Patent ID: 8519860
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: G08B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing alert information to a user of a location-enabled device, comprising: in response to receiving notification of the occurrence of an alert, determining a current location of the device and the device converting the determined current location to a device geographical tile of a plurality of geographical tiles that encompasses the determined current location, wherein each of the plurality of geographical tiles represents a unique geographic projection of a rendered geographical area of defined size and wherein the device geographical tile is represented by a device tile code; processing and storing alert data received about the alert in an alert message event in an alert database that stores a plurality of alerts if it is determined that the device tile code of the device geographical tile matches any of one or more alert geographical tiles that represent the one or more alert geographical tiles that define the alert, wherein each of the one or more alert geographical tiles is represented by one or more alert tile codes, the one or more alert geographical tiles are of the plurality of geographical tiles, and the device geographical tile and each of the one or more alert geographical tiles are the defined size of the plurality of geographical tiles; performing a database query of the alert database to identify one or more alerts stored in the alert database having one or more alert geographical tile codes that match the device tile code representative of the current location of the device and that have not been presented to a user of the device through a user interface of the device, wherein performing the database query comprises searching the alert database for the device tile code; and notifying the user of the device via the user interface of the device of the identified one or more alerts of interest to the current location that have not been presented and prompting the user to view the identified one or more alerts via the user interface of the device.