Patent ID: 9462614
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing group-based emergency notifications and acknowledgments, the method comprising: receiving, at a radio controller, a request to transmit an emergency notification with acknowledgment to an identified target group of subscriber devices; identifying, at the radio controller, one or more base stations actively serving the subscriber devices associated with the identified target group; identifying, at the radio controller and for each of the identified one or more base stations, all active channels across every one of the identified one or more base stations including at least a first active control channel associated with a first one of the identified one or more base stations and a first active voice or data channel associated with the first one of the identified one or more base stations; causing, by the radio controller, an emergency notification outbound signaling packet (OSP), requesting individual acknowledgment and identifying the identified target group of subscriber devices, to be broadcast on the identified all active channels.