Dennis M Carmichael

US Patent:

20030208534, Nov 6, 2003

Filed:

May 1, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/427273

Inventors:

Dennis Carmichael - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709/203000, 709/205000

Abstract:

An enhanced-productivity electronic meeting system environment integrates a multiplicity of meeting tools allowing a group of people to collaborate in a fluid and intuitive way, sharing ideas on a common workspace while preserving the privacy of individual notes and communications. In the preferred embodiment, participants interact through a set of tablet computers connected via a local-area wireless network to provide a superior alternative to handouts, presentations, whiteboards, and personal notepads, in a single, integrated system. The primary system components include a server application program interfaced to a document database and meeting controller application program, and a meeting clients program executing on the computer of each participant.

US Patent:

20070120671, May 31, 2007

Filed:

Nov 28, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/563955

Inventors:

Dennis Carmichael - Ann Arbor MI, US
John Ellis - Chesterfield Township MI, US

International Classification:

G08B 13/14
G08B 1/08
G08B 5/22

US Classification:

340572100, 340539130, 340825490

Abstract:

A method for automatically calibrating and deploying a tracking system of the type used by emergency responders () at the scene of a chaotic event such as a fire or the like. Each firefighter () is issued a wireless tag () having a unique identification number. Personal details about the firefighter () are prerecorded in a central database (). Every piece of equipment () is also issued a wireless tag (), with details about that piece of equipment prerecorded in the central database (). At the scene of an emergency, drop readers () are scattered about the area. The drop readers () sense the location and ID number of each wireless tag (). The drop readers () communicate with the central database () via a wireless connection (). A scene commander () interfaces with the central database () through a graphic user interface () to acquire real time information about the location and movement of all personnel and equipment at the response scene. The reported data may be superimposed over a map of the scene, and exported in the form of reports ().