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Ski area conditions reporting system

  • US 9,461,761 B1
  • Filed: 02/02/2015
  • Issued: 10/04/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2014
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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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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