US 2007/0184821 A1 · Business process for disseminating pilot weather data by voice

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system is provided for delivering immediate (up to the minute) aviation weather information. A pilot makes a call to a single toll free number and specifies the location he wants to receive weather from. The system and method disambiguates the location and then checks to see if immediate weather data is already available within the system for that location. An informational message tailored to both the pilot and the location may be delivered to the user prior to the weather information. If immediate weather data is already available in the described system, that weather data is communicated to the user via a computer-generated voice. If not, the system and method determines the voice phone number for the Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the specified location, and connects the user by phone directly to the immediate weather information as generated by the AWOS at that location.

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Dependent claims

A weather information system comprising:

a call router capable of coupling an incoming call to a base telephone number with a weather information source;
a database storing tuples that associate an airport identification indicia with at least one source of automated weather information associated with a locale where an airport is located;
a management system coupled to said call router and to said database that operates:
(a) to prompt an incoming caller to supply an airport identification indicia;
(b) to selectively retrieve a source of automated weather information associated with said indicia;
and
(c) to selectively couple an incoming call with said retrieved source of automated weather information so that weather information is provided through the incoming caller's telephone device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/483,694Filed 10 Jul 2006

Priority

31 Oct 2003

Published

9 Aug 2007

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

H04M 3/4936
Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice…
H04M 3/42068
Making use of the calling party identifier: where the identifier is used to access a profile
H04M 3/4872
Arrangements for providing information services, e.g. recorded voice services or time announcements: non-interactive information services
H04M 2242/14
Special services or facilities: with services dependent on location

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Application60/516,160Us provisional application · filed 31 Oct 2003

Application10/978,872Continuation in part · filed 29 Oct 2004

Application11/483,694Continuation in part · filed 10 Jul 2006

US 2005/0094783 A1Published application

US 7,088,241 B2Related patent

US 7,471,196 B2Related patent

US 2007/0184821 A1This patent

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Business process for disseminating pilot weather data by voice

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Business process for disseminating pilot weather data by voice

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Abstract

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