Patent ID: 6505123
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: G01W,G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W,Y02A

Abstract:
A broadcast network for selectively transmitting individualized weather output signals to at least one of a plurality of communicator devices remotely located from the broadcast network, the broadcast network comprising:a user input database containing a plurality of user-defined parameters with each of the user-defined parameters including a spatial range identifier and a user profile, the user profile in each of the user-defined parameters including a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user; a communicator location database containing real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices; a weather analysis unit automatically and continuously comparing the spatial range identifiers included in a plurality of the user-defined parameters and the spatial locations of the corresponding communicator devices contained in the communicator location database with the real-time weather data received from a weather information database so as to generate an individualized weather output signal including weather information within the spatial range identified by the spatial range identifier for each user-defined parameter; and a communication network receiving the user identifier codes in the user-defined parameters and the individualized weather output signals, the communication network transmitting each individualized weather output signal to the particular communicator device identified by the user identifier code in the user profile included in the user-defined parameter corresponding with the real-time weather data, whereby each of the individual communicator devices receives only the weather information requested by the user in the user-defined parameters.