Method and system for establishing emergency call

• US 9,001,835 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2011
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yang, Yanfei
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh, Ayaz
• Assistant Examiner(s): AGA, SORI A
• Application Number:
  US13/220,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20110310774A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,317 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications

Abstract

A method for establishing an emergency call includes: if an emergency call request message sent by a User Equipment (UE) contains an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem Public User Identity (IMPU) in a TEL URI format, a Proxy-Call Session Control Function entity (P-CSCF) generates an IMPU in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI format according to the IMPU in the TEL URI format, sends both IMPUs to a Public Safety Answering Point (PS AP), and receives an emergency callback initiated by the PSAP. The PSAP initiates the emergency callback according to one of the two IMPUs. A system for establishing an emergency call includes a UE, a P-CSCF and a PSAP. The PSAP can always acquire the IMPU in the TEL URI format and the IMPU in the SIP URI format of the UE, and initiate an emergency callback to the UE according to the IMPU in the SIP URI format.

Claims

1. A method for establishing an emergency call, comprising:

receiving, by a Proxy-Call Session Control Function entity (P-CSCF) an emergency call request message from a User Equipment (UE);

if the emergency call request message contains an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem Public User Identity (IMPU) in a Telephone Uniform Resource Identifier, (TEL URI), format, obtaining, by the P-CSCF, an IMPU in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI format of the UE according to a SIP URI of a S-CSCF and the IMPU in the TEL URI format of the UE, wherein the SIP URI of the S-CSCF is saved in advance by the P-CSCF during a registration procedure; and

sending, by the P-CSCF, the IMPU in the TEL URI format and the IMPU in the SIP URI format to a Public Safety Answering Point, PSAP.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining, by the P-CSCF, the IMPU in the SIP URI format of the UE according to the SIP URI of the S-CSCF and the IMPU in the TEL URI format of the UE, comprises:

obtaining, by the P-CSCF, an E.164 number of the UE according to the IMPU in the TEL URI format of the UE,

obtaining, by the P-CSCF, a home domain name of the UE by parsing the SIP URI of the S-CSCF, and

combining, by the P-CSCF, the E.164 number of the UE with the home domain name of the UE.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving, by the P-CSCF, an emergency callback from the PSAP according to the IMPU in the TEL URI format or the IMPU in the SIP URI format.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the emergency callback initiated by the PSAP, comprises:

if the PSAP is located in a Circuit-Switched, CS, domain, the emergency callback is initiated by the PSAP according to the IMPU in the TEL URI format saved in the PSAP; and

if the PSAP is located in a Packet-Switched, PS, domain, the emergency callback is initiated by the PSAP according to the IMPU in the SIP URI format saved in the PSAP.

5. A Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF), comprising:

an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem Public User Identity (IMPU) reception and detection module, and an IMPU format conversion module, wherein,

the IMPU reception and detection module is configured to receive an IMPU sent by a User Equipment (UE) and send the IMPU to the IMPU format conversion module if the IMPU is in a Telephone Uniform Resource Identifier (TEL URI) format; and

the IMPU format conversion module is configured to obtain an IMPU in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI format according to a SIP URI of a S-CSCF and the IMPU in the TEL URI format of the UE, wherein the SIP URI of the S-CSCF is saved in advance by the P-CSCF during a registration procedure;

wherein the P-CSCF is configured to send the IMPU in the SIP URI format and the IMPU in the TEL URI format to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) by containing the IMPU in the TEL URI format and the IMPU in the SIP URI format in a P-Asserted-Identity header.