Patent ID: 8238870

Claim:
A method for transmitting emergency broadcast message, comprising the following steps: setting an emergency broadcast message transmitting group in a terminal with the capability of receiving an emergency broadcast message directly, and adding a user name and/or a telephone number of a receiving user without the capability of receiving an emergency broadcast message directly of an emergency broadcast message to the emergency broadcast message transmitting group; and the following steps performed by the terminal with the capability of receiving an emergency broadcast message directly: after receiving the emergency broadcast message via a broadcast communication system, extracting the telephone number or the user name from the emergency broadcast message transmitting group, and transmitting the emergency broadcast message in the mode of short message to the receiving user, corresponding to the telephone number or the user name, without the capability of receiving an emergency broadcast message directly, wherein the emergency broadcast transmitting group comprises a list of one or more user names and/or telephone numbers of receiving users without the capability of receiving an emergency broadcast message directly and wherein receiving users not included in the emergency broadcast transmitting group are capable of receiving the emergency broadcast message directly.