Emergency alert system (EAS) message service profile

• US 8,880,019 B1
• Filed: 08/09/2007
• Issued: 11/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Daly, Brian Kevin, Sennett, DeWayne Allan
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Assistant Examiner(s): MANOHARAN, MUTHUSWAMY GANAPATHY
• Application Number:
  US11/836,473
• Time in Patent Office: 2,644 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.1, 725/33
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895

Abstract

The service profile of an emergency alert system (EAS) message provides an indication of the alert and technology attributes associate with the delivery of the emergency alert message. In an example configuration, the service profile comprises an alert profile and a technology profile. The alert profile contains information pertaining to alert attributes and alert attribute contents. The technology profile contains information pertaining to text attributes, audio attributes, in band video attributes, out of band video/multimode attribute, and/or multimedia attributes.

Claims

1. 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.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert profile portion further comprises at least one of an alert attributes portion or an alert contents attributes portion.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the alert contents attributes portion comprises at least one of a content format attribute, a content language attribute, or an alert contents attribute.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein:

the content format attribute is indicative of a format of the message content comprising at least one of text, audio, video, or multimedia;

the content language attribute is indicative of a language of the emergency alert message; and

the alert contents attribute is indicative of a size and format of the emergency alert message content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the text attribute portion comprises at least one of a size attribute, a delivery technology attribute, a data coding scheme attribute, a retransmission attribute, or a wireless network to mobile handset security attribute.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the size attribute is indicative of a size of the emergency alert message comprising at least one of a maximum number of bytes, a maximum number of segments, and a segment length;

the delivery technology attribute is indicative of a size of a delivery technology for providing the message comprising at least one of a cellular broadcast technology, a multimedia broadcast multicast service technology, a broadcast and multicast services technology, and a paging technology;

the data coding scheme attribute is indicative of a text coding scheme;

the retransmission attribute is indicative of a size of retransmission parameters comprising at least one of frequency, time between retransmissions, total number of retransmissions, and duration of a transmission interval; and

the wireless network to mobile handset security attribute is indicative of at least one of a size and a type of a security function between an EAS gateway and a wireless operator network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio attribute portion comprises at least one of a size attribute, a delivery technology attribute, a data coding scheme attribute, a retransmission attribute, or a wireless network to mobile handset security attribute.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the size attribute is indicative of a size of the emergency alert message comprising at least one of a maximum number of bytes and a maximum length of time;

the delivery technology attribute is indicative of a size of a delivery technology for providing the message comprising at least one of a cellular broadcast technology, a multimedia broadcast multicast service technology, a broadcast and multicast services technology, a Digital Video broadcast-Handheld technology, a MediaFLO, and a National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration Weather Radio technology;

the data coding scheme attribute is indicative of an audio coding scheme;

the retransmission attribute is indicative of a size of retransmission parameters comprising at least one of frequency, time between retransmissions, total number of retransmissions, and duration of a transmission interval; and

the wireless network to mobile handset security attribute is indicative of at least one of a size and a type of a security function between an emergency alert system gateway and a wireless operator network.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the in-band video attribute portion comprises at least one of a size attribute, a delivery technology attribute, a data coding scheme attribute, a retransmission attribute, or a wireless network to mobile handset security attribute.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the size attribute is indicative of a size of the emergency alert message comprising at least one of a maximum number of bytes and a maximum length of time;

the delivery technology attribute is indicative of a size of a delivery technology for providing the message comprising at least one of a cellular broadcast technology, a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) technology and a broadcast and multicast services (BCMCS) technology;

the data coding scheme attribute is indicative of a video coding scheme;

the retransmission attribute is indicative of a size of retransmission parameters comprising at least one of frequency, time between retransmissions, total number of retransmissions, and duration of a transmission interval; and

the wireless network to mobile handset security attribute is indicative of at least one of a size and a type of a security function between an EAS gateway and a wireless operator network.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the out-of-band video/multimedia attribute portion comprises at least one of a size attribute, a delivery technology attribute, a data coding scheme attribute, a retransmission attribute, or an out-of-band video/multimedia wireless network to mobile handset security attribute.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the size attribute is indicative of a size of the message comprising at least one of a maximum number of bytes and a maximum length of time;

the delivery technology attribute is indicative of a size of a delivery technology for providing the message comprising at least one of a cellular broadcast technology, a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) technology, a broadcast and a MediaFLO technology;

the data coding scheme attribute is indicative of a video coding scheme;

the retransmission attribute is indicative of a size of retransmission parameters comprising at least one of frequency, time between retransmissions, total number of retransmissions, and duration of a transmission interval; and

the wireless network to mobile handset security attribute is indicative of at least one of a size and a type of a security function between an EAS gateway and a wireless operator network.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia attribute portion comprises at least one of a size attribute, a delivery technology attribute, a data coding scheme attribute, a retransmission attribute, and a wireless network to mobile handset security attribute.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the size attribute is indicative of a size of the emergency alert message comprising a maximum number of bytes;

the delivery technology attribute is indicative of a size of a delivery technology for providing the message comprising at least one of a cellular broadcast technology, a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) technology and a broadcast and multicast services (BCMCS) technology;

the data coding scheme attribute is indicative of a data coding scheme;

the retransmission attribute is indicative of a size of retransmission parameters comprising at least one of frequency, time between retransmissions, total number of retransmissions, and duration of a transmission interval; and

the wireless network to mobile handset security attribute is indicative of at least one of a size and a type of a security function between an EAS gateway and a wireless operator network.

15. A device comprising:

a processor; and

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

generating an emergency alert message, the emergency alert message comprising;

an 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 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.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the device comprises a mobile device.

17. The device of claim 16, the operations further comprising rendering an indication of the received emergency alert message, wherein the indication of the emergency alert message is at least one of visually rendered, audibly rendered, or mechanically rendered, via the mobile device.

18. A computer readable medium that is not a signal, the computer readable medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising:

generating an emergency alert message, the emergency alert message comprising;

an 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 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.