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US 7,689,200 · App. 11/561,439 · Granted Mar 30, 2010

Control system for emergency calls placed by mobile communication devices

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Patent No.
US 7,689,200
App. No.
11/561,439
Granted
Mar 30, 2010
Kind
B1
Abstract

An emergency call system comprises a control system and a location system. The control system associates emergency call processing parameters with individual ones of a plurality of Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs). The location system receives a call request for an emergency call placed by a mobile communication device. The emergency call is to be handled by one of the PSAPs. In response to the call request, the location system determines the emergency call processing parameters that are associated the one of the PSAPs handling the emergency call. The location system uses these associated emergency call processing parameters to process the emergency call.

Claims (24)

1. An emergency call system comprising:

a control system configured to uniquely associate different values of emergency call processing parameters with individual ones of a plurality of Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), wherein the emergency call processing parameters comprise key delay parameters; and

a location system configured to receive a call request for an emergency call placed by a mobile communication device wherein the emergency call is to be handled by one of the PSAPs, and in response, to determine the emergency call processing parameters that are associated with the one of the PSAPs handling the emergency call, and to use these associated emergency call processing parameters to process the emergency call to increase the availability of GPS coordinates of the mobile communication device to the one of the PSAPs for the emergency call.

2. The emergency call system of claim 1 wherein the control system is configured to maintain a data structure that associates the emergency call processing parameters with the individual ones of the PSAPs.

3. The emergency call system of claim 2 wherein the control system is configured to maintain a data structure that associates emergency services routing keys with the individual ones of the PSAPs.

4. The emergency call system of claim 1 wherein the control system is configured to maintain a data structure that associates emergency services routing keys with the emergency call processing parameters.

5. The emergency call system of claim 1 wherein the emergency call processing parameters further comprise sector sizing parameters.

6. The emergency call system of claim 1 wherein the emergency call processing parameters further comprise GPS uncertainty parameters.

7. The emergency call system of claim 1 wherein the emergency call processing parameters further comprise GPS re-query parameters.

8. The emergency call system of claim 1 wherein the control system is configured to allow a user to specify the emergency call processing parameters on a per-PSAP basis.

9. The emergency call system of claim 1 wherein the location system is configured to process the emergency call using the associated emergency call processing parameters to obtain a GPS location of the mobile communication device that placed the emergency call.

10. A method of operating an emergency call system, the method comprising:

uniquely associating different values of emergency call processing parameters with individual ones of a plurality of Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), wherein the emergency call processing parameters comprise key delay parameters;

receiving a call request for an emergency call placed by a mobile communication device wherein the emergency call is to be handled by one of the PSAPs;

in response to the emergency call request, determining the emergency call processing parameters that are associated with the one of the PSAPs handling the emergency call; and

using these associated emergency call processing parameters to process the emergency call to increase the availability of GPS coordinates of the mobile communication device to the one of the PSAPs for the emergency call.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising maintaining a data structure that associates the emergency call processing parameters with the individual ones of the PSAPs.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising maintaining a data structure that associates emergency services routing keys with the individual ones of the PSAPs.

13. The method of claim 10 further comprising maintaining a data structure that associates emergency services routing keys with the emergency call processing parameters.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the emergency call processing parameters further comprise sector sizing parameters.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the emergency call processing parameters further comprise GPS uncertainty parameters.

16. The method of claim 10 wherein the emergency call processing parameters further comprise GPS re-query parameters.

17. The method of claim 10 further comprising receiving the emergency call processing parameters specified on a per-PSAP basis from a user.

18. The method of claim 10 further comprising processing the emergency call using the associated emergency call processing parameters to obtain a GPS location of the mobile communication device that placed the emergency call.

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