EMERGENCY NUMBER SELECTION FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method of automatically selecting an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device enabled for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, comprising:
- receiving at the mobile communications device a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point of a wireless local area network that is connected to an Internet Protocol network; and
determining from a plurality of emergency numbers stored in a storage element of the mobile communications device a selected emergency number in dependence on the received geographic indicator.
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Abstract
Automatically selecting an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device enabled for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, including: receiving at the mobile communications device a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point of a wireless local area network that is connected to an Internet Protocol network; and determining from a plurality of emergency numbers stored in a storage element of the mobile communications device a selected emergency number in dependence on the received geographic indicator.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of automatically selecting an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device enabled for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, comprising:
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receiving at the mobile communications device a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point of a wireless local area network that is connected to an Internet Protocol network; and determining from a plurality of emergency numbers stored in a storage element of the mobile communications device a selected emergency number in dependence on the received geographic indicator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of automatically calling an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device that has stored thereon a plurality of emergency numbers that are each associated with a country code, wherein the mobile communications device is (i) enabled for voice communications over both a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a wireless wide area network (WAN), and (ii) enabled to receive country code information from the WLAN and the wireless WAN, the method comprising:
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receiving at the mobile communications device a user input indicating that a user of the mobile communications device wants to initiate an emergency call; determining if a wireless WAN is acquired by the mobile communications device at the time that the user input is received, and if so initiating a call from the mobile communications device to an emergency number selected from the plurality of emergency numbers in dependence on country code information received by the mobile communications device from the wireless WAN; and if a wireless WAN is not acquired by the mobile communications device at the time that the user input is received, then determining if a WLAN is acquired by the mobile device and if so initiating a call from the mobile communications device to an emergency number selected from the plurality of emergency numbers in dependence on country code information received by the mobile communications device from the WLAN. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A mobile communications device enabled to make VoIP calls, comprising:
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a controller for controlling the operation of the device; a user input interface coupled to the controller; a display coupled to the controller; a communications subsystem coupled to the controller for exchanging signals with a wireless access point of a wireless local area network; and an electronic storage element coupled to the controller and having stored thereon a plurality of geographic indicators and emergency numbers associated with the geographic indicators, the controller being configured for selecting an emergency number for use in a VoIP call to an emergency service by;
(i) receiving through the communications subsystem a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point of a wireless local area network, and (ii) selecting from the emergency numbers stored on the storage element a selected emergency number in dependence on the received geographic indicator. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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