Patent ID: 7552670

Claim:
In a wireless communication system including a plurality of mobile stations within a service area served by one or more base stations, the base stations adapted to send alert messages to the mobile stations coincident to processing calls directed to the mobile stations, wherein at least a portion of the mobile stations in the service area are configured as triggering devices COT detonating an explosive device responsive to receiving the alert messages, a method comprising: from a mobile platform served by the one or more base stations, receiving indicia of one or more of the mobile stations registered within the service area; and unsolicitedly transmitting one or more alerting signals to at least a portion of the mobile stations registered within the service area, the unsolicited alerting signals, when received by the mobile stations in the service area that are configured as triggering devices, causing premature detonation of the explosive devices associated with the triggering devices, said premature detonation defining detonation that occurs prematurely relative to that which would occur by the mobile stations receiving alert messages from any of the one or more base stations.