Provisioning access points to mobile devices for emergency calls
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorMohammad Jamil Noor
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described herein for provisioning mobile devices to wireless access points to provide 911 and other emergency services to the mobile devices via communication networks, such as wireless communication networks. For example, the systems and methods provide a mobile device with the functionality to determine cell sites are unavailable at a location or and provision one or more access points for 911 and emergency communications.
Claims11
A non-transitory computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by a wireless router, cause the wireless router to perform a method for connecting to a mobile device, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the wireless router, a request from the mobile device to utilize the wireless router as an access point to a communications network for emergency communications between the mobile device and the communications network;
- determining the request includes access credentials specifically associated with provisioning the wireless router as the access point for emergency communications between the mobile device and the communications network;
- and
- connecting the mobile device to the communications network via the wireless router based in part on the access credentials specifically associated with provisioning the wireless router as the access point for emergency communications.
A method performed by a mobile device for establishing a communications path to an Internet Multimedia System (IMS) communications network for IMS Multimedia Emergency Session (MES) calls placed by the mobile device to the IMS communications network, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication that one or more attempts to connect with the IMS communications network over a cellular access network have failed;
- identifying a wireless access point available to the mobile device;
- and
- transmitting a provisioning request to the wireless access point to provision the mobile device to the wireless access point for placing IMS MES calls to the IMS communications network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.