Patent ID: 7609819
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An automated system for delivering severe weather warnings to live persons and automated telephone answering machines, comprising: means for forming a subscriber database in a selected geographical region, consisting of names and related telephone numbers to each of the names in the database; means for forming a name database of first names of the names of the subscriber database having a greatest frequency of occurrence; means for recording individualized first name personalized greeting to the first names having the greatest frequency of occurrence in the subscriber database; means for capturing a NWS (National Weather Service) Bulletin reciting a location of a severe storm; means for validating a relevant Bulletin into a Valid Bulletin by determining from the storm's location and severity that the storm represents an imminent severe storm danger to at least one person of said name database; means for combining each of the individualized first name personalized greeting with the Valid Bulletin; means for placing a call to persons in the name database, within seconds of the release time of said NWS Bulletin to the danger of the storm; means for detecting either an answering machine or a live voice signal from each of said telephone numbers; and means for delivering the combined individualized first name personalized greeting followed by the Valid Bulletin to each of the persons in the name database in a nontruncated form, wherein said Valid Bulletin is continuously delivered to both answering machines and to live persons in a nontruncated form.