Customized Weather Alerts Using Policy-Based Event Relevance

Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional weather notifications are often not useful or contain irrelevant information, failing to provide timely and relevant alerts that allow users to take proactive measures against impending weather events.

Innovation Solution

A weather alert computer system that generates customized notifications based on weather data and user-specific policies, determining relevant weather events and automatically initiating actions to mitigate their impact, using processors, sensors, and communication devices to deliver timely and relevant alerts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If conventional weather notification systems are used, then users receive general weather alerts, but the notifications contain irrelevant information and are not useful to the individual

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverelevance of weather informationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments weather information delivery by dividing users into different groups based on their policy types and characteristics. Each segment receives customized notifications tailored to their specific needs, such as farmers receiving crop-specific weather alerts or construction workers receiving job-site specific alerts, thereby eliminating irrelevant information while maintaining system manageability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and analyzing user policy information in advance before weather events occur. This pre-processing of user data enables the system to automatically filter and customize weather notifications based on each user's specific policy coverage, ensuring relevant information is delivered without requiring complex real-time processing during weather events

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If customized weather alerts are generated using user policy information, then notification relevance is improved, but processing requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverelevance of weather informationVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and analyzing user policy information in advance before weather events occur. This pre-processing of user data enables the system to automatically filter and customize weather notifications based on each user's specific policy coverage, ensuring relevant information is delivered without requiring complex real-time processing during weather events

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified copies or representations of user policy profiles that can be quickly matched against weather event data. Instead of processing complete policy documents each time, the system uses pre-extracted key policy attributes and criteria as lightweight copies that enable rapid customization of weather alerts with minimal computational overhead

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Device complexity

If general weather notifications are sent to all users, then system operation is simple, but computing resources are wasted on delivering irrelevant alerts

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidcomputing resource waste

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments weather information delivery by dividing users into different groups based on their policy types and characteristics. Each segment receives customized notifications tailored to their specific needs, such as farmers receiving crop-specific weather alerts or construction workers receiving job-site specific alerts, thereby eliminating irrelevant information while maintaining system manageability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service by automatically matching weather events with relevant users based on pre-stored policy information. The system autonomously filters and delivers customized notifications without requiring manual intervention or complex real-time decision-making, reducing both system complexity and resource waste from irrelevant broadcasts

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20260010966A1Systems and methods for customized weather alerting

Publication Date: 2026.01.08 STATE FARM MUTAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY

AI summary

A system for generating customized alerts for a user may (1) receive weather data from a database; (2) determine, from the weather data, weather conditions indicative of a predicted weather event beginning within a predefined time period; (3) receive a location of the user; (4) receive information relating to one or more protection policies of the user; (5) determine that the predicted weather event is relevant to the user based upon the location of the user and the information relating to the one or more protection policies of the user for protecting at least one of the user or property of the user; and (6) automatically initiate an action to mitigate a potential impact of the predicted weather event on the user responsive to the determination that the predicted weather event is relevant to the user.