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Systems and methods for delivering personalized storm warning messages

  • US 7,609,819 B1
  • Filed: 07/16/2004
  • Issued: 10/27/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automated system for delivering severe weather warnings to live persons and automated telephone answering machines, comprising:

  • means for forming a subscriber database in a selected geographical region, consisting of names and related telephone numbers to each of the names in the database;

    means for forming a name database of first names of the names of the subscriber database having a greatest frequency of occurrence;

    means for recording individualized first name personalized greeting to the first names having the greatest frequency of occurrence in the subscriber database;

    means for capturing a NWS (National Weather Service) Bulletin reciting a location of a severe storm;

    means for validating a relevant Bulletin into a Valid Bulletin by determining from the storm'"'"'s location and severity that the storm represents an imminent severe storm danger to at least one person of said name database;

    means for combining each of the individualized first name personalized greeting with the Valid Bulletin;

    means for placing a call to persons in the name database, within seconds of the release time of said NWS Bulletin to the danger of the storm;

    means for detecting either an answering machine or a live voice signal from each of said telephone numbers; and

    means for delivering the combined individualized first name personalized greeting followed by the Valid Bulletin to each of the persons in the name database in a nontruncated form, wherein said Valid Bulletin is continuously delivered to both answering machines and to live persons in a nontruncated form.

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