Aviation weather information dissemination system
Patent 4521857 Issued on June 4, 1985. Estimated Expiration Date: 
June 4, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
June 4, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent References 3718906 3723655 3727186 3872438 3909818 3924111 Navigation instrument Electronic navigational computer Automatic vending equipment and credit purchase systems Electronic navigation calculator InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 06/378615 filed on 05/17/1982US Classes:379/88.17, Interaction with an external nontelephone network (e.g., Internet)340/5.91, Including merchandise information display system (e.g., store price display)340/7.48, News information provider (e.g., sports, weather, etc.)342/26D, Ground based (EPO)379/76, Announcement selection or replacement379/93.25, Having remote database (e.g., videotex system)701/120, Traffic analysis or control of aircraft701/202, Route pre-planning702/3WeatherExaminersPrimary: Shaw, Gareth D.Assistant: Malamud, Ronni S. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG01W 1/10 (20060101)AbstractAn aviation weather information dissemination system and method involves regional weather-information accumulating and interpreting stations (12A-O) located throughout a geographic area (10). Each regional weather-information and interpreting station communicates with sources (16, 20 and 24) of current weather information peculiar to widely scattered geographic locations, within the geographic area (10). The system also includes a plurality of terminals which communicate with the regional weather-information accumulating and interpreting stations (12) via telephone lines, with each regional station serving particular terminals (14). The regional stations (12), in response to receiving origin and destination points of flights from said terminals (14), compute tentative flight paths between said origin and destination points and provide weather information to the terminals (14) in particular sequences relative to the origins and destinations.Upon demand, the regional stations (12) provide to the terminals national weather maps, flight path weather data sequenced relative to origin and destination points, destination point radar scans, and computer calculated flight plans. | |
