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US 11,112,533 B2Granted
System for sensor enabled reporting and notification in a distributed network
AssigneeHartford Fire Insurance Company
InventorsEugene T. Smyth, Deborah D. Fox, Roopak Hooda, Kristen Sara Mattson, Kristian L. Sanders
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Abstract
A sensor based system for capturing localized weather data and a server system for communicating with a plurality of reporting and recipient mobile communication devices. The communication devices are enabled to capture additional weather information to supplement the sensor based system.
Claims10
A method for providing a warning system to protect insured property, the method comprising:
- accessing a plurality of devices to acquire weather data, the plurality of devices being spread throughout a geographic area;
- accessing third party weather data;
- compiling the third-party weather data and the device acquired data to determine at least one region of interest associated with the weather;
- correlating the region of threat with insured property to determine property that is endangered by the weather;
- configuring a warning message to ones of the plurality of devices associated with the endangered property;
- and
- transmitting the configured warning message to the ones of the plurality of devices.
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A system for providing a warning system to protect insured property, the system comprising:
- a plurality of devices being spread throughout a geographic area, the plurality of devices acquiring weather data;
- a processing unit, operating in conjunction with an input/output (I/O) device, to access third party weather data and to receive the acquired weather data from the plurality of device;
- the processing unit compiling the third-party weather data and the device acquired data to determine at least one region of interest associated with the weather;
- the processing unit correlating the region of threat with insured property to determine property that is endangered by the weather;
- the processing unit configuring a warning message to ones of the plurality of devices associated with the endangered property;
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- the processing unit, operating in conjunction with the I/O device, transmitting the configured warning message to the ones of the plurality of devices.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.