Patent Document ID: 9332401
Application ID: 13974151

Base Claim:
1. A method for dynamically translating the public address announcement comprising: maintaining of a listing of mobile devices currently active within a specified geographic area serviced by a public address system by a multi-lingual module, wherein a native language of a mobile device that is different than a language used by the public address system is automatically noted from the mobile device; converting content for an announcement broadcast by the public address system into a format capable of being transmitted via a wireless communications message; translating the converted content to native languages noted in the listing; and pushing the wireless communications message containing the translated content to corresponding mobile devices in the listing and the wireless communications message containing the converted content to a remainder of the mobile devices in the listing via a wireless network local to the specified geographic area, wherein a wireless standard utilized by said wireless network comprises at least one of IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein maintaining the listing further comprises: automatically detecting a presence of the mobile device within the specified geographic area, wherein said detection provides identifying information about the mobile device necessary for establishing a communications pathway to said mobile device; recording the mobile device in the listing; requesting the native language used by the mobile device; and when the native language differs from the language used by the public address system, appending a record for the mobile device in the listing with the native language.