Multiple language emergency alert system message

• US 8,832,731 B1
• Filed: 04/03/2007
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cingular Wireless II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sennett, DeWayne Allan, Daly, Brian Kevin
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodarzi, Nasser
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, An
• Application Number:
  US11/695,843
• Time in Patent Office: 2,716 Days
• Field of Search: 725/78, 725/81, 725/143, 725/33, 725/20, 725/134, 725/142, 725/133, 725/32, 725/40, 725/23, 725/46, 384/6, 384/9, 379/88.01
• US Class Current: 725/33
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

An Emergency Alert System (EAS) alert message is distributed in multiple languages. The multiple language EAS alert message can be provided via a single channel and/or multiple channels. The multiple language EAS alert message can be provided with a language vector indicating the languages provided and the location of respective language specific EAS alert messages. A mobile device receiving the multiple language EAS alert message, selects a preferred language specific EAS alert message and renders the EAS alert message in the preferred language.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a multiple language message including a plurality of messages, each message of the plurality of messages being in a different language;

analyzing the multiple language message to determine a respective language of each message of the plurality of messages;

generating a language vector based on the analysis of the multiple language message, the language vector comprising;

a plurality of language indicators, each language indicator denoting the respective determined language of a corresponding one of the plurality of messages; and

a plurality of location indicators, each location indicator associated with a respective one of the plurality of language indicators, wherein each location indicator denotes a location of a corresponding one of the plurality of messages;

broadcasting a wireless emergency alert system alert message in a default language, the wireless emergency alert system alert message comprising the language vector; and

subsequent from the previously broadcasted wireless emergency alert system alert message comprising the language vector, broadcasting the multiple language message based on a preferred language associated with a mobile device.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising selecting a single channel for broadcasting the multiple language message.

3. A method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the plurality of messages is interleaved in the single channel.

4. A method in accordance with claim 3, wherein each location indicator denotes a respective location of a corresponding one of the plurality of messages within the single channel.

5. A method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising selecting a plurality of channels for broadcasting the multiple language message, wherein the step of broadcasting the multiple language message comprises broadcasting each of the plurality of messages via a respective one of the plurality of channels.

6. A method in accordance with claim 5, wherein each location indicator denotes a respective one of the plurality of channels that carries a corresponding one of the plurality of messages.

7. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the language vector further comprises an indication of message type.

8. A server comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising;

receive a multiple language message including a plurality of messages, each message of the plurality of messages being in a different language;

analyze the multiple language message to determine a respective language of each message of the plurality of messages;

generate a language vector based on the analysis of the multiple language message, the language vector comprising;

a plurality of language indicators, each language indicator denoting the respective determined language of a corresponding one of the plurality of messages; and

a plurality of location indicators, each location indicator associated with a respective one of the plurality of language indicators, wherein each location indicator denotes a location of a corresponding one of the plurality of messages;

broadcasting a wireless emergency alert system alert message in a default language, the wireless emergency alert system alert message comprising the language vector; and

subsequent from the previously broadcasted wireless emergency alert system alert message comprising the language vector, broadcasting the multiple language message based on the preferred language associated with a mobile device.

9. A server in accordance with claim 8, further configured to designate a single channel for broadcasting the multiple language message.

10. A server in accordance with claim 9, wherein the plurality of language messages is interleaved in the designated single channel.

11. A server in accordance with claim 10, wherein each location indicator denotes a respective location of a corresponding one of the plurality of messages within the single channel.

12. A server in accordance with claim 8, further configured to designate a plurality of channels for broadcasting the multiple language message, wherein each language specific message is designated for broadcast via a respective one of the plurality of channels.

13. A server in accordance with claim 12, wherein each location indicator denotes a respective one of the plurality channels that carries a corresponding one of the plurality of messages.

14. A server in accordance with claim 8, wherein the language vector further comprises an indication of message type.

15. A server in accordance with claim 8, wherein the multiple language message comprises an Emergency Alert System alert message.

16. A mobile device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising;

receive a first transmission comprising a wireless emergency alert system alert message in a default language, the wireless emergency alert system alert message comprising a language vector associated with a multiple language message;

receive, subsequent to receipt of the first transmission, based on a preferred rendering language associated with the mobile device, a second transmission that is separate from the first transmission, the second transmission comprising the multiple language message, the multiple language message including a plurality of messages, each message of the plurality of messages being in a different language;

retrieve the preferred rendering language for the mobile device;

determine, utilizing the language vector, a location of a preferred message of the plurality of messages, wherein the preferred message comprises a message in a particular language that corresponds to the preferred rendering language;

retrieve the preferred message from the determined location; and

render the preferred message on the mobile device.

17. A mobile device in accordance with claim 16, wherein the multiple language message is received via broadcast over a single channel, the plurality of language messages interleaved in the single channel.

18. A mobile device in accordance with claim 16, wherein the multiple language message is received via broadcast over a plurality of channels, each message of the plurality of messages broadcast via a respective one of the plurality of channels.

19. A mobile device in accordance with claim 16, wherein the language vector comprises:

a plurality of language indicators, each language indicator denoting a respective particular language of a corresponding one of the language specific messages; and

a plurality of location indicators, each location indicator associated with a respective one of the plurality of language indicators, wherein each location indicator denotes a location of a corresponding one of the plurality of messages.