Alexander L Franco

8024330, Sep 20, 2011

May 20, 2005

11/133829

Hector Franco - Sunnyvale CA, US
Alexander Franco - Herndon VA, US

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707724, 707725

An incident alert system enables a plurality of users to participate in a collaborative process to report and be alerted of incidents such as emergencies or hazards. A user uses a networked mobile phone with geo-positioning capability to communicate with a server to report incidents and to inquire about potential incidents of interest based on the user's current geographic position. Reports of incidents are transmitted to the server accompanied by the current position of the user/mobile phone. A user's mobile phone is preferably configured to automatically submit periodic inquiries to the server based on the user's location. Upon receipt of an inquiry from a user, the system queries a database to identify reports of potential interest to the inquiring user. The system analyzes the reports to determine whether to alert the inquiring user of a potential incident of interest.

20100071013, Mar 18, 2010

Nov 23, 2009

12/623647

Harmannus Vandermolen - Sunnyvale CA, US
Anthony Wiegering - Seattle WA, US
Michael Sommers - Leesburg VA, US
Scott J. Levine - Arlington VA, US
Alexander Franco - Herndon VA, US

AOL LLC - Dulles VA

H04N 7/173

725109

Instant messages sent by a viewer of a video while the video is perceivable to the viewer may be monitored. An event of interest occurring in the video may be identified based on the monitored instant messages. Metadata that describes the event of interest may be generated and assigned to the video. A request for video content associated with the video may be received from a user. An indexed collection of videos that includes the video may be searched for the requested video content. Based on the search, it may be determined that the video satisfies the user's request. The event of interest occurring in the video may be identified based on the metadata assigned to the video. User perception of a scene from the video that includes the event of interest may be enabled.

20120009894, Jan 12, 2012

Sep 20, 2011

13/237888

Hector Franco - Sunnyvale CA, US
Alexander Franco - Herndon VA, US

H04W 24/00

4554042

An incident alert system enables a plurality of users to participate in a collaborative process to report and be alerted of incidents such as emergencies or hazards. A user uses a networked mobile phone with geo-positioning capability to communicate with a server to report incidents and to inquire about potential incidents of interest based on the user's current geographic position. Reports of incidents are transmitted to the server accompanied by the current position of the user/mobile phone. A user's mobile phone is preferably configured to automatically submit periodic inquiries to the server based on the user's location. Upon receipt of an inquiry from a user, the system queries a database to identify reports of potential interest to the inquiring user. The system analyzes the reports to determine whether to alert the inquiring user of a potential incident of interest.