Patent ID: 8155671

Claim:
A commercial mobile alert system for processing a broadcast message from a broadcast message originator for delivery to a broadcast target area served by a wireless mobile network using point to multipoint cell broadcasting capability of the wireless mobile telephone network, the system comprising: a broadcast message interface for receiving a broadcast message record including the broadcast target area defined as geographical information, the broadcast message as created by the broadcast message originator, a message type as defined by the broadcast message originator, and broadcast message originator identifier uniquely identifying the broadcast message originator of the broadcast message; and a broadcast control module having a processor, a memory, computer executable instructions, an input interface, an output interface, a validating subsystem and a broadcast message routing subsystem, the input interface communicatively coupled to the broadcast message interface for receiving the broadcast message record, the validating subsystem for validating the broadcast message record as a function of the broadcast message originator identifier and the broadcast target area and for creating a validated broadcast message record, the broadcast message routing subsystem for receiving the validated broadcast message record, identifying two or more message broadcasting network systems, each of which provides wireless mobile point to multipoint broadcast message data transmission service to a geographically defined wireless serving area that includes at least a portion of the broadcast target area, and transmitting the validated broadcast message record over the output interface to one or more of the identified two or more message broadcasting network systems.