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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Leonardo Velazquez, Plano, IL (US);
James Ford, San Antonio, TX (US);
Leonardo Velazquez, Plano, IL (US);
James Ford, San Antonio, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for distributing emergency alert audio data, the method including but not limited to receiving emergency alert message (EAM) data at an encoder/decoder in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system; sending the EAM to an emergency alert control (EAC) server in the IPTV system; verifying at the EAC that a valid audio message is received in the EAM; if the EAM contains an audio file, creating a MP3 audio file from or another acceptable format for the audio file; and if the received EAM is a state/local alert, placing the EAM in first-in-first-out order in a message delivery queue for delivery to end user devices in the order of the message delivery queue, else, if a streaming playback of state/local alert message is in progress, suspending the streaming playback of the state/local alert message, and continuously streaming the received EAM to end user device in the IPTV system.