Patent ID: 8880019

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, by a processor, an emergency alert message, the emergency alert message comprising: an alert profile portion indicative of alert type information, the alert profile portion comprising: a message identification attribute comprising a unique message identifier; a message status attribute indicating a status of the message comprising at least one of exercise, system, or test; a message type attribute indicating a type of alert message comprising at least one of alert, update, cancel, error, and acknowledgement; an associated message identification attribute comprising an identifier of a previous associated message alert; an emergency alert system (EAS) sender attribute indicating a sender of the message; an alert creation timestamp attribute indicating a time of generation of the message; an alert expiration timestamp attribute indicating a time of expiration of the message; a presidential alert indicator attribute indicating whether the message is a Presidential level alert message; a wireless alert message category attribute comprising an associated wireless alert message category; an alert urgency attribute indicating an urgency of the alert message comprising at least one of immediate or expected; an alert severity attribute indicating a severity of the alert message comprising at least one of extreme or severe; an alert certainty attribute indicating a certainty of the alert message comprising at least one of observed or likely; an alert area attribute indicating an emergency alert area; the alert information attribute comprising a description of the emergency alert; and a gateway to wireless network security attribute indicating a security function between an EAS gateway and a wireless operator network; and a technology profile portion indicative of information relating to a technology for providing the emergency alert message, the technology profile portion comprising a text attribute portion, an audio attribute portion, an in-band video attribute portion, an out-of-band video/multimedia attribute portion, and a multimedia attribute portion.