Patent ID: 8937542
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: G08B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a portable device, emergency broadcast information, wherein the emergency broadcast information comprises information about available broadcast technologies, information about emergency broadcast channels associated with each available broadcast technology, and information concerning which broadcast technologies or networks are supported by the portable device; storing, by the portable device, the emergency broadcast information in storage of the portable device; receiving, at the portable device an update to the emergency broadcast information, wherein the update to the emergency broadcast information comprises updated information about available broadcast technologies, updated information about emergency broadcast channels associated with each available broadcast technology, and updated information concerning which broadcast technologies or networks are supported by the portable device; storing, by the portable device, the update to the emergency broadcast information in the storage of the portable device; receiving, at the portable device, a user setting, the user setting instructing a broadcast processor of the portable device not to engage in emergency broadcast monitoring; receiving an indication at the portable device that the emergency alert is being broadcast, wherein the telephony network is notified by an emergency alert interface service that the emergency alert is being broadcast using broadcast technologies, wherein the emergency alert interface service is notified by an emergency alert network that an emergency alert is being broadcast, wherein: enforcing user defined settings associated with the portable device by the telephony processor when the indicator bit indicates that the emergency alert is not being broadcast; requesting, by the telephony processor of the portable device, the emergency broadcast information from the storage of the portable device when the indicator bit indicates that the emergency alert is being broadcast; receiving, at the telephony processor, the requested emergency broadcast information from the storage of the portable device; overriding the user defined settings associated with the portable device to enable emergency broadcast monitoring on the portable device by the telephony processor when the indicator bit indicates that the emergency alert is being broadcast; utilizing, by the telephony processor, the stored emergency broadcast information and the update to the emergency broadcast information to tune to a broadcast channel of a broadcast network upon overriding the user defined settings associated with the portable device to enable emergency broadcast monitoring by a broadcast processor; receiving, at the broadcast processor, an emergency broadcast from the emergency alert network; outputting, by the broadcast processor, at least a portion of the emergency broadcast associated with the emergency alert on the portable device; and reverting back to the user defined settings on the portable device after a predefined period of time has expired on the portable device.