Patent ID: 7184965

Claim:
A weather-based decision system for providing business recommendations based on a set of weather driven demand data, comprising: a confidence level filter configured to assign a first confidence level to data within the set of weather driven demand data based on a probability that a weather element forecast is accurate and a second confidence level to said data within the set of the weather driven demand data based on a strength of a correlation between a product or service being considered and one or more weather elements; an opportunity matrix filter coupled to said confidence level filter and configured to assign an opportunity level to said data within the set of weather driven demand data based upon said first confidence level and said second confidence level; a weather decision point generator coupled to said opportunity matrix filter and configured to identify a weather driven demand data point of said data within the set of the weather driven demand data as a weather decision point; a business rule recommendation engine coupled to said weather decision point generator and configured to provide a business recommendation; and a business rules knowledge database coupled to said business rule recommendation engine and configured to contain business rules; wherein the weather driven demand data indicates how a business activity is influenced by said one or more weather elements.