Patent ID: 7752259
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: H04H,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A public service message broadcast system providing a broadcast message to a broadcast target area, the system comprising: a broadcast agent access device configured for receiving broadcast agent input geographically defining the broadcast target area and defining the broadcast message; a carrier broadcast server center configured for receiving the broadcast target area and broadcast message, converting the broadcast target area to network addresses of particular network transmission devices serving the broadcast target area including determining the particular network transmission devices serving at least a portion of the broadcast target area, and identifying the network addresses for each determined particular network transmission device and transmitting the broadcast message and not the broadcast target area to the network addresses of the particular network transmission devices for transmission by the particular network transmission devices to user receiving devices located within the broadcast target area; and a broadcast service bureau communicatively coupled to said carrier broadcast center and said broadcast agent access device, said broadcast service bureau configured for receiving the broadcast agent input including the geographically defined broadcast target area and the broadcast message from the broadcast agent access device and transmitting the broadcast message and the broadcast target area to the carrier broadcast server center, wherein the broadcast service bureau verifies an authority of the broadcast agent to transmit the broadcast message to the broadcast target area as a function of a broadcast message jurisdiction of the broadcast agent including the defined broadcast target area.