Patent ID: 8285883

Claim:
A host device comprising: a network connection configured to communicate with a first device connected to said network, said first device being a network routing device and having a volatile memory storage; and a controller configured to perform a method comprising: connecting to said first device over said network, said first device having geophysical location information; receiving said geophysical location information about said first device; determining a set of software settings for said first device based on said geophysical location; transmitting said set of software settings to said host device from said first device; causing said first device to store at least a portion of said software settings in said volatile memory storage such that when power is removed from said first device, said portion of said software settings are erased from said volatile memory storage; determining wherein said method is performed in response to a localized emergency; determining a boundary for said localized emergency determining that said first device is within said boundary; and determining at least one software setting for said first device based on said localized emergency and said boundary.