Establishing text communication sessions between wireless mobile devices and emergency call centers

• US 9,629,185 B1
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TriTech Software Systems (CentralSquare Technologies, LLC)
• Original Assignee: TriTech Software Systems (CentralSquare Technologies, LLC)
• Inventors: Gluckman, Sidney P., Zaharychuk, John T., Loberg, Erik C., Henderson, Lisa A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Agosta, Steve D
• Application Number:
  US14/476,683
• Time in Patent Office: 958 Days
• Field of Search: 4554041, 4554141-4144, 455466, 370259, 3703102, 379 37, 379 8813, 37926502, 709204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

Systems and methods for establishing text communication sessions between wireless mobile devices and emergency call centers are presented herein. The text communications may be established by effectuating changes to a media type specified in session invitation messages, response messages, and/or other messages that are relayed between a given wireless mobile device and an emergency call center.

Claims

1. A system for establishing text communication sessions between wireless mobile devices and emergency call centers, the system comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions embodied thereon; and

one or more hardware processors configured by the computer readable instructions to;

receive session invitation messages that are used to establish communication sessions between wireless mobile devices and an emergency call center, the session invitation messages specifying a media type of incoming emergency communications paced to the emergency call center from the wireless mobile devices;

responsive to reception of a first session invitation message used to establish a first session between a first wireless mobile device and the emergency call center, in which the first session invitation message specifies that an incoming emergency communication for the first session is a textual media type, effectuate a change in the first session invitation message to specify that the incoming emergency communication for the first session is an audio media type;

effectuate transmission of the first session invitation message to the emergency call center, and receive a first response message from the emergency call center, the first response message specifying the audio media type as an accepted media type for the incoming emergency communication received at the emergency call center during the first session; and

effectuate a change in the first response message such that the first response message specifies the textual media type as the accepted media type for the incoming emergency communication received at the emergency call center during the first session, and effectuate transmission of the first response message to the first wireless mobile devices, wherein the transmission on the first response message facilitates establishing the first session, wherein effectuating the change in the first session invitation message comprises one or more of replacing, substituting, and/or redefining information associated with an m-line identifier or a-line information with replacement syntax and/or information related to a media type, the substituting including substituting a description in the first session invitation message that indicates the textual media type with a new description that indicates the audio media type, wherein the a-line shows path information and an accepted media type.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer readable instructions to:

responsive to the first wireless mobile device receiving the first response message, receive a first acknowledgement message from the first wireless mobile device, and effectuate transmission of the first acknowledgement message to the emergency call center.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer readable instructions such that reception of the first acknowledgement message at the emergency call center establishes the first session.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer readable instructions such that the description in the first session invitation message that indicates the media type is associated with an identifier included in the first session invitation message.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer readable instructions such that the first session invitation message comprises an SIP over SDP message.

6. The system claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer readable instructions such that the first response message comprises an SIP over SDP message.

7. The system claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer readable instructions to:

receive a first incoming emergency communication from the first wireless mobile device, and effectuate transmission of the first incoming emergency communication to the emergency call center based on the first session.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer-readable instructions such that the first incoming emergency communication is a text message.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured by computer-readable instructions such that emergency call center comprises an Automated Call Distribution system.

10. A method of establishing text communication sessions between wireless mobile devices and emergency call centers, the method being implemented in a computer system including one or more physical processors and storage media storing machine-readable instructions, the method comprising:

receiving session invitation messages that are used to establish communication sessions between wireless mobile devices and an emergency call center, the session invitation messages specifying a media type of incoming emergency communications placed to the emergency call center from the wireless mobile devices;

responsive to reception of a first session invitation message used to establish a first session between a first wireless mobile device and the emergency call center, in which the first session invitation message specifies that an incoming emergency communication for the first session is of a textual media type, effectuating a change in the first session invitation message to specify that the incoming emergency communication for the first session is of an audio media type;

effectuating transmission the first session invitation message to the emergency call center, and receiving a first response message from the emergency call center, the first response message specifying the audio media type as an accepted media type for the incoming emergency communication received at the emergency call center during the first session; and

effectuating a change in the first response message such that the first response message specifies the textual media type as the accepted media type for the incoming emergency communication received at the emergency call center during the first session, and effectuating transmission of the first response message to the first wireless mobile devices, wherein the transmission of the first response message facilitates establishing the first session, wherein effectuating the change in the first session invitation message comprises one or more of replacing, substituting, and/or redefining information associated with an m-line identifier or a-line information with replacement syntax and/or information related to a media type, the substituting including substituting a description in the first session invitation message that indicates the textual media type with a new description that indicates the audio media type, wherein the a-line shows path information and an accepted media type.

11. The method of claim 10, additionally comprising:

responsive to the first wireless mobile device receiving the first response message, receiving a first acknowledgement message from the first wireless mobile device, and effectuating transmission of the first acknowledgement message to the emergency call center.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein reception of the first acknowledgement message at the emergency call center establishes the first session.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the description in the first session invitation message that indicates the media type is associated with an identifier included in the first session invitation message.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the first session invitation message comprises an SIP over SDP message.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the first responses message comprises an SIP over SDP message.

16. The method of claim 10, additionally comprising:

receiving a first incoming emergency communication from the wireless mobile device, and effectuating transmission of the first incoming emergency communication to the emergency call center based on the first session.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first incoming emergency communication is a text message.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the emergency call center comprises an Automated Call Distribution system.