Emergency call system and method
AssigneeOberthur Technologies
InventorsAlexis MICHEL, Jerome DUMOULIN
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Abstract
An embodiment of an emergency call system comprises a device for triggering an emergency call and a communications device having a secure element. In various implementations, the secure element includes at least two profiles, one of which is an emergency profile; means suitable for receiving, over a local communications channel, an event issued by the device for triggering an emergency call; means for activating an emergency profile, enabling emergency calls to be made in a communications network, if said profile is not already active; and means for calling an emergency number in said network in order to make said emergency call.
Claims11
An emergency call system comprising:
- a device for triggering an emergency call;
- and
- a communications device having a secure element, the secure element comprising:
- at least two profiles, one of which is an emergency profile;
- means suitable for receiving, over a local communications channel, an event issued by the device for triggering the emergency call;
- means for activating the emergency profile, enabling emergency calls to be made in a communications network, if said emergency profile is not already active;
- and
- means for calling an emergency number in said communications network in order to make said emergency call.
An emergency call method performed by a secure element having at least two profiles, one of which is an emergency profile, said secure element being included in a communications device operably connected to a device for triggering an emergency call, the method comprising:
- receiving, from the communications device, an event for triggering the emergency call via a local communications channel;
- activating the emergency profile enabling emergency calls to be made in a communications network, if said emergency profile is not already active;
- and
- calling an emergency number in said communications network in order to make said emergency call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.