EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING PREEMPTION OF ACTIVE MEDIA SESSIONS
First Claim
1. A media proxy for disseminating emergency media content during an emergency to end-user devices currently engaged in active media sessions in a service provider'"'"'s network, wherein the media proxy receives media feeds from media content sources and provides active media feeds to respective end-user devices, the media proxy comprising:
- means for receiving an emergency notification from an emergency notification server;
means, responsive to the emergency notification, for interrupting the active media feeds; and
means for causing emergency media content to be disseminated to the end-user devices.
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Abstract
A Media Proxy, method, and Emergency Notification Service (ENS) system for providing emergency media content during an emergency to end-user devices currently engaged in active media sessions in a service provider'"'"'s wireless or wireline network. The Media Proxy interrupts all currently active media sessions of all users located in the geographic area of an active emergency and inserts relevant emergency data such as detailed broadcast video or audio alerts by replacing the media in the currently active session with the emergency data.
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24 Claims
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1. A media proxy for disseminating emergency media content during an emergency to end-user devices currently engaged in active media sessions in a service provider'"'"'s network, wherein the media proxy receives media feeds from media content sources and provides active media feeds to respective end-user devices, the media proxy comprising:
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means for receiving an emergency notification from an emergency notification server; means, responsive to the emergency notification, for interrupting the active media feeds; and means for causing emergency media content to be disseminated to the end-user devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of disseminating emergency media content during an emergency to end-user devices currently engaged in active media sessions in a service provider'"'"'s network, wherein the end-user devices receive active media feeds from media content sources via a media proxy, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving in the media proxy, an emergency notification from an emergency notification server; and in response to the emergency notification; interrupting the active media feeds by the media proxy; and causing emergency media content to be disseminated to the end-user devices. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An Emergency Notification Service (ENS) system for disseminating emergency media content during an emergency to end-user devices currently engaged in active media sessions in a service provider'"'"'s network, the ENS system comprising:
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an ENS Server for outputting an emergency notification; a media proxy that receives media feeds from media content sources and provides active media feeds to respective end-user devices, the media proxy comprising; means for receiving the emergency notification from the ENS Server; means, responsive to the emergency notification, for interrupting the active media feeds; and means for causing emergency media content to be disseminated to the end-user devices. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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