SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKETIZED EMERGENCY MESSAGES

• US 20110188416A1
• Filed: 02/02/2010
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Chin, Chen-Ho, Suzuki, Takashi, Faccin, Stefano, Bakker, Jan Hendrik Lucas, Dwyer, Johanna Lisa, Earnshaw, Mark, McCann, Stephen, Rayavarapu, Venkata Ratnakar Rao
• Application Number:
  US12/698,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20110188416A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/310
• 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 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A system and method allows for providing emergency service, whether the service is full or limited, to wireless devices using non-IMS packet traffic based methods or Access Stratum/Non-Access Stratum (AS/NAS) signalling based methods. To do so, a system and method for utilizing a Packetized Emergency Message (PEM) is provided.

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