James Kirby Mcdonough, 44Tampa, FL

7321883, Jan 22, 2008

Aug 4, 2006

11/498884

Amos Freedy - Encino CA, US
Marvin Cohen - Arlington VA, US
Elan Freedy - Fairfax VA, US
Gershon Weltman - Sherman Oaks CA, US
James McDonough - Newbury Park CA, US

Perceptronics Solutions, Inc. - Sherman Oaks CA

G06F 17/00
G06N 5/00

706 45, 706 46, 706 61

An automated facilitator for use in structuring a group decision process using end user collaboration units through which corresponding stories are entered and feedback is provided, the facilitator including at least one database which stores models for problem solving; and at least one automated facilitation server which receives information on a problem to be resolved, receives the stories from the collaboration end units relating to the problem to form a story matrix, translates the story matrix into an influence diagram and/or decision tree displayed on the end user collaboration units using the stored models, provides alerts of divergences to be resolved by the end user collaboration units to resolve the problem according to the stored models, updates the displayed influence diagrams and decision trees according to feedback received from the user collaboration units due to the alert using the stored models, and provides a best solution based upon the updates which indicates a sensitivity of the solution to changes in parameters of the story matrix.

2004004, Mar 11, 2004

Aug 8, 2003

10/311449

James McDonough - Newbury Park CA, US
Robert Torchon - Moorpark CA, US
Matt Walton - Santa Monica CA, US
William Crooks - Thousand Oaks CA, US

G01V001/40

702/012000

A system() architecture, and method for creating, storing, managing, accessing, communicating and displaying command, control and management information, to include text documents, tables, static map data and geographically reference dynamic data for the management of incidents or events by distributed, ad-hoc groups are described herein. The static map data may include, for example, cartographic data in digital format such as terrain data or street data. The dynamic data may include text, documents, tables, icons, and other symbology that graphically represent current status information (e.g., the current location of an incident, a resource, or the status of a facility). The system () includes one or more client subsystems () running purpose-built and/or conventional software applications that communicate with a server subsystem () and can independently request, receive, store, and subsequently display the static map data and/or the dynamic data in document, tabular or graphical form. The display might include representing the dynamic data in graphical form either separately as tables and reports, or as an overlay on the static map data.