Patent ID: 8666358

Claim:
A method for communication, comprising: receiving a Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS) message for an emergency alert; generating a Short Message Service (SMS) teleservice layer delivery message that carries the CMAS message, and wherein a selected field of the delivery message indicates whether a user header data field associated with the CMAS message is included in the teleservice layer delivery message, wherein selected fields of the CMAS message are mapped to a language indicator field, a message delivery call-back field, and a message display mode field of the delivery message, wherein a selected field of the delivery message is set to the time when the CMAS message is received by a SMS message center, wherein a selected field of the delivery message is set to the expiration date and time of the CMAS message, and wherein remaining fields of the CMAS message are carried in the user header data field of the delivery message; and sending the teleservice layer delivery message in an SMS broadcast message to a network entity for broadcasting to wireless devices.