System and method for providing personal and emergency service hailing in wireless network

A communication system comprising:

• a plurality of emergency service;
• and
• a central communication proximity server, communicatively coupled to the plurality of emergency service, the central communications proximity server comprising:
• a processor;
• a memory, communicatively coupled to the processor;
• a profile database, communicatively coupled to the processor and the memory, storing a respective profile for each of a plurality of wireless communications devices, the respective profile for each of the plurality of wireless communications devices comprising at least one individualized distance threshold for each of the plurality of wireless communications devices;
• and
• a proximity service handler, communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory and the profile database, adapted to, in response to receiving a wireless message proximity emergency service request from a requesting wireless communications device within a plurality of wireless communications devices, perform the following:
• compute distances between a location of the requesting wireless communications device and a respective location of each of a plurality of emergency service;
• compare each of the distances to the at least one individualized distance threshold within the respective profile that is stored within the-profile database for the first wireless communications device;
• identify, in response to the comparing, a set of emergency service that satisfy the at least one individualized distance threshold within the respective profile for the requesting wireless communications device;
• and
• send an identification of the requesting wireless communications device to the set of emergency service that satisfies the at least one individualized distance threshold associated with the requesting wireless communications device.

A method, comprising:

• maintaining a profile database adapted to store a respective profile for each respective wireless communications device within a plurality of wireless communications devices, the respective profile for each wireless communications device comprising at least one respective individualized distance threshold for the respective wireless communications device;
• sending, from a requesting wireless communications device within the plurality of wireless communications devices, a wireless message proximity request;
• receiving, at a proximity service handler from the requesting wireless communications device, the wireless message proximity request;
• computing, at the proximity service handler in response to receiving the wireless message proximity request, distances between a location of the requesting wireless communications device and a respective location of each of a plurality of other wireless communications devices;
• comparing at the proximity service handler each of the distances to the at least one individualized distance threshold within the respective profile that is stored within the profile database for the requesting wireless communications device;
• identifying, at the proximity service handler in response to comparing each of the distances, a set of wireless communications devices consisting of a plurality of wireless communications devices within the plurality of other wireless communications devices that satisfy the at least one individualized distance threshold within the respective profile for the requesting wireless communications device;
• and
• sending, in response to identifying the set of wireless communications devices, a wireless message proximity response to the requesting wireless communications device identifying thereto the set of wireless communications devices consisting of the plurality of wireless communications devices that satisfy the at least one individualized distance threshold.