Abstract: A method for authorizing access to data within a system is disclosed herein. The method includes authenticating a first trusted user identity corresponding to a first individual and granting that first trusted user identity a trust assertion privilege. The method then calls for transmitting an invitation to a second individual, the invitation including a trust assertion from said first user, and receiving and authenticating a second trusted user identity corresponding to said second individual. The trust assertion is dependent on a subjective decision by the first user to trust the second user. Next, a trust relationship between said first and second trusted user identities is recorded.
Abstract: A wide-area emergency information management system includes a broadcasting entity (10) and delivers content to authorized receiver clients (20), such as PC's, laptops, wireless devices, etc. The specific content (26), which can include voice, text, video or any other information content related to a planned response to a given crisis or emergency such as enemy attack or natural disaster, is prepared in advance (28), tailored to the class of recipient receiver client and/or user (44), securely downloaded (32,36) and stored locally in a secure cache (21). In response to a small control file from a centralized emergency management authority, the receiver client system accesses the cache (21), decrypts the content (26), and delivers it to the end user.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 11, 2008
Publication date:
June 5, 2008
Applicant:
Swan island Networks, Inc.
Inventors:
Jake Heelan, Charles Jennings, Pete O'Dell, Ryan McMahon, Grant Roholt
Abstract: A wide-area emergency information management system includes a broadcasting entity (10) and delivers content to authorized receiver clients (20), such as PC's, laptops, wireless devices, etc. The specific content (26), which can include voice, text, video or any other information content related to a planned response to a given crisis or emergency such as enemy attack or natural disaster, is prepared in advance (28), tailored to the class of recipient receiver client and/or user (44), securely downloaded (32,36) and stored locally in a secure cache (21). In response to a small control file from a centralized emergency management authority, the receiver client system accesses the cache (21), decrypts the content (26), and delivers it to the end user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 4, 2003
Date of Patent:
February 26, 2008
Assignee:
Swan Island Networks, Inc.
Inventors:
Jake Heelan, Charles Jennings, Pete O'Dell, Ryan McMahon, Grant Roholt