Patent ID: 8010164

Claim:
A method for delivering an indication of an alert, the method comprising: receiving an indication of an alert for a geographic alert area; determining, via an emergency alert server, cellular sites configured to provide cellular coverage for the alert area; determining, via the emergency alert server and a cell mapping server, geographic areas within the alert area without cellular coverage; determining, of the cellular sites configured to provide cellular coverage for the alert area, cellular sites configured to support broadcast technology; determining broadcast sites configured to provide coverage for the alert area; determining, of the cellular sites configured to provide cellular coverage for the alert area, cellular sites incapable of supporting broadcast technology; broadcasting an indication of the alert via the broadcast sites configured to provide coverage for the alert area; broadcasting an indication of the alert, via a first set of cellular sites configured to: provide cellular coverage for the alert area; and supporting a broadcast technology; and providing a short message service (SMS) based indication of the alert via a second set of cellular sites: configured to provide cellular coverage for the alert area; and incapable of supporting broadcast technology.