System for providing the telephone number of a telephone making an emergency call

• US 6,014,555 A
• Filed: 06/21/1996
• Issued: 01/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tendler Cellular Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tendler Cellular Incorporated
• Inventors: Tendler, Robert K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Application Number:
  US08/667,398
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/404, 455/556, 455/563, 455/564, 455/575, 379/49, 379/88.16, 379/142, 379/51, 379/45, 379/38, 379/67, 379/355, 379/88
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/578 associated with a synthesized vocal announcement
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/677 Preventing the dialling or sending of predetermined telephone numbers or selected types of telephone numbers, e.g. long distance numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72421 with automatic activation of emergency service functions, e.g. upon sensing an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72424 with manual activation of emergency-service functions

Abstract

An infrastructureless system is provided for automatically providing the telephone number of the phone making an emergency call by utilizing a synthetic voice announcement of the phone number during the emergency transmission from the phone, thereby to eliminate infrastructure involved in providing the telephone number to the recipient of the emergency call.

Claims

1. A method for eliminating additional infrastructure requirements in the report of the telephone number of a wireless phone placing an emergency call to emergency personnel at a public service access point in which the call is placed over a network which supports verbal communication to permit the call back to said wireless telephone in the event of a dropped or terminated call, comprising the steps of:

synthetically generating a verbal non-digital rendition of the telephone number of said wireless telephone at said wireless telephone; and

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transmitting said verbal rendition of said telephone number from said wireless telephone to said public service access point during said emergency call, whereby said emergency personnel are appraised of said telephone number during aural receipt thereof without the requirement of additional digital apparatus either at said public service access point or said network.