Systems and methods for providing location signals/indicators when 911 dialed

• US 7,551,726 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2006
• Issued: 06/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Binning, Valerie
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): El-Zoobi, Maria
• Application Number:
  US11/447,635
• Publication Number:
  US 20060227942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,113 Days
• Field of Search: 379/45, 455/550.1, 455/404.2, 4554561-4565, 455/404, 709/224, 701/117
• US Class Current: 379/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatuses that operate with different communications devices, different users, and/or different communications networks to generate, enable, and/or transmit an Emergency Locator Signal to a communications address of the local communications network. According to embodiments, the transmitted Emergency Locator Signal communicates with the local communications network to identify a location of the calling party'"'"'s communications device (or alternate selected communications device) at a geographic location of an Emergency Communications Address. Thereafter, the location of the calling party'"'"'s communications device is communicated to emergency response personnel to better locate a victim in proximity to the calling party'"'"'s communications device.

Claims

1. A system for providing emergency communication comprising:

a processor executing instructions stored in memory, the instructions causing the processor to;

receive a communication from a sender'"'"'s communications address to an emergency response communications address;

associate the sender'"'"'s communications address and the emergency response communications address to a profile;

retrieve an emergency address from the profile;

prompt the sender during the communication to enter a code that blocks generation of an emergency locator signal;

automatically block generation of the emergency locator signal when the code is entered; and

generate the emergency locator signal when the code is not entered to identify a location of the sender'"'"'s communications device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to associate the profile with an incoming line identification (ICLID) signal.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to retrieve from the profile an identifier of a room within a building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to communicate the emergency locator signal to the sender'"'"'s communications address.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to retrieve a third party communications address from the profile and to communicate the emergency locator signal to the third party communications address.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:

retrieve from the profile an identifier of a room within a building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address; and

send the identifier of the room to the third party communications address.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to activate a continuous ringer at the sender'"'"'s communications address to identify the location of the sender'"'"'s communications device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to retrieve a third party communications address from the profile and to notify the third party communications address that the ringer was activated.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to establish a voice communication with the sender'"'"'s communications address.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:

retrieve a third party communications address from the profile; and

establish a voice connection between the emergency response communications address and the third party communications address.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to establish a three-way voice communication between the sender'"'"'s communications address, the emergency response communications address, and the third party communications address.

12. A system for providing emergency communication comprising:

a processor executing instructions stored in memory, the instructions causing the processor to;

receive a communication from a sender'"'"'s communications address to an emergency response communications address;

associate the sender'"'"'s communications address and the emergency response communications address to a profile;

retrieve from the profile an emergency address and an identifier of a room within a building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address;

prompt the sender during the communication to enter a code that blocks generation of an emergency locator signal;

automatically block generation of the emergency locator signal when the code is entered;

generate the emergency locator signal when the code is not entered to comprise the identifier of the room within the building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address; and

send the emergency locator signal to the an emergency address to identify a physical location of the sender'"'"'s communications device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:

retrieve a third party communications address from the profile; and

establish a three-way voice communication between the sender'"'"'s communications address, the emergency response communications address, and the third party communications address.

14. A method of providing emergency communication, comprising:

receiving a communication from a sender'"'"'s communications address to an emergency response communications address;

associating the sender'"'"'s communications address and the emergency response communications address to a profile;

retrieving an emergency address from the profile;

prompting the sender during the communication to enter a code that blocks generation of an emergency locator signal;

automatically blocking generation of the emergency locator signal when the code is entered; and

generating the emergency locator signal when the code is not entered to identify a location of the sender'"'"'s communications device.

15. The method of claim 14, comprising:

associating the profile with an incoming line identification (ICLID) signal.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising retrieving from the profile an identifier of a room within a building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

communicating the emergency locator signal to the sender'"'"'s communications address;

retrieving a third party communications address from the profile;

communicating the emergency locator signal to the third party communications address; and

communicating the identifier of the room within the building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

activating a continuous ringer at the sender'"'"'s communications address to identify the location of the sender'"'"'s communications device.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising establishing a voice communication with the sender'"'"'s communications address.

20. A method of providing emergency communication, comprising:

receiving a communication from a sender'"'"'s communications address to an emergency response communications address;

associating the sender'"'"'s communications address and the emergency response communications address to a profile;

retrieving from the profile an emergency address and an identifier of a room within a building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address;

prompting the sender during the communication to enter a code that blocks generation of an emergency locator signal;

automatically blocking generation of the emergency locator signal when the code is entered;

generating the emergency locator signal when the code is not entered to comprise the identifier of the room within the building associated with the sender'"'"'s communications address; and

sending the emergency locator signal to the an emergency address to identify a physical location of the sender'"'"'s communications device.