Everbridge Awards New Public Warning Patent Enabling 5G Multicast Content Distribution for Its Next-Generation Population Alerting Platform Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
January 06, 2021 at 07:30 am EST
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Everbridge, Inc. announced the company received an important new patent related to its world-class Public Warning system, which already serves the entire populations of 11 countries in Europe, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. The patent pertains to a multimedia-capable platform that delivers both traditional text alerts using Cell Broadcast (CB) and multimedia content such as audio, images, and video using Multicast Content Distribution (MCD). Multicast technology builds upon 5G, the emerging wireless standard poised to become the foundation of next-generation mobile networks. The patent was delivered out of work in support of the European Union (EU) funded 5G-Xcast project, which focuses on incorporating broadcast and multicast communication enablers in 5G, in compliance with local regulations and privacy guidelines.
Everbridge, Inc. is a global software company. The Company leverages intelligent automation technology to enable customers to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover from critical events to keep people safe and organizations running. Its software as a service (SaaS)-based platform enables its customers to manage and mitigate critical events. Its enterprise applications, such as Mass Notification, Safety Connection, IT Alerting, Risk Intelligence, Public Warning, Community Engagement, Crisis Management, CareConverge, Control Center, Travel Protector, SnapComms and E911, automate numerous critical event management (CEM) processes. Its solutions enable organizations to automate and deliver intelligent, contextual messages to, and receive verification of delivery from, hundreds of millions of recipients, across multiple communications modalities. It has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway, China, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, France, India and other countries.
Everbridge Awards New Public Warning Patent Enabling 5G Multicast Content Distribution for Its Next-Generation Population Alerting Platform Amid Covid-19 Pandemic