Patent ID: 8798574

Claim:
An information broadcasting system for broadcasting information to subscribed communications devices of the system, the system including: a receiving module configured to receive information from a monitoring authority; a transmitting module, operatively coupled to the receiving module configured to receive the information from the receiving module and to generate a Cell Broadcast Short Message (CBS) message, wherein the CBS message comprises coded data associated with the received information that is to be relayed to the subscribed communications devices in at least one pre-selected geographical location, wherein the coded data is configured to correspond with information components stored on the subscribed communications devices and the coded data is configured to identify a plurality of specific groups subscribed communications devices, wherein the subscribed communications devices of the plurality of specific groups are configured to generate, in response to the CBS message, notifications corresponding to information components stored on the subscribed communications devices of the plurality of specific groups, while the other subscribed communications devices do not.