Emergency location informer system

1. An emergency location informer system comprising:

an emergency mobile positioning (EMP) server communicating over a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a cellular network and an internet protocol (IP) network;

an emergency service number (ESN) database server storing civic addresses and associated tags that are provided by an internet service provider (ISP) over the IP network;

an EMP-AP component stored in non-transitory computer readable media and executing on a processor of a wireless access point (AP) at a civic address known to the ISP, the EMP-AP component communicating tag information with the ISP over the IP network, the tag information including a tag associated with the civic address, the tag forming a part of a radio frequency (RF) beacon signal transmitted by the AP, wherein the EMP-AP component is generated by the ISP, transmitted to the AP over the IP network and stored in the non-transitory computer readable media of the AP, the EMP-AP component including code segments for embedding the tag into beacon frames of the RF beacon signal along with other beacon information normally provided by the AP; and

an EMP-OS component incorporated into an operating system (OS) and executing on a processor of a cell phone and operative to monitor the beacon signal of the AP and to store the tag, the EMP-OS component being further operative to embed the tag in an emergency call from the cell phone to the EMP server over a network;

whereby the EMP server receives the tag embedded in the emergency call such that a civic address associated with the tag can be retrieved from the ESN database server.

2. An emergency location informer system as recited in claim 1 wherein the EMP-OS component is further operative to transmit at least one of global positioning system (GPS), Assisted GPS (AGPS) and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information to the EMP server over the IP network.

3. An emergency location informer system as recited in claim 2 wherein the EMP server communicates over the IP network with an ESN operator.

4. An emergency location informer system as recited in claim 3 wherein the ESN operator provides the tag to the ESN database to obtain the associated civic address.

5. An emergency mobile positioning server comprising:

a processor;

a public switched telephone network (PSTN) interface coupled to the processor;

a cellular network interface coupled to the processor;

an internet protocol (IP) network interface coupled to the processor;

memory coupled to the processor, including code segments executable by the processor including:

(a) code segments receiving an emergency call via one or more of the PSTN interface, the cellular network interface, and the IP network interface;

(b) code segments determining if there is location information related to the emergency call;

(c) code segments storing the location information if there is location information related to the emergency call;

(d) code segments determining if there is an embedded tag for the emergency call;

(e) code segments directing the emergency call to an emergency call center based upon available information if there is no embedded tag for the emergency call;

(f) code segments providing bi-directional communication with an emergency service number (ESN) database server via the IP network interface, wherein the ESN database server includes tag and civic address information;

(g) code segments directing the emergency call with the embedded tag to an emergency call center if there is an embedded tag for the emergency call;

wherein the internet service provider (ISP) provides tag and associated civic address information to the ESN database server over an IP network and provides, over the IP network, an EMP-AP component to a wireless access point (AP) to serve as part of an AP operating system, the EMP-AP component including code segments to embed a tag associated with a civic address of the ESN database server in a beacon frame of a radio frequency (RF) beacon signal of the AP.

6. An emergency mobile positioning server as recited in claim 5 wherein the emergency call with the embedded tag is received by an ESN operator of the emergency call center.

7. An emergency mobile positioning server as recited in claim 6 wherein the ESN operator queries the ESN database server with the tag to retrieve the civic address.

8. An emergency mobile positioning server as recited in claim 5 , wherein the memory further comprises codes segments executable on the processor for receiving at least one of global positioning system (GPS), Assisted GPS (AGPS) and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information associated with the emergency call via the IP network interface.

9. An emergency mobile positioning server as recited in claim 8 , wherein the memory further comprises:

code segments querying the ESN database to retrieve civic address information; and

code segments for verifying the civic address information with the at least one of global positioning system (GPS), Assisted GPS (AGPS) and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information.

10. An emergency location informer system as recited in claim 1 wherein the EMP-OS component monitors a plurality of beacon signals, stores a plurality of tags and embeds multiple tags in the emergency call.

11. An emergency mobile positioning server as recited in claim 5 further comprising code segments receiving an emergency call with a plurality of tags.

12. An emergency mobile positioning server as recited in claim 11 further code segments querying the ESN database server with the plurality of tags to obtain civic address information related to the plurality of tags.