Patent ID: 7953846
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing security alerts to at least one mobile device comprising: receiving at a security message delivery router security data indicative of a category of security alert, the security data received through an alert posting interface, the security message delivery router part of an alert dissemination engine, the alert posting interface for receiving and validating the security data, wherein when the security data is validated an alert key is generated and returned to a provider of the security data, the alert key being a concatenation of a first part provided by the alert posting interface and a second part provided by the alert dissemination engine, the alert key for future operations related to the security data, the future operations including one or more of canceling an alert associated with the security data and generating an alert report; accessing a database comprising a plurality of prerecorded multimedia messages, wherein each prerecorded multimedia message corresponds to a security alert category; matching the received security data to at least one prerecorded multimedia message in the database; customizing the at least one matching prerecorded multimedia message by supplementing said at least one matching prerecorded multimedia message with additional content describing the received security data, the additional content including a security level and a scope of affected systems; associating the received security data with at least one mobile device; determining an address for each of the at least one associated mobile devices; and delivering the at least one matching prerecorded multimedia message to each determined address.