Technique for creating, directing, storing, and automatically delivering a message to an intended recipient based on climatic conditions
AssigneeFrance Telecom
InventorJonathan Orwant
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for identifying likely future locations of a person and transmitting notifications to the person about climatic conditions. More specifically, it relates to a technique for consulting sources of information about the object's motion in combination with weather forecasts to determine whether to transmit a message to the person with an alert about the forecast.
Claims22
A method for delivering personalized weather forecasts to a person, comprising:
- obtaining information about a current location of the person;
- obtaining information about likely future locations of the person;
- obtaining weather forecasts corresponding to those locations;
- ranking weather forecasts for delivery according to their importance to the person;
- and
- delivering the forecasts to the person.
A method for processing information pertaining to the schedule of a person, comprising:
- retrieving the schedule files from a server;
- parsing and tokenizing the schedule files;
- finding addresses within the events;
- geocoding the addresses.
A method for computing a likelihood of a person's arrival at specific locations, comprising:
- estimating probabilities for each location;
- and
- storing the probabilities locally.
A method for estimating probabilities of a person's arrival at specific locations, comprising:
- computing chronologically consistent paths;
- obtaining probability vectors each assigned to a consistent path;
- obtaining overall path probabilities;
- and
- deducing location probabilities from probability vectors and overall path probabilities.
A method for ranking an importance of weather forecasts for a person, comprising:
- measuring the clemency of the weather forecast;
- quantifying a change in weather between locations;
- and
- integrating a probability of the person's arrival at the location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.