Emergency Telephone Call Notification Service System and Method

• US 20110002448A1
• Filed: 12/21/2009
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SBC Properties, L.P.
• Inventors: Tiliks, Dianna Inara, McBlain, Thomas Joseph, Pelletier, Karen Jeanne, Griffith, Laura Marie, Kovarik, James Daniel, Bartels, Todd August, Blumenschein, Gordon Lynn, Orwick, David Anthony
• Granted Patent: US 8,705,703 B2
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/04 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13103 Memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13141 Hunting for free outlet, circuit or channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13176 Common channel signaling, CCS7
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13336 Store & forward, messaging systems email H04Q2213/13375
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13345 Intelligent networks, SCP
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1337 Operator, emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13389 LAN, internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking

Abstract

A system and method for emergency telephone call notification. The system includes an AIN capable switch, a service control point (SCP) having a database of designated contact numbers associated with a service subscriber telephone number, and an intelligent peripheral (IP) in communication with the SCP for contacting the designated contact numbers. The method includes the steps of recognizing an N11 trigger and the SCP initiating telephone calls, via the IP, to each of the contact numbers corresponding to the telephone number of the subscriber making the emergency telephone call.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A method of notifying at least one designated telephone number that an emergency telephone call has been made from a subscriber telephone, the method comprising:

receiving an emergency telephone call from at least one subscriber telephone in communication with a switch;

recognizing an emergency telephone call at the switch;

connecting the at least one subscriber telephone to a called party associated with the emergency telephone call;

generating, in response to the recognized emergency telephone call, a first call to at least one designated telephone number;

informing, via the first call, the at least one designated telephone number that the subscriber telephone has been utilized to place the emergency telephone call to the called party associated with an emergency telephone number; and

automatically generating a second call to connect the at least one designated telephone number to the subscriber telephone if a person answers the at least one designated telephone number.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the emergency telephone number is 911.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein recognizing an emergency telephone call comprises recognizing an N11 trigger.

25. The method of claim 22 further comprising:

a database having a list of subscriber telephone numbers and a list of at least one designated telephone numbers associated with each of the subscriber telephone numbers in the list of subscriber telephone numbers, and

wherein the switch informs the at least one designated telephone number of the emergency telephone call from the subscriber telephone number comprises retrieving a first of the at least one designated telephone number associated with the subscriber telephone number and initiating a process of informing at least one of the at least one designated telephone numbers that an emergency telephone call has been placed from the subscriber telephone number.

26. The method of claim 22, wherein informing further comprises supplying a caller ID message to the at least one designated telephone number indicating an incoming call from an emergency call notification service.

27. The method of claim 22, wherein recognizing an emergency telephone call comprises utilizing a caller ID generator having a predesignated message stored in a memory.

28. The method of claim 22, wherein informing the at least one designated number comprises dialing a first of the at least one designated telephone numbers and waiting a predetermined number of rings before trying to contact a second one of the at least one designated telephone numbers.