INTERACTIVE ADVISORY SYSTEM

• US 20140137644A1
• Filed: 11/06/2013
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Locator IP LP
• Original Assignee: Locator IP LP
• Inventors: ROOT, Steven A., Root, Michael R.
• Granted Patent: US 11,150,378 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/170.16
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/00 Meteorology
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration

Abstract

A method of generating individualized real-time weather and environmental information, including receiving weather or environmental condition data from weather and environmental sensors, analyzing the data received from the sensors to generate weather and environmental information, and transmitting the information to a communicator device. The method may include determining a spatial range of a sensor and/or determining if a communicator device is within close proximity of a sensor. The sensors may be mounted in fixed locations along a roadway or a railway. The sensors may be approximately equidistant.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method of generating real-time weather and environmental information for a user, wherein a user database stores a plurality of user profiles and at least two of the user profiles contain information about communicator devices and designated locations of predetermined weather and environmental sensors associated with the designated locations, the method comprising:

determining a spatial range of at least one of the pre-determined weather and environmental sensors;

analyzing, by analyzing means, weather and environmental data stored in a database as well as sensor data received from the pre-determined weather and environmental sensors specified in a user profile for a user to generate weather and environmental information for the user; and

transmitting, by transmitting means, the weather and environmental information to a communicator device specified in the user profile for the user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the spatial range is determined based on a type of weather and environmental information to be monitored by the at least one pre-determined weather and environmental sensor.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the spatial range is determined based on a sensor type of the at least one pre-determined weather and environmental sensor [0068].

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the spatial range is determined based on a distance between predetermined weather and environmental sensors [0068].

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the user profile includes information indicative of the type of weather and environmental information to be monitored by the pre-determined weather and environmental sensors.

14. A method comprising:

receiving, by a weather analysis unit, weather or environmental condition information from weather and environmental sensors mounted in various fixed locations along a roadway or railway;

analyzing, by the weather analysis unit, the weather or environmental condition data received from the sensors to generate weather and environmental information;

determining one or more communicator devices located in close proximity to the location of the sensors according to user profiles stored in a database, where each of the user profiles contain information about at least one communicator device; and

transmitting, by transmitting means, the weather and environmental information to the determined at least one communicator device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the weather and environmental sensors are approximately equidistant.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the weather and environmental sensors is mounted on a billboard, a gas pump, a tower for cell phone communication, or a structure supporting a light.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the weather and environmental sensors is mounted on a vehicle.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the weather and environmental sensors is mounted on a billboard.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the weather and environmental sensors is mounted on a gas pump at a gas station.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein at least one of the weather and environmental sensors on a tower for cell phone communication.

21. A method comprising:

receiving, by a weather analysis unit, weather or environmental condition information from weather and environmental sensors mounted in various locations along a roadway or railway, wherein the weather and environmental sensors are approximately equidistant;

analyzing, by the weather analysis unit, the weather or environmental condition data received from the sensors to generate weather and environmental information;

determining one or more communicator devices located in close proximity to the location of the sensors according to user profiles stored in a database, where each of the user profiles contain information about at least one communicator device; and

transmitting, by transmitting means, the weather and environmental information to the determined at least one communicator device.