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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2011
James T. Johnson, Norman, OK (US);
Mark Taylor, Marietta, GA (US);
William Todd Daniell, Kennesaw, GA (US);
Michael D. Eilts, Norman, OK (US);
Sheetal Wrzesien, Smyrna, GA (US);
Charles Barrere, Norman, OK (US);
James T. Johnson, Norman, OK (US);
Mark Taylor, Marietta, GA (US);
William Todd Daniell, Kennesaw, GA (US);
Michael D. Eilts, Norman, OK (US);
Sheetal Wrzesien, Smyrna, GA (US);
Charles Barrere, Norman, OK (US);
Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK (US);
Abstract
A method, system, apparatus, and device provides alert information to a user of a device. In response to an alert notification of an alert, one or more alert geographical tiles of interest that are affected by the alert of a plurality of geographical tiles are determined; one or more location-enabled devices each having a location that falls within an alert geographical tile of the one or more alert geographical tiles are determined; a portion of the alert is retrieved from an alert database and processed to generate a media version of the alert; an alert text notification of the alert having the text portion of the alert, an alert identifier of the alert, a reference identifier for the media version of the alert, the one or more alert geographical tiles, and the one or more one or more device identifiers for each of the one or more devices is constructed; the one or more device identifiers for each of the one or more devices, the alert text notification and the alert identifier of the alert is retrieved and the alert text notification is transmitted to the one or more devices corresponding to the retrieved one or more device identifiers.