Patents by Inventor Steven A. Root

Steven A. Root has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20030200027
    Abstract: A broadcast network for selectively transmitting individualized weather output signals to at least one of a plurality of communicator devices remotely located from the broadcast network. The broadcast network comprises a user input database, a communicator location database, a weather analysis unit, and a communication network. The user input database contains a plurality of user profiles. At least some of the user profiles contains parameters provided from a pre-defined user profile. Each user profile includes a user identifier code. The communicator location database contains real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices. The weather analysis unit automatically and continuously compares the parameters in the user input database and the spatial locations of the corresponding communicator devices contained in the communicator location database with real-time weather data to generate individualized weather output signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Steven A. Root, Michael R. Root
  • Publication number: 20030125876
    Abstract: A broadcast network for selectively transmitting individualized weather output signals to remote communicator devices. The broadcast network is comprised of a user input database, a communicator location database, a weather information database, a weather analysis unit and a communication network. The user input database contains user-defined parameters and each of the user-defined parameters includes a user profile. The user profile in each of the user-defined parameters utilizes a user identifier code and identifies a communicator device associated with a particular user. The communicator location database contains real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices. The weather information database contains real-time weather data for the spatial locations contained in the communicator location database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Steven A. Root, Michael R. Root
  • Patent number: 6505123
    Abstract: A broadcast network for selectively transmitting individualized weather output signals to remote communicator devices. The broadcast network is comprised of a user input database, a communicator location database, a weather information database, a weather analysis unit and a communication network. The user input database contains user-defined parameters and each of the user-defined parameters includes a spatial range identifier and a user profile. The user profile in each of the user-defined parameters utilizes a user identifier code and identifies a communicator device associated with a particular user. The communicator location database contains real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices. The weather information database contains real-time weather data for the spatial locations contained in the communicator location database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Weatherbank, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Root, Michael R. Root
  • Patent number: 4218755
    Abstract: Weather forecasting apparatus for producing a visual indication of a weather forecast in response to supplied information, with such supplied information including current weather conditions, current wind speed and wind direction, geographical region information, and season of the year information. The apparatus includes a keyboard upon which such information may be entered, encoders for encoding the information, a display section for lighting one of a plurality of lamps to indicate forecasted weather, and read only memory elements having a plurality of memory locations for storing weather forecast data and for supplying the weather forecast data to the display section from memory locations specified by the coded data. Temperature and relative humidity detecting circuitry may also be included in the apparatus for providing a visual indication of the current temperature and current relative humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Inventor: Steven A. Root