Patents by Inventor William Anthony Shelton

William Anthony Shelton 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).

  • System for collecting and presenting real-time weather information on multiple media
    Patent number: 5848378
    Abstract: A computer-based system for collecting and presenting real-time weather information includes a number of automatic weather detecting stations, a centralized database for storing weather data, and a number of presentation software modules for presenting the data to a number of users over a variety of different media. According to specific embodiments, the system includes a presentation module for presenting real-time data via voice messages to telephone callers, a presentation module for presenting data over a television broadcast, a presentation module for presentation data over a multimedia computer network, and a shared interface and local database module for communicating data to and from the weather database and for maintaining a local database of weather data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: The International Weather Network
    Inventors: William Anthony Shelton, William R. Healy, Joseph Francis Earl Jones, Samuel Issac