Ski area conditions reporting system
First Claim
1. A method for sharing a conditions report received from an approved snow rider device, comprising:
- identifying, by one or more hardware processors and via automatic locating functionality, a snow rider device that is located within a pre-defined geo-fence, wherein the pre-defined geo-fence is associated with a ski area boundary and is used to approve the snow rider device as a valid source of conditions reporting;
in response to identifying the snow rider device, enabling one or more condition reporting functions associated with the snow rider device;
determining a location of the snow rider device;
correlating, using a region map associated with the pre-defined geo-fence, the location of the snow rider device with a particular region of a plurality of regions within the region map;
receiving a conditions report from the snow rider device;
recording a time when the conditions report is received;
storing the conditions report in association with the particular region and the time;
causing a selection mechanism to be displayed on another snow rider device to enable a snow rider of the other snow rider device to make a selection without having to provide textual input,receiving, from the other snow rider device, an indication of the selection; and
providing the conditions report to the other snow rider device based at least in part on the received indication of the selection.
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Abstract
The techniques described herein comprise functionality (e.g., an application) that executes on a user device (e.g., a smartphone) and that is used to submit a ski-related conditions report to a remote device (e.g., a server) so that the ski-related conditions report can be shared with others. The remote device may aggregate and organize the ski-related conditions reports received from devices qualified to be within a pre-defined geo-fence so that, upon receiving requests to view the ski-related conditions reports, the ski-related conditions reports can be shared with others. A pre-defined geo-fence may create a virtual perimeter around a real-world geographic area (e.g., a resort ski area). A ski-related conditions report may include information describing at least one of temperature, visibility, wind, snow accumulation, precipitation, surface conditions, an indication of ski crowds, an indication of a length of time for a chair lift wait, and so forth.
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15 Claims
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1. A method for sharing a conditions report received from an approved snow rider device, comprising:
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identifying, by one or more hardware processors and via automatic locating functionality, a snow rider device that is located within a pre-defined geo-fence, wherein the pre-defined geo-fence is associated with a ski area boundary and is used to approve the snow rider device as a valid source of conditions reporting; in response to identifying the snow rider device, enabling one or more condition reporting functions associated with the snow rider device; determining a location of the snow rider device; correlating, using a region map associated with the pre-defined geo-fence, the location of the snow rider device with a particular region of a plurality of regions within the region map; receiving a conditions report from the snow rider device; recording a time when the conditions report is received; storing the conditions report in association with the particular region and the time; causing a selection mechanism to be displayed on another snow rider device to enable a snow rider of the other snow rider device to make a selection without having to provide textual input, receiving, from the other snow rider device, an indication of the selection; and providing the conditions report to the other snow rider device based at least in part on the received indication of the selection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. One or more computing devices configured to share a conditions report received from an approved snow rider device, comprising:
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one or more processors; one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, configure the one or more computing devices to; identify, via automatic locating functionality, a snow rider device that is located within a pre-defined geo-fence, wherein the pre-defined geo-fence is associated with a ski area boundary and is used to approve a snow rider device as a valid source of conditions reporting; in response to identifying the snow rider device, enable one or more condition reporting functions associated with the snow rider device; determine a location of the snow rider device; correlate, using a region map associated with the pre-defined geo-fence, the location of the snow rider device with a particular region of a plurality of regions within the region map; receive a conditions report from the snow rider device; record a time when the conditions report is received; store the conditions report in association with the particular region and the time; cause a selection mechanism to be displayed on another snow rider device to enable a snow rider of the other snow rider device to make a selection without having to provide textual input; receive, from the other snow rider device, an indication of the selection; and provide the conditions report to the other snow rider device based at least in part on the received indication of the selection. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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