Method and system for control of a voice/data communications device using a radio frequency component

• US 20060115057A1
• Filed: 12/29/2005
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ShoreTel Incorporated (Mitel Networks Corporation)
• Original Assignee: ShoreTel Incorporated (Mitel Networks Corporation)
• Inventors: Laliberte, Donald
• Application Number:
  US11/321,094
• Publication Number:
  US 20060115057A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/37
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided to locate, route, and/or otherwise process a radio frequency emergency communications signal from a VoIP communication device equipped with a location positioning system and an emergency communications computer software product. The software identifies an emergency communications address, activates the location positioning system, and communicates location coordinates and other emergency information to a reconfigurable digital converter and digital channellizer processing office and/or to a voice/data communications switch. The emergency communications address includes a publicly registered emergency communications address and/or a user-defined communications address.

Claims

1. A method, comprising the following steps:

receiving a communications address from a voice-over internet protocol communications device;

associating the communications address with a database of at least one emergency communications address to determine if the communications address is an emergency communications address;

if the communications address is an emergency communications address, then;

using a positioning system to determine the location co-ordinates of the voice-over internet protocol communications device,

associating the location co-ordinates and an emergency communications profile with an emergency communications signal of the voice-over internet protocol communications device, the emergency communications profile comprising (1) emergency data, (2) an emergency data communications address for accessing the emergency data, and (3) at least one emergency communications address,

accessing the emergency data communications address and associating the emergency data with the emergency communications signal,

communicating the emergency communications signal via radio frequency to a smart antenna, the smart antenna communicating with at least one communications network.

2. The method of claim 1, the smart antenna coupled with a reconfigurable digital converter and digital channellization processing office, the office communicating the emergency communications signal via digital broadband to the at least one communications network.

3. The method of claim 2, the office further detecting, decoding, and matching the location co-ordinates to a public safety access provider for the emergency communications address.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of connecting the emergency communications signal to the public safety answering point of the emergency communications address comprises connecting the emergency communications signal to an emergency telephonic communications address of the public safety access provider.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of connecting the emergency communications signal to the public safety access provider of the emergency communications address comprises connecting the emergency communications signal to an emergency internet protocol communications address of the public safety access provider.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of:

communicating the emergency communications signal to a voice/data switch of a telecommunications network for communication to the public safety access provider of the emergency communications address.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of:

communicating the emergency communications signal to a voice/data switch of a data network for communication to the public safety access provider of the emergency communications address.

8. The method of claim 1, the at least one communications network detecting, decoding, and matching the location co-ordinates to a public safety access provider for the emergency communications address

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of communicating the emergency communications signal to at least one communications network comprises communicating the emergency communications signal to a telecommunications network and communicating the emergency communications signal to a data network.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the voice-over internet protocol device comprises a wireless communications device, a voice-over internet protocol phone, a computer, a digital music device, a digital recording device, a personal digital assistant, an interactive television, and a digital signal processor.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of accessing the emergency data communications address and associating the emergency data with the emergency communications signal comprises accessing a remote database and associating the emergency data stored on the remote database with the emergency communications signal.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

if the emergency data is stored in a remote database, then associating the emergency communications signal with a communications link to access and retrieve the emergency data,

accessing and retrieving the remotely stored emergency data and associating the remotely stored emergency data with the emergency communications signal.

13. The method of claim 2, the office further detecting, decoding, and matching the location co-ordinates to the emergency communications address, the emergency communications address comprising a user-defined communications address for emergency processing.

14. A communications system, comprising:

an open air communications device having a position locating system and an emergency communications module stored in memory, the emergency communications module accessing a database of at least one emergency communications profile comprising (1) at least one emergency communications address, (2) emergency data, and (3) an emergency data communications address for accessing the emergency data; and

a communications interface having the means to communicate an emergency communication signal between the communications device and a communications network, wherein the emergency communication signal comprises (1) at least one location co-ordinate of the position locating system, (2) the emergency communications address, (3) a communications signal, (4) the emergency data, and (5) the emergency data communications address for accessing the emergency data.

15. The communications system of claim 14, the communications interface further having the means to communicate the emergency communications signal via radio frequency to a smart antenna coupled with a reconfigurable digital converter and digital channellization processing office, the reconfigurable digital converter and digital channellization processing office communicating the emergency communications signal via digital broadband to at least one communications network.

16. The communications system of claim 15, the reconfigurable digital converter and digital channellization processing office detecting, decoding, and matching the location co-ordinates to a public safety access provider for the emergency communications address.

17. The communications system of claim 16, the public safety access provider of the emergency communications address comprising an emergency telephonic communications address of the public safety access provider and an emergency internet protocol communications address of the public safety access provider.

18. A computer program product, comprising instructions for performing the following steps:

receiving a communications address from a voice-over internet protocol communications device;

associating the communications address with a database of at least one emergency communications address to determine if the communications address is an emergency communications address;

if the communications address is an emergency communications address, then;

using a positioning system to determine the location co-ordinates of the voice-over internet protocol communications device,

associating the location co-ordinates and an emergency communications profile with an emergency communications signal of the voice-over internet protocol communications device, the emergency communications profile comprising (1) emergency data, (2) an emergency data communications address for accessing the emergency data, and (3) at least one emergency communications address,

accessing the emergency data communications address and associating the emergency data with the emergency communications signal,

communicating the emergency communications signal via radio frequency to a smart antenna, the smart antenna communicating with at least one communications network.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, the instruction for communicating the emergency communications signal via radio frequency to a smart antenna further comprising instructions for the smart antenna to communicate with a reconfigurable digital converter and digital channellization processing office such that the office communicates the emergency communications signal via digital broadband to the at least one communications network.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising instructions for:

detecting, decoding, and matching the location co-ordinates to a public safety access provider for the emergency communications address;

communicating the emergency communications signal to an emergency communications address of the public safety access provider, the emergency communications address comprising an emergency telephonic communications address and an emergency internet protocol communications address; and

communicating an emergency responder communications signal to a radio frequency device, the radio frequency device communicating with the reconfigurable digital converter and digital channellization processing office.