	US 7,577,989 B1
	Enterprise responder for emergencies and disaster
Sandeep Ashok Bhat, Pleasanton, Calif. (US)
Assigned to United Software Associates, Inc., Pleasanton, Calif. (US)
Filed on Oct. 16, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/966,743.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/512442, filed on Oct. 20, 2003.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/512443, filed on Oct. 20, 2003.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/512441, filed on Oct. 20, 2003.
Int. Cl. G06F 7/04 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 726—16

12 Claims

1. An enterprise security management (ESM) system comprising:

web-based application platform for authorizing and monitoring visitors of a secure facility and for further providing a time-stamping process for noting the time of arrival and departure of the visitors and for alerting authorities when the duration of stay of a visitor has exceeded a predetermined time for visiting and further including an enterprise responder for emergencies and disasters (eRED) system for receiving local geographic information and being accessed, through the Internet, by emergency responder(s) on alert, the received local geographic information for identifying the location of the secure facility thereby allowing fast responsiveness to an emergency.