Method for confirming end point location of 911 calls

• US 20070123237A1
• Filed: 09/22/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gilboy, Christopher, Cacioppo, Christina, Shinners, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 7,450,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.400
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising receiving, from a user-operated telecommunications device, a user-initiated communication to a non-911 communications address. The method can comprise automatically providing a user with a current location of a user-associated telecommunications device. The method can comprise requesting, from the user, verification of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

responsive to a user-initiated communication from a user-operated telecommunications device to a non-911 communications address, requesting from the user a verification of a current location of a user-associated telecommunications device, the current location automatically provided to the user, the user-operated telecommunications device distinct from the user-associated telecommunications device.

2. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

receiving from the user-operated telecommunications device the user-initiated communication to the non-911 communications address.

3. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

automatically providing the user with a spoken current location of the user-associated telecommunications device.

4. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

receiving a communications address of the user-associated telecommunications device.

5. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

receiving a communications address of the user-associated telecommunications device from the user.

6. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

receiving at an Internet site a communications address of the user-associated telecommunications device.

7. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

recording a communications address of the user-associated telecommunications device.

8. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

receiving information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device.

9. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

obtaining information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device from an Automatic Location Information database.

10. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

obtaining information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device from a mobile positioning center.

11. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

obtaining information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device from a triangulation source.

12. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

obtaining information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device from a GPS source.

13. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

obtaining information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device from an Emergency Service Message Entity.

14. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

via wireless packet data, providing to the user-operated telecommunications device information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device.

15. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., further comprising:

providing the user with a communications address to contact to modify information indicative of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device.

16. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., wherein the user-initiated communication comprises a telephone call.

17. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., wherein a provided current location of the user-associated telecommunications device is provided to the user via text-to-speech conversion.

18. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., wherein the user-associated telecommunications device is a wireless user-operated telecommunications device.

19. The method of claim Error! Reference source not found., wherein the user-associated telecommunications device is a wireline user-operated telecommunications device.

20. A system comprising:

a communication processor adapted to receive from a user-operated telecommunications device a user-initiated communication to a non-911 communications address;

a location processor adapted to automatically provide a user with a current location of the user-operated telecommunications device, the user-operated telecommunications device distinct from the user-associated telecommunications device; and

a verification processor adapted to request from the user a verification of the current location of the user-operated telecommunications device.

21. A machine-readable medium storing machine-executable instructions for activities comprising:

in response to receipt from a user-operated telecommunications device a user-initiated communication to a non-911 communications address, requesting from the user a verification of a current location of a user-associated telecommunications device, the current location automatically provided to the user, the user-operated telecommunications device distinct from the user-associated telecommunications device.