Interactive weather advisory system
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 comprises a user input database, a communicator location database, a weather analysis unit, and a communication network. The user input database contains a plurality of predefined user profiles. Each user profile includes a user identifier code. The communicator location database contains real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices. The weather analysis unit compares the spatial locations of the corresponding communicator devices contained in the communicator location database with real-time weather data to generate individualized weather output signals. The communication network receives the user identifier codes and the individualized weather output signals. The communication network transmits each individualized weather warning signal to the particular communicator device identified by the user identifier code in the predefined user profile.
1. A broadcast network for selectively transmitting individualized weather warning signals to a plurality of communicator devices remotely located from the broadcast network, the broadcast network comprising:
a user input database containing a plurality of predefined user profiles, the predefined user profiles each 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 comparing the spatial locations of the communicator device with the real-time weather data so as to generate individualized weather warning signals; and
a communication network receiving the user identifier codes in the predefined user profiles and transmitting each individualized weather warning signal to the particular communicator device identified by the user identifier code in the predefined user profile.
2. The broadcast network of claim 1 wherein the communication network transmits individualized weather warning signals to the particular communicator device via a mobile telephone network.
3. The broadcast network of claim 2 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identifies a mobile phone.
4. The broadcast network of claim 2 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identifies a pager.
5. The broadcast network of claim 2 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identifies a laptop computer.
6. The broadcast network of claim 2 wherein at least one of the user identifier codes identify a personal digital assistant.
7. The broadcast network of claim 1 wherein the weather analysis unit generates the individualized weather warning signals upon demand of the user.
8. The broadcast network of claim 1 wherein the predefined user profile includes a spatial range identifier.
9. The broadcast network of claim 8 wherein the spatial ranges identified by the spatial range identifiers, and the real-time location data are three-dimensional.
10. The broadcast network of claim 8 wherein the weather analysis unit compares the real-time weather data with the spatial ranges identified by the spatial range identifiers to generate individualized forecast models used for generating the individualized weather warning signals.
11. The broadcast network of claim 1 wherein the weather analysis unit compares the real-time weather data with the predefined user profiles to generate individualized forecast models used for generating the individualized weather warning signals.