Patent ID: 8554169

Claim:
A system comprising: a commercial mobile service provider (CMSP) gateway configured to communicate with an alert gateway, wherein the CMSP gateway includes a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) interface that is configured to: receive an emergency alert message from the alert gateway, the emergency alert message including a plurality of elements that have been mapped from a corresponding emergency alert message issued by an alert initiator; process the emergency alert message into a format suitable for distribution to a plurality of electronic devices via a wireless network; send the emergency alert message to the wireless network for distribution to the plurality of electronic devices; receive, from the alert gateway, a keep alive message comprising an alert attributes segment; based on a status of the CMSP gateway, send a keep alive acknowledgement responsive to the keep alive message; and when there is insufficient storage on the CMSP gateway, send an error condition message to the alert gateway responsive to the keep alive message, the error condition message reporting an error condition.