Patent Document ID: 9386432
Application ID: 13964499
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a request for weather information from a user device, the request associated with location information; retrieving, by the processor, weather data indicative of current weather conditions for at least one locale identified by the location information; identifying, by the processor, an image associated with the locale from an image collection, said identification comprising determining that said image depicts weather conditions that match the retrieved weather data; receiving, by the processor, metadata of the image; when no images associated with the locale are determined to depict weather conditions matching the retrieved weather data: expanding, by the processor, a geographical area associated with the locale; accessing, by the processor, an expanded image collection depicting various weather conditions corresponding to the expanded area associated with the locale; and repeating, by the processor, the expanding and accessing steps until at least one image from the expanded image collection depicting weather conditions that match the retrieved weather data is identified or a threshold condition is met; and transmitting, by the processor, the metadata of the image with the weather data for presentation at the user device.