Patent ID: 7174005

Claim:
A school-wide emergency digital notification and response system, comprising: a. an administrator interface for preparing and transmitting a message from an administrator to at least one parent contact device and at least one employee contact device, wherein each parent contact device corresponds to a parents in a school, and wherein each a employee contact device corresponds to an employee of the school; b. a dynamic information database for storing the message remote to the school, wherein the dynamic information database comprises: i. parent data comprising: 1. parent user contact device information; and 2. parent priority information that indicates a contact order for the parent contact device; ii. employee data comprising: 1. employee contact device information; and 2. employee priority information that indicates a contact order for the employee contact device; iii. user selected grouping information comprising: 1. at least a first group associated with each parent user contact device; 2. at least a second group associated with each employee user contact device; 3. a parent priority order for contacting each parent user contact device within the first group; and 4. an employee priority order for contacting each employee user contact device within the second group; iv. response data comprising: 1. parent response information indicates which parent contact devices have received the message; 2. employee response information indicates which employee contact devices have received the message; and 3. response information that indicates when insufficient contact device information exists to contact the parent contact device, the employee contact device, or combinations thereof; wherein the administrator initiates distribution of the message using the parent data, employee data, and grouping information, wherein the message is transmitted through at least two industry standard gateways simultaneously, and the message is received by at least one parent contact device and at least one employee contact device, and wherein the at least one parent contact device and at least one employee contact device transmits a response through the industry standard gateways to the dynamic information database.