Enhanced wireless home phone for an emergency call service network

• US 10,045,189 B2
• Filed: 04/05/2017
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.), AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zermeno, Juan, Gonzalez, Lizbet, Ali, Liaqat, Knittel, Debbie, Dammrose, John Mark, Morris, IV, William S, Davis, Richard Warburton
• Primary Examiner(s): Perez-Gutierrez, Rafael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pannell, Mark G.
• Application Number:
  US15/480,346
• Publication Number:
  US 20170215058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• Field of Search: 4554022
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

An enhanced wireless home phone (WHP) component for use in an emergency call service network is presented herein. A method can include in response to determining that address information representing an address corresponding to a subscriber identity associated with a wireless service has been included in a data store corresponding to an emergency telecommunication service, determining whether a location of a wireless communication device associated with the subscriber identity satisfies a defined condition with respect to a distance of the wireless communication device from the address; and in response to determining that the location of the wireless communication device satisfies the defined condition, and in response to determining that a communication corresponding to the emergency telecommunication service has been received from the wireless communication device, sending the address information directed to a public safety answering point device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

in response to determining, by a system comprising a processor during a validation associated with a point of sale of a user equipment corresponding to a subscriber identity associated with a wireless service, that address information representing an address corresponding to the subscriber identity has not been included in a data store corresponding to an emergency telecommunication service, monitoring, by the system based on a defined monitoring period, whether the address information has been included in the data store; and

in response to the address information being determined not to have been included in the data store, configuring, by the system based on a configuration, a component of the system to send, during the emergency telecommunication service, geographical information representing a location of the user equipment to a public safety answering point device, wherein the geographical information comprises latitude information representative of a latitude and longitude information representative of a longitude.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

based on the configuration, and in response to a communication corresponding to the emergency telecommunication service being determined to have been received from the user equipment, sending, by the system, the geographical information directed to the public safety answering point device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the validation is a first validation, and wherein the method further comprises:

in response to the configuring, determining, by the system during a second validation associated with an activation of the user equipment, whether the address information has been included in the data store.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

in response to determining, during the second validation, that the address information has not been included in the data store, sending, by the system, a message directed to the subscriber identity, wherein the message indicates an inability to provide the address information during the emergency telecommunication service.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

in response to determining, during the second validation, that the address information has been included in the data store, determining, by the system, whether a location of the user equipment satisfies a defined condition with respect to a distance of the user equipment from the address.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the configuring based on the configuration is a first configuring based on a first configuration, and wherein the method further comprises:

in response to determining that the location of the user equipment satisfies the defined condition with respect to the distance of the user equipment from the address, second configuring, by the system based on a second configuration, the component of the system to send, during the emergency telecommunication service, the address information to the public safety answering point device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

based on the second configuration, and in response to a communication corresponding to the emergency telecommunication service being determined to have been received from the user equipment, sending, by the system, the address information directed to the public safety answering point device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to the address information being determined to have been included in the data store, determining, by the system, whether a location of the user equipment satisfies a defined condition with respect to a distance of the user equipment from the address.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the configuring based on the configuration is a first configuring based on a first configuration, and wherein the method further comprises:

in response to determining that the location of the user equipment satisfies the defined condition with respect to the distance of the user equipment from the address, second configuring, by the system based on a second configuration, the component of the system to send, during the emergency telecommunication service, the address information to the public safety answering point device.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

based on the second configuration, in response to a communication corresponding to the emergency telecommunication service being determined to have been received from the user equipment, sending, by the system, the address information directed to the public safety answering point device.

11. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

in response to determining, during a first validation corresponding to a transaction at a point of sale of a mobile device associated with a subscriber identity representative of a subscriber that has subscribed to a wireless service, that an address corresponding to the subscriber identity has not been included in a data store associated with an emergency telecommunication service, repeating determining, during respective validations based on a defined frequency, whether the address has been included in the data store; and

in response to the address being determined not to have been included in the data store, determining a geolocation associated with the mobile device, wherein the geolocation comprises a latitude and a longitude associated with the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to the determining of the geolocation, and in response to a communication corresponding to the emergency telecommunication service being determined to have been received from the mobile device, sending the geolocation information directed to a public safety answering point device.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

in response to the determining of the geolocation, determining, during a second validation corresponding to an installation of the wireless service on the mobile device, whether the address has been included in the data store.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to the address being determined to have been included in the data store, determining whether a distance from the mobile device to a location represented by the address satisfies a defined condition.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to determining that the distance from mobile device to the location represented by the address satisfies the defined condition, and in response to a communication corresponding to the emergency telecommunication service being determined to have been received from the mobile device, sending the address directed to a public safety answering point device.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the determining that the address has not been included in the data store comprises:

sending an address request directed to a device associated with a service provider of the wireless service; and

in response to the sending of the address request, receiving, from the device, confirmation information representing an indication that the address has not been included in the data store.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the device is configured to enable access to a street address guide comprising the address.

18. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

in response to determining, during a validation associated with a point of sale of a wireless communication device, that an address corresponding to a subscriber identity associated with a wireless service has not been included in a data store corresponding to an emergency telecommunication service, determining, during respective validations configured to occur according to a defined schedule, whether the address has been included in the data store; and

in response to the address being determined not to have been included in the data store, determining location information comprising a longitude and a latitude representing a location of the wireless communication device.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to the address being determined to have been included in the data store, determining whether a distance of the wireless communication device from a first geolocation of the wireless communication device to a second geolocation of the address satisfies a defined condition.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to determining that the distance of the wireless communication device from the first geolocation to the second geolocation satisfies the defined condition, and in response to a communication corresponding to the emergency telecommunication service being determined to have been received from the wireless communication device, facilitating sending of information representing the address directed to a public safety answering point device.