Patent ID: 8463943

Claim:
An information distribution method, comprising: receiving a plurality of different formats of all-hazards information from a plurality of information sources, wherein the receiving comprises retrieving all-hazards information through polling one or more of the information sources; processing the different formats of all-hazards information into normalized all-hazards information; and electronically distributing a plurality of all-hazards messages corresponding to the normalized all-hazards information to a plurality of entities, wherein the plurality of the all-hazards messages are distributed in a second plurality of different formats with substantially the same content, and wherein the plurality of the normalized all-hazards messages in the second plurality of different formats are distributed automatically to the plurality of entities, wherein the all-hazards information, the normalized all-hazards information, and the plurality of all-hazards messages each comprise at least one selected from a group consisting of weather information, traffic information, earthquake information, and epidemic information.