Emergency Alert Representation

A method comprising:

• receiving an emergency alert at service provider equipment, the emergency alert including information identifying an emergency and information identifying an affected area, wherein the emergency is relevant to the affected location;
• generating first information representing a map to be displayed based upon the information identifying the affected location, wherein the first information is automatically;
• receiving a request from customer premises equipment to send the first information associated with the video stream channel;
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• transmitting the first information in response to the request from the customer premises equipment, wherein the first information is for display at a display device as video.

An device comprising:

• an emergency alert detect module of service provider equipment to determine if an emergency alert message has been received, the emergency alert message including information identifying an affected area affected by an emergency;
• an image generation module comprising an input coupled to the emergency detect module, and, in response to the emergency detect module determining an emergency alert message has been received, the image generation module to receive the information identifying the affected area, and to generate information representing a map to be displayed at a display device that is based upon the information identifying the affected area;
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• a switch module to receive a request from a first customer premises equipment to provide the information identifying the affected area, where the switch module is to provide a data stream including information representing the map in response to the request from the customer premises equipment.

A device comprising:

• an emergency alert detect module located at a service provider premises to determine if an emergency alert message has been received, the emergency alert message including information identifying an affected area affected by an emergency;
• an image generation module comprising an input coupled to the emergency detect module, and, in response to the emergency detect module determining an emergency alert message has been received, the image generation module to receive the information identifying the affected area, and to generate information representing a map to be displayed at a display device that is based upon the information identifying the affected area;
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• a switch module comprising an input coupled to the image generation module to transmit the information representing the map to customer premises equipment for display as an overlay image.

A computer readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions to manipulate a processor, the plurality of instructions comprising:

• instructions to generate first information representing a map to be displayed based upon received emergency alert information identifying an affected location;
• instructions to determine the customer premises equipment at service provider equipment based upon the information identifying the affected location;
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• instructions to transmit the first information from the service provider equipment to customer premises equipment for display at a display device as overlay video.