Patent ID: 7983654
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G08B,H04W

Abstract:
1. An emergency pager alert system configured as a private, stand-alone system for high-speed mass notifications of threat information to a defined population of persons within a defined geographic area, said emergency pager alert system comprising: a monitoring station and an associated plurality of pager devices; a closed private radio network for communicatively coupling each pager device in two-way communication with the monitoring station, said closed private radio network covering the defined geographic area and used for transmitting alert messages from individual ones of the pager devices to the monitoring station, and for broadcasting alert messages from the monitoring station, for substantially simultaneous reception by all pager devices operating within the defined geographic area; each pager device assignable to a given person in the defined population and dedicated for use in the emergency pager alert system, and comprising: wherein said monitoring station includes a computer that is configured to: