Patent ID: 6909903
Filing Date: 2005-06-21
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing network-independent location-aware protocol messages to location-aware mobile network devices, comprising: accepting alert information from a plurality of information sources on an information repository, wherein the information repository is in communications with the plurality of information sources via an information network, wherein the alert information is generated from emergency or non-emergency events, and wherein the alert information includes information emergency or non-emergency events for a specific geographic area; formatting the accepted alert information into a network-independent location-aware protocol message, wherein the network-independent location-aware protocol message can be sent to a plurality of different types of location-aware mobile wireless network devices in communications with the plurality of different types of transport networks via a plurality of uniform mobile user network message interfaces associated with the plurality of different types of transport networks; optionally adding additional information to the network-independent location-aware protocol message based on the specific geographic area identified in the alert information, wherein the additional information is dynamically generated from a plurality of databases associated with the information repository; forwarding the network-independent location-aware protocol message to the plurality of different types of transport networks in communications with the plurality of different types of location-aware mobile network devices located in the specific geographic area identified by the alert information, wherein the plurality of different types of transport networks forward the network-independent location-aware message to the plurality of different types of location-aware mobile network devices located in the specific geographic area identified by the alert information via the plurality of uniform mobile user network message interfaces associated with the plurality of different types of transport networks.