INTERACTIVE ADVISORY SYSTEM
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Abstract
A method of generating individualized real-time weather and environmental information, including receiving weather or environmental condition data from weather and environmental sensors, analyzing the data received from the sensors to generate weather and environmental information, and transmitting the information to a communicator device. The method may include determining a spatial range of a sensor and/or determining if a communicator device is within close proximity of a sensor. The sensors may be mounted in fixed locations along a roadway or a railway. The sensors may be approximately equidistant.
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21 Claims
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9. A method of generating real-time weather and environmental information for a user, wherein a user database stores a plurality of user profiles and at least two of the user profiles contain information about communicator devices and designated locations of predetermined weather and environmental sensors associated with the designated locations, the method comprising:
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determining a spatial range of at least one of the pre-determined weather and environmental sensors; analyzing, by analyzing means, weather and environmental data stored in a database as well as sensor data received from the pre-determined weather and environmental sensors specified in a user profile for a user to generate weather and environmental information for the user; and transmitting, by transmitting means, the weather and environmental information to a communicator device specified in the user profile for the user. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a weather analysis unit, weather or environmental condition information from weather and environmental sensors mounted in various fixed locations along a roadway or railway; analyzing, by the weather analysis unit, the weather or environmental condition data received from the sensors to generate weather and environmental information; determining one or more communicator devices located in close proximity to the location of the sensors according to user profiles stored in a database, where each of the user profiles contain information about at least one communicator device; and transmitting, by transmitting means, the weather and environmental information to the determined at least one communicator device. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method comprising:
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receiving, by a weather analysis unit, weather or environmental condition information from weather and environmental sensors mounted in various locations along a roadway or railway, wherein the weather and environmental sensors are approximately equidistant; analyzing, by the weather analysis unit, the weather or environmental condition data received from the sensors to generate weather and environmental information; determining one or more communicator devices located in close proximity to the location of the sensors according to user profiles stored in a database, where each of the user profiles contain information about at least one communicator device; and transmitting, by transmitting means, the weather and environmental information to the determined at least one communicator device.
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