Patent ID: 9246610
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G01W,G08B,H04H,H04L,H04M,Y02A

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing alert information to a user using weather prediction data, comprising: converting weather prediction data to a tile based tile set, the weather prediction data having information about one or more weather variables in a number of grids for a plurality of geographical locations with each weather variable at a given geographical location represented by a grid for a number of time periods within a weather forecast and the tile based tile set having a plurality of prediction geographical tiles with each prediction geographical tile associated with a location of the plurality of geographical locations and the one or more weather variables for the number of time periods within the weather forecast, each of the plurality of geographical tiles representative of a unique geographic projection of a rendered geographical area of defined size; determining for each time period of the forecast whether any of the one or more weather variables associated with each prediction geographical tile violates a weather variable threshold for the location associated with the prediction geographical tile, the determining performed by comparing for each time period of the forecast each weather variable of the one or more weather variables associated with the prediction geographical tile to the weather variable threshold for the location associated with the prediction geographical tile; generating and communicating by a server over a communications network one or more alerts corresponding to one or more violations of the weather variable thresholds for the locations associated with the prediction geographical tiles; determining whether a device is authorized to receive alert notifications; if the device is not authorized to receive alert notifications, the alert notification server sending to the device a request message requesting tracking of the device for alert notifications; and if the request message is approved, the alert notification server updating the device location database to include the device as a registered device.