Abstract: A method and system for assessing a threat level associated with a distress signal. The method may include linking a first communication device on a client side communication system with a second communication device on a provider side communication system over a communications network. The method may include transmitting a distress signal from the first communication device to the second communication device, and mapping, via the provider side communication system, a geographic origin of the distress signal. The method may also include transmitting an audio signal in a one-way communication link from the first communication device to the second communication device, and attributing a threat level associated with any of an audio level, a frequency, and a duration of the transmitted audio signal via the provider side communication system.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed herein for quantifying and presenting information representative of technological improvements in a technological domain based on patent metrics that may include receiving a request for a patent-based technological improvement rate in a target technological domain, selecting a set of patents representative of the technological domain from an online search of a patent database over a network, storing patent metadata in a memory for the set of patents received over the network from the online search of the patent database, calculating values for one or more patent metrics from the patent metadata for the technological domain, calculating the patent-based technological improvement rate for the technological domain by applying a predictive model to the one or more patent metric values for the technological domain, and communicating the patent-based technological improvement rate through an output communication interface for presentation through an output of an end user computing device.