Patent ID: 9390615
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G08B,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method to alert a plurality of phones currently located within a given geographic region, comprising: receiving an emergency alert message passed to a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) positioning center (VPC) in communication with at least one automatic location identification (ALI) database; receiving, at said VPC, a given geographic region to be alerted; determining a target plurality of destination phones to be contacted based on a match of a digitally stored current location of each of a plurality of VoIP phones in said VPC, to said given geographic region; passing, from said VPC, said emergency alert message to those of said target plurality of destination phones determined to have a digitally stored current location that is within said given geographic region; and retrying an unsuccessful attempt to pass said emergency alert VoIP data to any given one of said target plurality of destination phones.