SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING EMERGENCY DATA MESSAGES AT A PSAP

• US 20100003946A1
• Filed: 10/24/2008
• Published: 01/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Embarq Holdings Company LLC (Lumen Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Greene, Lynn T., Ray, Amar Nath, Coppage, Carl M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,923,803 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5116 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0296 switching to a backup power supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system and method for receiving and processing data messages at a PSAP may include parsing an emergency data message to identify data elements in an emergency data message, populating data fields of a data record with the data elements of the emergency data message, and displaying the data record in a list of selectable data records representative of received emergency data messages for an operator at the PSAP to view.

Claims

1. A system for receiving and processing data messages at a public safety answering point (PSAP), said system comprising:

an input/output (I/O) unit configured to receive emergency data messages over a network;

a memory configured to store data associated with the emergency data messages;

an electronic display configured to display data associated with the emergency data messages; and

a processing unit in communication with said I/O unit, memory, and electronic display, and configured to;

parse an emergency data message received by said I/O unit to identify data elements in the emergency data message;

populate data fields of a data record with the data elements of the emergency data message; and

display the data record in a list of selectable data records representative of the emergency data messages on said electronic display for an operator at the PSAP to view.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the emergency data messages are text messages.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said processing unit is further configured to:

generate a time stamp in response to receiving each emergency data message; and

include the generated time stamp with each respective data record.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein said processing unit is further configured to display the list of data records in time-sequential order.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said processing unit is further configured to:

collect at least one data element received in multiple emergency data messages received from the same user; and

display a data record with the collected at least one data element in a list in response to one of the multiple emergency data records being selected by an operator at the PSAP.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one data element is a set of geographic coordinates.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein said processing unit is further configured to:

request conversion of the set of geographic coordinates to an address; and

display the address.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein said processing unit is further configured to display a map with an indicia representative of a physical location of the set of geographic coordinates.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said processing unit is further configured to display an image received with the emergency data message.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the emergency data message includes field descriptors of data associated with a user who communicated the emergency data message.

11. A method for receiving and processing data messages at a PSAP, said method comprising:

parsing an emergency data message to identify data elements in an emergency data message;

populating data fields of a data record with the data elements of the emergency data message; and

displaying the data record in a list of selectable data records representative of received emergency data messages for an operator at the PSAP to view.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein parsing the emergency data message includes parsing a text message.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

generating a time stamp in response to receiving the emergency data message; and

including the generated time stamp with the data record.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising displaying the list of data records in time-sequential order.

15. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

collecting at least one data element received in multiple emergency data messages received from the same user; and

displaying a data record with the collected at least one data element in a list in response to one of the multiple emergency data records being selected by an operator at the PSAP.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein parsing the emergency data message included parsing the emergency data message to identify a set of geographic coordinates included in the data elements.

17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising:

requesting conversion of the set of geographic coordinates to an address; and

displaying the address.

18. The method according to claim 16, further comprising displaying a map with an indicia representative of a physical location of the set of geographic coordinates.

19. The method according to claim 11, further comprising displaying an image received with the emergency data message.

20. The method according to claim 11, parsing the emergency data message includes identifying field descriptors of data associated with a user who communicated the emergency data message.