Patent ID: 7873344

Claim:
An apparatus for distributing emergency information, comprising: a wireless receiver; a network transceiver configured to communicate on a local area network; and a controller operatively coupled to the wireless receiver and network transceiver; wherein the controller is configured to receive a subscription request from each of a subset of a plurality of devices in data communication with the local area network, wherein the subscription request specifies a format of an alert message; wherein the controller is configured to receive via the wireless receiver a wireless broadcast of an emergency transmission for a specified emergency condition; wherein the controller is configured to determine a policy for responding to the specified emergency condition responsive to receiving the wireless broadcast; wherein the controller is configured to send an alert message addressed to each of the subset of subscribing devices coupled to the local area network via the network transceiver responsive to receiving the wireless broadcast; and wherein each alert message includes data representative of the specified emergency condition and data representative of the policy for responding to the specified emergency condition in the format specified by each of the subset of subscribing devices.