Determining personal outdoor comfort with individual and environmental parameters
AssigneeWeathervane Labs, LLC
InventorsBrian Smoliak, Jason Smoliak
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Abstract
Devices and systems for determining personal outdoor comfort are described herein. One device includes instructions executable to receive inputs corresponding to characteristics of a user associated with a mobile device, determine a location of the mobile device, communicate an indication of the characteristics and the determined location to a computing device, and receive an outdoor comfort determination from the computing device, wherein the outdoor comfort determination is particular to the user based on the characteristics of the user and particular to the location of the mobile device based on a plurality of environmental parameters associated with the location of the mobile device.
Claims20
A mobile device, comprising:
- a processing resource;
- and
- a memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processing resource, cause the processing resource to:
- receive inputs, via an interface of the mobile device, corresponding to a plurality of characteristics of a user;
- determine a location of the mobile device;
- communicate an indication of the characteristics and the determined location to a computing device;
- and
- receive a personalized likelihood of comfort in outdoor environmental conditions from the computing device, the personalized likelihood communicating a determination, made by the computing device, of how likely the user is to be comfortable in outdoor environmental conditions via a particular unitless numeric value selected from an index, the index including a maximum value corresponding to comfort and a minimum value corresponding to discomfort, wherein the particular unitless numeric value is selected based on the characteristics of the user and a plurality of environmental parameters associated with the location of the mobile device.
A computing device for determining personal outdoor comfort, comprising:
- a processing resource;
- and
- a memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processing resource, cause the processing resource to:
- receive indications of inputs made via an interface of a mobile device corresponding to a plurality of characteristics personal to a user;
- create an outdoor comfort profile associated with a user based on the plurality of characteristics personal to the user;
- determine a respective value for each of a plurality of outdoor environmental parameters local to a mobile device associated with the user and information received from an external entity;
- determine a likelihood that the user would be comfortable in outdoor environmental conditions based on the values of the parameters and the outdoor comfort profile, the likelihood represented by a unitless numeric value;
- and
- communicate the determined likelihood that the user would be comfortable in outdoor environmental conditions to the mobile device.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processing resource, cause the processing resource to:
- receive indications of a plurality of characteristics of a user associated with a mobile device based on inputs made into an interface, wherein the plurality of characteristics includes an activity intended to be performed by the user and a clothing characteristic associated with the user;
- create an outdoor comfort profile associated with the user based on the characteristics;
- receive an indication of a location of the mobile device;
- determine a respective value for each of a plurality of parameters related to outdoor comfort at the location of the mobile device;
- determine an outdoor comfort level particular to the user at the location of the mobile device based on the values of the parameters and the outdoor comfort profile;
- communicate the determined outdoor comfort level to the mobile device;
- receive, from the mobile device, an indication of a user evaluation of the determined outdoor comfort level;
- and
- modify the outdoor comfort profile associated with the user based on the user evaluation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.