Patent ID: 8745655

Claim:
A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising: streaming, by the one or more computing devices, first video content over an Internet Protocol (IP) network to a portable device; determining, by the one or more computing devices, an indication of a location of the portable device; determining, by the one or more computing devices, whether the location of the portable device is in a geographic region covered by an emergency alert system (EAS) broadcast; determining, by the one or more computing devices, whether the first video content being streamed to the portable device includes content that is exempt from the EAS broadcast; transmitting, by the one or more computing devices, in response to determining that the portable device is in the geographic region covered by the EAS broadcast and in response to determining that the first video content being streamed includes content that is not exempt from the EAS broadcast, a notification to the portable device, the notification instructing the portable device to interrupt the first video content with video content corresponding to the EAS broadcast; streaming, by the one or more computing devices, the video content corresponding to the EAS broadcast to the portable device, wherein the video content of the EAS broadcast comprises a plurality of separately encoded sections, and wherein each of the plurality of separately encoded sections is encrypted with a different key.