Threat Modeling GUI for Building Security Planning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current security system planning for buildings is manual, error-prone, and time-consuming, and non-technical individuals lack the understanding to comprehend or mitigate building-specific threats effectively.

Innovation Solution

A computer system generates a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to visualize intruder threat levels within a building by accessing floor plans, performing threat modeling, and considering structured data on neighborhood safety, building risk, and room threat models, providing visual indicators of threat probabilities on a heat map.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual system planning and site surveys are used to determine security components, then experts can provide technical information about threats, but the process is error-prone, time-consuming, and non-technical individuals cannot comprehend or mitigate threats effectively

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of threat assessmentVSAvoidcomprehensibility for non-technical users

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a computer system as an intermediary that automatically performs threat modeling and generates visual heat maps. This mediator translates complex security data into intuitive visual representations, resolving the contradiction by providing both accurate expert-level analysis and easy-to-understand visual output for non-technical users

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of expert walkthrough surveys with an automated computer-based threat modeling system. This substitution eliminates human error in manual assessment while generating visual outputs that are easily comprehensible to non-technical users, simultaneously improving reliability and ease of operation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Loss of information

If manual walkthrough site surveys are conducted by experts, then technical information about threats can be gathered, but the process is time-consuming and error-prone

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of threat dataVSAvoidtime for system planning

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables the building or property to 'self-assess' threats through automated computer-based threat modeling using floor plans and structured data. This self-service approach eliminates the need for time-consuming manual expert surveys while ensuring complete threat data capture through systematic automated analysis of all entry/exit points and interior spaces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent substitutes the manual mechanical survey process with an automated computer-based threat modeling system that processes floor plans and structured data to generate comprehensive threat assessments. This substitution dramatically reduces planning time while maintaining or improving the completeness of threat information through systematic automated analysis

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Loss of information

If detailed technical information about threats is provided to non-technical users, then comprehensive threat understanding is achieved, but users cannot comprehend or use the information effectively

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedetail of threat informationVSAvoiduser comprehension

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses color-coded heat maps to represent different threat levels visually. This transforms detailed technical threat information into intuitive color representations where different colors indicate varying threat severity, allowing non-technical users to immediately comprehend threat levels without understanding complex technical data

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The computer system acts as an intermediary that retains detailed threat information internally while presenting simplified visual representations to users. This mediator preserves complete threat data accuracy while translating it into easily comprehensible visual heat maps that non-technical users can understand and act upon

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10459593B2Systems and methods for providing a graphical user interface indicating intruder threat levels for a building

Publication Date: 2019.10.29 KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION LLC

AI summary

A computer system is provided that generates a Graphical User Interface indicating one or more intruder threat levels for a building. The computer system includes a processor, which upon execution of stored instructions is configured to access a building floor plan having one or more entry and exit points and to access an intruder threat level associated with each of the one or more entry and exit points; to perform threat modeling to determine intruder threat levels at a plurality of locations within the building, contingent upon the building floor plan and the intruder threat level associated with the one or more building entry and exit points; and to provide a GUI on a display indicating, relative to the building floor plan, the determined intruder threat level within the building, at the plurality of points within the building and at the one or more entry and exit points.