Patents Represented by Law Firm Michaelson & Wall
  • Patent number: 5971580
    Abstract: The present invention is an electronic awareness system for evaluating, monitoring, and controlling, in real-time, an outside environment having entities and occurrences with characteristics. The electronic monitoring system includes input sensors for receiving real-time data produced by the entities, a computer workstation for storing the input data in a database, a computer program having a graphical user interface for interfacing a user with the workstation and the computer program. The graphical user interface comprises a map frame chart function, a worksheet function, a utility function, and a priority navigator function for monitoring and evaluating the input data graphically, tabularly, statistically, and comparatively with a predetermined relative priority scale, respectively, for producing output data. The electronic awareness system also includes output reactors for receiving the output data for controlling certain entities and occurrences of the outside environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Graham Thomas Hall, Robert Allyn Dick