CUSTOMIZABLE WEATHER ANALYSIS SYSTEM OF USER-SPECIFIED NOTIFICATION THRESHOLDS

• US 20170300840A1
• Filed: 09/10/2014
• Published: 10/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Accuweather Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Accuweather Incorporated
• Inventors: RAINEY, R. Lee, VINCENT, Bill, MCGEEVER, Casey, MASSUNG, Michelle L., PAVLIK, Gregg
• Application Number:
  US15/510,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20170300840A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/06 giving a combined indication of weather conditions catathermometers for measuring "cooling value" related either to weather conditions or to comfort of other human environment G01W1/17; computers per se G06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2455 Query execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06313 Resource planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

A system and method for outputting weather data associated with a user-specified location based on a user-specified weather inquiry, including weather data output based on user-specified weather conditions, locations output based on a user-specified weather inquiry, notifications output regarding weather-related warnings, and notifications output based on weather-related notification thresholds.

Claims

76. The method of claim 75, wherein the weather data conditions include a plurality of current, historical, and forecasted weather conditions and a plurality of weather-related warnings.

77. The method of claim 75, wherein the weather conditions include a plurality of weather-related warnings, the weather-related warnings including river flood warnings, thunderstorm watch boxes, tornado watch boxes, mesoscale discussions, polygon warnings, zone/country warnings, outlooks, advisories, watches, special weather statements, lightning warnings, thunderstorm warnings, heavy rain warnings, high wind warnings, high or low temperature warnings, local storm reports, earthquakes, or hurricane impact forecasts.

78-79. -79. (canceled)

80. The method of claim 75, further comprising:

receiving via a network a location of a mobile computer system from the mobile computer system, the location of the mobile computer system determined by a location detection unit configured to determine the location of the mobile computer system; and

determining the user-specified location based on a location of a mobile computer system.

81-128. -128. (canceled)

129. The method of claim 75, further comprising:

repeatedly receiving updated weather data; and

automatically and repeatedly determining if the updated weather data includes weather data indicating that the at least one user-specified weather condition is less than, equal to, or greater than the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location.

130. (canceled)

131. The method of claim 75, wherein the user-specified procedure is specified by a first user and output to a second user.

132. The method of claim 75, further comprising:

outputting the at least one user-specified procedure to the user via the graphical user interface.

133. The method of claim 75, further comprising:

outputting the at least one user-specified procedure to the user via email, text message, smartphone widget, smartphone notification, or telephone message.

134-135. -135. (canceled)

136. The method of claim 75, wherein outputting at least one user-specified procedure comprises:

outputting a notification that includes a procedure link, further comprising;

outputting the at least one user-specified procedure in response to user selection of the procedure link.

137. The method of claim 75, wherein outputting at least one user-specified procedure comprises outputting a notification that includes the at least one user-specified procedure in the notification.

138. The method of claim 75,

wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with one of a plurality recipients, the plurality of recipients including the user;

and the method further comprises;

outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the user.

139. The method of claim 75,

wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with one of the plurality of weather conditions;

and the method further comprises;

outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the at least one user-specified weather condition specified by the user-specified weather inquiry.

140. The method of claim 75, wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with a plurality of locations, the plurality of locations including the user-specified location;

and the method further comprises;

outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the user-specified location.

141. The method of claim 75,

wherein the at least one user-specified procedure comprises a plurality of user-specified procedures, each of the user-specified procedures associated with a plurality of user roles, the plurality of user roles including a role associated with the user;

and the method further comprises;

outputting the user-specified procedure associated with the user role associated with the user.

142. The method of claim 75, further comprising:

outputting an acknowledgement link to the user for the user to acknowledge receipt of the procedure;

receiving an acknowledgement in response to user selection of the acknowledgement link; and

storing the acknowledgement,

143. The method of claim 142, further comprising:

storing a plurality of user profiles associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of users including the user; and

outputting an indication of whether or not the acknowledgement of receipt of the procedure was received from the user to a second user via the user interface.

144. The method of claim 75, further comprising:

storing a plurality of user profiles associated with a plurality of users, the plurality of users including the user;

determining if the user is authorized to acknowledge receipt of the procedure based on the user profile associated with the user;

outputting an acknowledgement link to the user for the user to acknowledge receipt of the notification procedure;

receiving an acknowledgement of receipt of the procedure in response to user selection of the acknowledgement link; and

storing the acknowledgement.

144-1. The method of claim 144, further comprising:

outputting an indication of whether or not the acknowledgement of receipt of the procedure was received from the user to the plurality of users via the user interface.

146-148. -148. (canceled)

149. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to:

receive a plurality of weather conditions associated with a plurality of geographic locations;

receive at least one user-specified location and at least one user-specified weather inquiry from a user via a graphical user interface, the user-specified weather inquiry comprising at least one user-specified weather condition of the plurality of weather conditions and a weather-related notification threshold associated with the at least one user-specified weather condition;

store one or more user-specified procedures as well as the user-specified location and the user-specified weather inquiry received from the user via the graphical user interface;

determine if the weather data indicates that the at least one user-specified weather condition is less than, equal to, or greater than the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location; and

output at least one of the user-specified procedures to the user in response to a determination that the weather data indicates that the at least one user-specified weather condition is;

greater than or equal to the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location;

or

less than or equal to the weather-related notification threshold in the user-specified location.