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US 60/596243 00 Sep. 10, 2005

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF DYNAMICALLY ENCODED TEXT-TOSPEECH WEATHER MESSAGES AS VOICE PHONE CALLS Inventor: Mark A. Ross, Ashburn, VA (US)

Correspondence Address: WeatherWave, Inc. 11654 Plaza America Drive, #748 Reston, VA 20190 (US) Appl. No.: Filed: 60/596243 Sep. 10, 2005

ABSTRACT A system is provided for delivering text-to-speech dynamically encoded weather messages as voice telephone calls. The system includes a weather message collection processor, an outbound message processor, an inbound message processor, a subscriber profile management processor, and one or more textto-speech/IVR-enabled call centers. Delivered voice messages contain the complete weather message received, plus system-constructed headers that identify weather type, covered area(s), issuing source and location name, issue time and expire time. The system issues warning messages for both land and marine weather. The system includes a comprehensive, continually updated weather message database that subscribers can call to retrieve current conditions, forecasts, watches, advisories and warnings for all U.S. locations and all U.S. coastal marine zones and buoys. Retrieved messages are delivered as voice calls. The retrieval system can interrogate large, multizone land and marine areas for advisories and warnings. The inquiry system provides subscriberspecific menus and is optimized for telephone numeric keypad entry of land locations, marine zones, and marine buoys. The system includes management of subscriber profiles that specify target phone number(s), locations of interest, weather types of interest, do-not-call periods, and the enabling and disabling of outbound notification messages. The system permits subscriber profiles to be managed from web browsers via the Internet and through telephone keypad entries.

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