Patent ID: 7084775
Filing Date: 2006-08-01
Classification: G01W,G08B,H04L,H04W,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for sending location-specific alerts to a plurality of mobile devices having wireless communications capabilities, comprising: receiving at a weather information service, location data for a plurality of mobile devices, wherein each location data substantially uniquely identifies a single mobile device; receiving at the weather information service, meteorological information corresponding to a geographical area in which the plurality of mobile devices are located; determining whether a weather alert should be issued based on the received meteorological information and, if so, determining a geographic boundary of the weather alert; comparing the location data for each of the plurality of mobile devices to the geographic boundary of the weather alert to determine a first set of zero or more mobile devices that are located within the boundary of the weather alert; comparing the weather alert to user profile information corresponding to each mobile device in the first set of mobile devices to determine a second set of zero or more mobile devices whose user profiles indicate that the weather alert should be received by the mobile device; and generating a device specific weather alert for each mobile device in the second set of mobile devices; for each device specific weather alert, sending the device specific weather alert to the mobile device to which the device specific weather alert corresponds.