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System and method for managing emergency requests

  • US 9,215,734 B2
  • Filed: 06/02/2009
  • Issued: 12/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a network component configured to;

    receive from a user equipment (“

    UE”

    ) a Session Initiation Protocol (“

    SIP”

    ) request message for a dialog that is an emergency-related request;

    update header information of the SIP request message for a dialog;

    forward the SIP request message for a dialog toward a Public Safety Answering Point (“

    PSAP”

    );

    send to the UE a SIP response message in response to the SIP request message, the SIP response message containing a P-Asserted-Identity header field with an indicator indicating that the SIP request message for a dialog, sent by the UE, is an emergency-related request, that the network component is part of a trust domain, and that the UE should include location information in a response to the SIP response message; and

    receive from the UE, in response to the SIP response message, a SIP request message within the dialog, the SIP request message within the dialog containing emergency-related information associated with the UE.

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