Reducing provider costs related to E911 service

• US 9,560,510 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2016
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kadi, Sergio, Chen, Jing, Buyukdura, Feza, Crawford, Dwayne, Parlamas, Stephanie
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Application Number:
  US15/140,686
• Publication Number:
  US 20160242017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 278 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.1, 455/404.2, 455/412.1, 455/414.2, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/457, 379/45
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/558 Databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/04 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5116 for emergency applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

In compliance with regulatory requirements imposed on multicarrier wired/wireless network carriers, the disclosed system receives input representing a selection of a street address to be used as a current location associated with a user identity. The system determines an expiration date associated with the street address, designates the street address as a validated emergency contact location for the user identity in response to determining that the expiration date associated with the street address has not expired. The system thereafter permits the establishment of communications between the system and a disparate wireless network device associated with a multicarrier wireless network.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

generating an enhanced 911 address identifier as a function of a street address for a current location associated with a user identity;

determining an expiration date associated with the street address based on the enhanced 911 address identifier;

in response to determining the expiration date has not expired, designating the street address as an emergency contact location for the user identity; and

based on the emergency contact location, establishing a communication between the device network device associated with a multicarrier wireless network.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise, in response to determining that the expiration date has expired, instructing address data representing the street address to be sent to a provisioning server device coupled to a data storage device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the input is first input, wherein the operations further comprise, in response to receiving second input representing an updated street address for the current location associated with the user identity, instructing updated address data representing the updated street address to be sent to a provisioning server device coupled to a data storage device, and wherein the updated street address is to replace the street address as the emergency contact location.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the expiration date is a first expiration date, wherein the enhanced 911 address identifier is a first enhanced 911 address identifier, wherein the operations further comprise receiving validated street address data from the provisioning server device, and wherein the validated street address data comprises a second expiration date determined by the provisioning server device and a second enhanced 911 address identifier generated by the provisioning server device.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the operations further comprise:

associating the second expiration date and the second enhanced 911 address identifier with the updated street location; and

storing the local data to a data storage device.

6. The device of claim 3, wherein the operation further comprise, in response to receiving a negative reply representing an inability to validate the street address from the provisioning server device,

initiating display of an error message on a display device;

and

requesting third input representing an alternative street address for the current location associated with the user identity.

7. A method, comprising:

generating, by a system comprising a processor, an enhanced 911 address identifier based on a street address included in a street address validation request;

as a function of the enhanced 911 address identifier, determining, by the system, that the street address has an entry representing the street address associated with a user identity stored by a data storage device associated with the system;

as a function of determining that the street address has the entry in the data storage device, updating, by the system, an expiration date associated with the street address; and

returning, by the system, updated data representing the expiration date and the enhanced 911 address identifier.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the entry comprises data that correlates the street address with a geographic coordinate.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the entry comprises the enhanced 911 address identifier and the expiration date associated with the street address.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the updating comprises adding a defined periodicity to a current date to result in the expiration date associated with the street address.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the enhanced 911 address identifier is used as an index to search the data storage device.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising, as a function of determining that the street address does have the entry in the data storage device,

generating, by the system, the enhanced 911 address identifier;

and

initiating, by the system, sending of verification data representing the enhanced 911 address identifier and the street address to an emergency routing device.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising, in response to receiving notification data representing a notification from the emergency routing device that the street address included in the verification data cannot be correlated with a geographical coordinate, initiating, by the system, sending of the notification to a portable device to facilitate re-entry of the street address.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising, in response to receiving notification data representing a notification from the emergency routing device that the street address included in the verification data has been correlated with a geographical coordinate, storing, by the system, storage data representing the enhanced 911 address identifier, the street address, and a determined expiration date to the data storage device as the entry.

15. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

periodically scanning, by the system, the data storage device for entries associated with enhanced 911 address identifiers that have expired as a function of a current date;

initiating, by the system, sending of removal request data representing the entries that have expired to an emergency routing device to facilitate removal of the entries from a data store device associated with the emergency routing device; and

in response to a confirmation data representing a notification that the emergency routing device has removed the entries from the data storage device associated with the emergency routing device, deleting, by the system, the entries from the data storage device as a function of the removal request data.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

preventing establishment of a communication to a network device associated with a multicarrier wireless network;

generating an enhanced 911 address identifier as a function of input representing a street address for a current location associated with a user identity;

determining, based on the enhanced 911 address identifier, an expiration date associated with the street address;

designating the street address as an emergency contact location for the user identity in response to determining that the expiration date has not lapsed due to passage of time; and

permitting the establishment of the communication to the network device associated with the multicarrier wireless network.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise, in response to determining that the expiration date has lapsed due to the passage of time, initiating sending of address data representing the street address to a provisioning server device coupled to a data storage device.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the input is initial input, and the operations further comprise, in response to receiving further input representing an alternate street address for the current location associated with the user identity, initiating sending of alternative address data representing the alternative street address to a provisioning server device coupled to a data storage device, and wherein the alternative street address is to be used as the emergency contact location.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the enhanced 911 address identifier is a first enhanced 911 address identifier, wherein the expiration date is a first expiration date, wherein the operations further comprise receiving validated street address data from the provisioning server device, and wherein the validated street address data comprises a second expiration date and a second enhanced 911 address identifier generated by the provisioning server device.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise initiating sending of security data representing the street address and the second enhanced 911 address identifier to a security function device coupled to the data storage device.