Patent ID: 8515385

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a memory to store computer-executable instructions; and a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to perform operations, comprising: updating emergency broadcast information stored in the memory with data from an emergency broadcast information data store using over-the-air programming, wherein the emergency broadcast information identifies a broadcast technology supported by the apparatus and an emergency broadcast channel associated with the broadcast technology; and in response to receipt of an emergency alert indicator bit on a control channel of a telephony network: determining a relevance of an emergency broadcast associated with the emergency alert indicator bit; rendering a notification via a display component of the apparatus based on the relevance, wherein the notification comprises a subset of the emergency broadcast information; automatically tuning the communication device to the emergency broadcast channel specified by the subset of the emergency broadcast information; and storing a record of the emergency broadcast on the memory.