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Apparatus for locating a station initiating transmission of an emergency message in a network having multiple transmission sources

  • US 7,356,129 B1
  • Filed: 08/18/1999
  • Issued: 04/08/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/18/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Emergency message processor apparatus, for use in a local communications network including supported multiple transmission sources, to provide emergency message initiator identification information, regarding the one transmission source having initiated an emergency message, to an emergency system including an emergency system (ALI) database, the apparatus comprising:

  • (a) an information storage unit, interposed in the local communications network, maintaining indicia, defining the multiple transmission sources, to be transmitted under emergency circumstances, and implementation information to enable the indicia to be transmitted and properly routed when emergency circumstances occur, immediately upon initiation of an emergency message; and

    (b) an initiator, in the local communications network, fully implementing transmission into the emergency system, with minimal volitional activity, of at least some of the indicia, defining a transmission source implementing transmission under emergency circumstances, immediately upon initiation of an emergency message;

    (c) wherein said initiator precludes a need for any extraordinary adjunct equipment specially installed in the emergency system which corresponds with said initiator.

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