Methods for providing an emergency contact service in a telecommunications network using permissions based on status of requesting entities
OwnerDeep Kumar H Rinventor
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Abstract
Methods for providing a service in a telecommunication network are described herein. An emergency contact service is activated for a valid subscriber of a provider of the telecommunication network. A permission is associated with the emergency contact list. The permission grants access to an entity requesting access based on a status of the requesting entity. An access identifier correlates with the emergency contact list.
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A method for providing a service in a telecommunication network, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to activate an emergency contact service;
- determining whether an entity requesting the activation is a valid subscriber of a provider of the telecommunication network;
- obtaining an emergency contact list of the valid subscriber;
- associating a permission with the emergency contact list, wherein the permission grants access to an entity requesting access based on a status of the entity requesting access;
- obtaining an access identifier;
- correlating the access identifier with the emergency contact list;
- and
- activating, by a subscriber server, the emergency contact service for the valid subscriber.
A method for providing a service in a telecommunication network, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to access an emergency contact service, wherein the emergency contact service is activated for a valid subscriber of a provider of the telecommunication network;
- determining whether an entity requesting access is authorized according to a first permission associated with an emergency contact list of a plurality of emergency contact lists stored in a data storage of the telecommunication network, wherein the first permission grants access based on a status of the entity requesting access;
- receiving an access identifier from the authorized entity;
- performing a look-up in a data storage using the access identifier as an index;
- and
- providing the emergency contact list that correlates with the access identifier.
A method for providing a service in a telecommunication network, the method comprising:
- obtaining an emergency contact list of a valid subscriber of a provider of the communication network;
- associating a first permission with the emergency contact list, wherein the first permission grants access to an entity requesting access based on a status of the entity requesting access;
- activating, by a subscriber server, the emergency contact service for the valid subscriber;
- receiving, by an Interactive Voice Response Server (IVRS), a request to access an emergency contact service;
- determining whether an entity requesting access is authorized according to the first permission;
- receiving an access identifier from the entity requesting access;
- and
- providing the emergency contact list that correlates with the access identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.