Patent ID: 8599013
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G08B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for distributing weather information to remote users, the remote users having unknown specific geographic locations comprising a computer system configured with processor readable instructions to: (a) receive and process meteorological data related to a geographic area to, (b) identify, if the presence of meteorological threshold data is affirmatively determined, one or more cellular telephone transmitters having a geographical communications range that overlaps with the geographical location of the grid cells having meteorological threshold reporting data, (c) derive a weather data message specific to the identified cellular telephone transmitter from the threshold meteorological reporting data for the grid cells having a geographic location that overlaps with the communications range of the identified cellular telephone transmitter; (d) transmit the weather data message to the identified cellular telephone transmitter for transmission to all remote users within the communications range of the determined cellular telephone transmitter, wherein said remote users have unknown geographic locations within the communications range.