Patent ID: 8868027

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying a target geographic region for receipt of an alerting message pertaining to an emergent situation; and providing the alerting message, the alerting message comprising an indication of the target geographic region and an indication of the emergent situation, wherein: the alerting message is renderable by a recipient device of the alerting message based on a determination by the recipient device that a location at which the alerting message is received is within the target geographic region; the alerting message is not renderable by the recipient device based on a determination by the recipient device that a location at which the alerting message is received is not within the target geographic region; the alerting message is retransmittable by the recipient device based on a determination by the recipient device that the alerting message has been received at least a predetermined number of times; and the alerting message is not retransmittable by the recipient device based on a determination by the recipient device that the alerting message has not been received at least a predetermined number of times.