrophic event is unlikely to simultaneously impact a substantial majority of such a body. Accordingly, the provider of civil security benefits may elect to offer civil security benefit subscriptions to the members of such a group at a reduced rate in order to encourage increased relative levels of participation by such persons. It would also be possible, of course, to require increased fees or the like when dealing with persons who are members of a less favored group. It would also be possible to provide, or require, a plurality of nested memberships in order to receive a particular civil security resource of interest.
- 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 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 bundle will likely serve to store the resources as correspond to a plurality of authorized beneficiaries.
- resources are stored in the aggregate.
- some or all of the acquired necessities are stored in subscriber-based bundles 801. For example, each such bundle
- Such 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, hi addition, if desired, 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.
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- 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 second storage facility 902 may contain an additional 1 ,000 such storage units.
- 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, longdistance two-way communications capabilities, and so forth.
- a suitable water Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT 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.
- the process 100 provides 104 the authorized beneficiaries with consideration-based access to the non-civil security resources. Notwithstanding the provision of such 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 Attorney Docket No. 8379/ 91116PCT so, when, how often, and so forth) or must be picked up by the authorized beneficiary from a given distribution point), and so forth.
- 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);
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L'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, des équipements de sécurité civile et des dispositions de sécurité civile. Des abonnements de sécurité civile privée sur contrepartie sont acceptés (301) de la part d'abonnés par rapport à la fourniture d'un accès sur la base d'événement civilement catastrophique à une ou plusieurs de ces ressources. Cette ressource est alors maintenue (303) en attente d'un besoin pour permettre l'accès sur abonnement à la ressource en cas d'événement catastrophique.
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