Patent ID: 8510772
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer processor of an alert generation computing system from a user, alert data indicating filters for specified alert types associated with possible future events, wherein said specified alert types comprise primary alert types and secondary alert types; saving, by said computer processor, said alert data; receiving, by said computer processor, monitor definition data indicating primary audio/video monitors and secondary audio/video monitors for broadcasting primary and secondary audio/video data associated with said alert data; receiving, by said computer processor from a plurality of media sources, media generated audio/video data associated with events currently occurring at different geographical locations; first comparing, by said computer processor, said alert data to a first portion of said media generated audio/video data; first determining, by said computer processor based on results of said first comparing, that a first alert type of said specified alert types matches first audio/video data of said first portion of said media generated audio/video data; second determining, by said computer processor based on said results of said first comparing and said monitor definition data, that said first audio/video data comprises a primary event; transmitting, by said computer processor to said user, a first notice indicating that said first alert type matches said first audio/video data and that said first audio/video data comprises a primary event; and broadcasting, by said computer processor for said user on a first primary audio/video monitor of said primary audio/video monitors, said first audio/video data.