Weather-based reminders

• US 10,019,888 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Issued: 07/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Bonner, Matthew R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Quan-Zhen
• Assistant Examiner(s): BURGDORF, STEPHEN R
• Application Number:
  US13/749,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20140203940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,993 Days
• Field of Search: 340601, 340540, 340905, 4554041, 4554042, 4554563, 455466, 709206, 709217, 702 3, 705 1464, 725 33
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a reminder application for creating and displaying weather-based reminders. The reminder application provides a set of tools to create a reminder and associate the reminder with a weather condition for a location. To present a weather-based reminder, the reminder application of some embodiments identifies a reminder associated with a weather condition for a location. The application then retrieves weather data for that location. After retrieving the weather data, the application then compares the weather data with the weather condition. When the weather data satisfies the weather condition, the application presents the reminder.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a reminder application that when executed by at least one processing unit provides a graphical user interface (“

GUI”

), the GUI comprising;

a reminder editing tool for inputting a weather-based reminder in terms of (i) a set of weather-based conditions comprising a weather type and a location of the weather condition, (ii) an operator that specifies whether all of the weather-based conditions have to be met or only one of the weather-based conditions has to be met before a notification associated with the reminder is presented, and (iii) a set of reminder content to be presented as part of the reminder;

a weather condition tool for gathering weather data for the location; and

a set of notification tools for presenting the notification and the reminder content as an alert when the gathered weather data for the location satisfies the set of weather-based conditions according to the operator.

2. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of weather-based conditions further comprises a duration of the weather condition, wherein the GUI further comprises a time condition tool for specifying the duration of the weather condition.

3. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the GUI further comprises a location condition tool for specifying the location of the weather condition for the reminder.

4. The non-transitory machine readable medium of claim 3, wherein the reminder application executes on a portable device, wherein the notification associated with the reminder is only presented when the portable device is at or near the location.

5. A non-transitory machine readable medium of a mobile device that comprises a user interface, at least one processing unit, and a display screen, the non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by the processing unit, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

through the mobile device'"'"'s user interface, receiving input to create a reminder that triggers on a weather condition for a location, the input to create the reminder comprising content to be presented along with the reminder;

based on the input, creating and storing the reminder;

repeatedly checking with a weather server to obtain weather data for the location; and

when the obtained weather data satisfies the weather condition, presenting the reminder with the reminder content on the display screen as an alert;

wherein the reminder content is a media clip.

6. A non-transitory machine readable medium of a mobile device that comprises a user interface, at least one processing unit, and a display screen, the non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for execution by the processing unit, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

through the mobile device'"'"'s user interface, receiving input to create a reminder that triggers on a weather condition for a location, the input to create the reminder comprising content to be presented along with the reminder;

based on the input, creating and storing the reminder;

repeatedly checking with a weather server to obtain weather data for the location; and

when the obtained weather data satisfies the weather condition, presenting the reminder with the reminder content on the display screen as an alert;

wherein the reminder content is a graphical image.