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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2006
John Mcclenny, San Antonio, TX (US);
Thomas Webster, Mystic, CT (US);
Michael Thomas Raftelis, San Antonio, TX (US);
John McClenny, San Antonio, TX (US);
Thomas Webster, Mystic, CT (US);
Michael Thomas Raftelis, San Antonio, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of communicating emergency alerts. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a multicast emergency alert message at a set-top box device via a multicast-enabled network, where the multicast emergency alert message includes data related to a location code and data related to a set-top box action. The method also includes executing the set-top box action when the location code matches location information stored at the set-top box device.