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Software for providing initiation, distribution, delivery and response tracking of emergency notifications to users via personal communication devices and public mass communication devices; software for supporting exchange of information and collaboration processes amongst organizations and people during emergency and crisis situations; software for the purposes of data collection, monitoring, and mass notification services for managing emergency, and crisis and business critical situations and improving crisis communications capability; software for the secure transmission of mass notification emergency information via audio, video and electronic communications networks and devices, including social networks; software for managing and analyzing data feeds and data inputs in the field of crisis reporting, communication and management, and for sending notifications through multiple IP network channels and delivery services; software for loading data from personnel directories, and managing users for purpose of crisis communication; software for managing organization directories and connections across organizations for the purpose of connecting them and facilitating collaboration before, during and after crisis situations; software for locating personnel for security and safety purposes using a global positioning system, user self-reporting, and other locating means; software for electronically monitoring, detecting and reporting on alarms, alerts, emergencies, hazards, security threats, and dangerous weather; software for notifying individuals and organizations of a changed status or condition of a sensing device or input feed via network based message alerts; downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application for sending, receiving, confirming and responding to alerts, messages, and notifications via wireless communications networks or the Internet; desktop software applications for providing desktop notifications that capture the user's attention with audio-visual signals and allow users to confirm, respond to notifications or receive additional information related to notifications; computer hardware and software communication system enabling users to manage information and data provided to the system and to control the delivery of messages through the system.

Providing secure electronic message alerts via the Internet, global computer and telecommunications networks, and mobile communications devices to deliver emergency notifications and facilitate collaboration amongst individuals and organizations before, during and after critical situations; providing secure mass notification services through all communication devices, telephones, tablets, smartphones, email, text messaging, and instant messaging; providing electronic transmission of data and digital messaging via mobile handheld devices and via wired and wireless communication devices before, during and after critical situations; telecommunications services that enable users and organizations to electronically transmit messages, text, multimedia content, videos, audio, animation and images via a global computer network before, during and after critical situations; providing multiple user access to interactive databases through web sites on a global computer network to manage, administrate and use crisis communication capabilities; providing electronic transmission of converged data, address location information, text, pictures, and streaming media, all for use in crisis communications; providing telecommunication connectivity services for transfer of messages, audio, visual, and data information for crisis communications; secure electronic messaging services, namely, providing services to access, process, and transmit critical, time-sensitive notifications to individuals and organizations.

Design and development of crisis communication systems comprised of computer hardware and software; engineering and systems analysis in the field of crisis communication systems; computer services, namely, providing online system management services that allow users to remotely view, monitor, program, operate and control crisis communication systems; research in the field of crisis communication technology; testing of crisis communication systems; cloud computing featuring software for providing crisis communication through multiple IP network channels and delivery services; computer services, namely, integration of private and public cloud computing environments for crisis communication; computer services, namely, cloud hosting provider services for crisis communication; computer services, namely, installation of software for private cloud computing for crisis communication; consulting services in the field of cloud computing for crisis communication; computer services, namely, creating an online community for registered users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, form virtual communities, invite other organizations to the community and engage collaboration in the field of security and crisis communication and management; software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for use in sending, receiving, confirming and responding to alerts, messages, and notifications in the field of crisis communication and management; software as a service (SaaS) services, namely, hosting software for use by others for use in sending, receiving, confirming and responding to alerts, messages, and notifications in the field of crisis communication and management; providing online non-downloadable computer software for the purposes of data collection, monitoring, and mass notification services for managing emergency and crisis situations and improving crisis communications capability.