Interactive advisory system

• US 8,909,679 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2004
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Locator IP LP
• Original Assignee: Locator IP LP
• Inventors: Root, Steven A., Root, Michael R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Arjomandi, Noosha
• Application Number:
  US10/965,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20050050008A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,708 Days
• Field of Search: 707/104.1, 707/3, 707/4, 707/5, 707/803, 342/357.01, 342/357.06, 342/357.13, 342/26, 342/460, 345/327, 345/328, 348/592, 348/598, 348/599, 340/539, 340/571.3, 340/825.36, 340/825.49, 128/903, 600/300
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/00 Meteorology
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/02 Instruments for indicating weather conditions by measuring two or more variables, e.g. humidity, pressure, temperature, cloud cover or wind speed G01W1/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/10 Devices for predicting weather conditions computers per se G06; display devices G09
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 2203/00 Real-time site-specific personalized weather information, e.g. nowcasting
• 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 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1845 broadcast or multicast in a specific location, e.g. geocast protocols for adapting network applications to user terminal location H04L67/52; services specially adapted for wireless communication networks making use of the location of users or terminals H04W4/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1877 Measures taken prior to transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• 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: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 : Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 : Terminal devices
• 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 method for providing information to a plurality of vendors located remotely from a broadcast network. A plurality of user-defined parameters are received by a user input database with at least one of the user-defined parameters including a user profile. Each of the user profiles includes a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user. Real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices is received by a communicator location database. Search information is received independently from a plurality of vendors and a data set is generated for each vendor.

Claims

1. A method for providing information to a plurality of vendors located remotely from a broadcast network, comprising the steps of:

receiving a plurality of user-defined parameters by a user input database with at least one of the user-defined parameters including a user profile, each of the user profiles including a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user;

receiving real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices by a communicator location database;

receiving search information independently from a plurality of vendors;

generating a data set utilizing the search information for each of the plurality of vendors, each data set including user identifier codes from user profiles other than a user profile associated with the vendor; and

sending advertisements utilizing the user identifier codes to the communicator devices identified in the data sets.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

comparing, automatically and continuously, real-time weather data with the spatial locations of a plurality of communicator devices contained in the communicator location database to generate a plurality of individualized output signals; and

transmitting the individualized output signals to respective communicator devices.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication network transmits individualized output signals to the respective communicator devices via a mobile telephone network.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identifies a mobile phone.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identifies a pager.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identifies a laptop computer.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identifies a personal digital assistant.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of outputting at least one of the generated data sets to at least one of the plurality of vendors.