Patent ID: 8126480
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G08G,H04W

Abstract:
1. A Mobile Alerting Network (MAN) central server, including one or more servers, the MAN central server comprising: an alert information manager, configured to receive alert information from an alert information service and, in response to receiving the alert information, to generate an alert area, the alert area defining a dynamic multi-dimensional area highlighting an event of interest included in the alert information; a subscriber manager, configured to communicate with a wireless carrier network in the course of an identification of subscribers of a MAN service in the alert area; a broadcast manager configured to generate a push-to-talk-equivalent alert message based on the event of interest included in the alert information; and a carrier manager, configured to send the generated push-to-talk-equivalent alert message to the wireless carrier network for transmission to mobile communication devices of the identified subscribers of the MAN service.