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US 11,143,792 B2Granted
Networked personal weather devices and related methods for providing weather information
AssigneeWeatherman, Inc.
InventorsRichard Reichmuth, Jonathan Edward McCottry, II, Ivan Alejandro Herrera Agassini
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Abstract
The formation of dynamic, micro-climate groups consisting of passive and active weather collecting devices is provided. Such devices may collect weather information in real-time. The collected information may be distributed weather information and or forecasts to individuals in a particular geographical area or to other subscribers.
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A system for forming dynamic, micro-climate groups comprising a network server operable to,
- (i) identify a number of passive weather collecting devices capable of passively collecting weather-related information in real-time and paired smartphones capable of actively and passively collecting weather-related information in real-time, wherein each of the passive weather collecting devices are communicatively paired to at least one of the smartphones;
- (ii) form one or more dynamic, micro-climate groups comprising passive devices and paired smartphones from among the identified devices, and
- (iii) distribute the passively and actively collected weather-related information from the one or more, dynamic micro-climate groups or forecasts to individuals in a particular geographical area or to subscribers, and complete weather-related computations based on the passively and actively collected weather-related information from the one or more, dynamic micro-climate groups in conjunction with stored historical information;
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- a plurality of the identified passive weather collecting devices and smartphones, each device operable to collect weather-related information in real-time, wherein each of the passive weather collecting devices are communicatively paired to at least one of the smartphones, and each smartphone is capable of displaying the collected weather-related information to a user of the smartphone.
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A weather-information collection system, the system comprising:
- a passive collection device configured as a part of one or more formed dynamic, micro-climate collection groups, the device comprising a transceiver for communicatively pairing the passive collection device to at least one smartphone that is part of the same formed dynamic, micro-climate collection group as the passive collection device, and transmitting passively collected, weather-related information collected by the passive collection device as part of the formed dynamic micro-climate collection groups to the communicatively paired smartphone;
- at least one smartphone capable of separately, passively and actively collecting weather-related information and displaying the collected weather information to a user of the smartphone.
A weather-information collection system, the system comprising:
- one or more central computing devices operable to,
- form or re-form one or more configurable, micro-climate collection groups, each group comprising at least one or more devices for passively collecting weather-related information and one or more smartphones for passively and actively collecting weather-related information, each of the smartphones communicatively paired with at least one of the devices and capable of displaying the collected weather-related information to a user of the smartphone;
- determine a path of one of the devices or a respective paired smartphone within the formed or re-formed configurable, micro-climate collection group based on geo-spatial information and time information;
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- provide a current or historical weather-related condition for a geospatial position in the path based upon the collected weather-related information from the devices and respective paired smartphones to the one or more paired smartphones for display to a respective user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.