Donald Aaron Barnett

US Patent:

6958688, Oct 25, 2005

Filed:

Jun 5, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/456131

Inventors:

Donald A. Barnett - Chesapeake VA, US

Assignee:

Hevel Doajik, LLC - Chesapeake VA

International Classification:

G08B029/00

US Classification:

340506, 340 592, 3405681, 705 22, 705 28

Abstract:

A method and system for registering information about a variety of property items either centrally or in distributed fashion enables quick notification of proper authorities when the property item is stolen. The system can invoke police authority networks and/or a private security system network. Various types of information can be stored in a central database accessible over a public network such as the Internet, or locally on a personal credential item, such as a security card carried with the owner/user of the property item. Information types can include descriptive textual information, visual information, and auditory information about the property item and its owner or user. When the item is discovered stolen, the card can be scanned at a variety of participating card reader devices, which can include ATM machines, retail point-of-sale scanners, gas station pumps, and any other properly equipped public/private/commercial devices. In this way, the system of the present invention automates the notification of proper authorities, and/or the public in general via a network, which may be the Internet, of the theft of a particular property item.

US Patent:

60681845, May 30, 2000

Filed:

Apr 27, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/067130

Inventors:

Donald A. Barnett - Jacksonville NC

International Classification:

G06K 500

US Classification:

235379

Abstract:

A security card system that includes a security card having an appearance like a real credit card or other bank card, and a security network that contains a security firm that enrolls persons in the system who have been provided with a security card by a card-issuing institution, and uses the security network for responding to emergency calls initiated by use of the security card, reports fraud, and in general, implements an emergency system and acts as a theft deterrent.