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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
May. 12, 1999
Bradley L. Gilbert, Burlingame, CA (US);
Therese M. Cleary, Woodside, CA (US);
Schlumberger Resource Management Services, Inc., Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
The application discloses a processing system that includes a processor configured to qualify, based at least in part upon meta information, environmental status information extracted from signals received from a plurality of remote sensors, each of the sensor signals being indicative of the condition of a respective environment being monitored by a corresponding one of the sensors. The processor preferably is configured to generate a report of the status of a plurality of physically distributed environments based at least in part upon correlation of environmental status information extracted from a plurality sensor signals indicative of the condition of a plurality of respective monitored environments with information relating to the activities of one or more entities authorized to interact with the monitored environments. Methods of processing information received from a plurality of remote sensors also are disclosed.