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EMERGENCY NUMBER SELECTION FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE

  • US 20080200142A1
  • Filed: 02/15/2007
  • Published: 08/21/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of automatically selecting an emergency number for use by a mobile communications device enabled for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, comprising:

  • receiving at the mobile communications device a geographic indicator in a beacon frame transmitted from a wireless access point of a wireless local area network that is connected to an Internet Protocol network; and

    determining from a plurality of emergency numbers stored in a storage element of the mobile communications device a selected emergency number in dependence on the received geographic indicator.

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