Method and system to provision emergency contact services in a communication network
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsBernard Ku, Mehrad Yasrebi, James Jackson
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Abstract
A method includes receiving a query at a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server, the query identifying an emergency telephone number associated with a subscriber to an emergency contact service. The method also includes retrieving from the ENUM server, in response to the query, one or more emergency contact Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) associated with the subscriber, where each of the emergency contact URIs has an associated emergency contact indicator. The method also includes initiating routing of a communication to destination devices associated with each retrieved emergency contact URI via an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).
Claims25
A communication system comprising:
- a telephone number mapping server comprising data associated with a plurality of user accounts, the telephone number mapping server configured to map an emergency telephone number associated with one of the user accounts to one or more records, wherein each of the one or more records includes:
- a uniform resource identifier associated with a corresponding emergency contact destination device;
- and
- an emergency contact indicator to indicate that the uniform resource identifier is associated with the corresponding emergency contact destination device.
A method comprising:
- receiving a query at a telephone number mapping server, the query identifying an emergency telephone number associated with a subscriber to an emergency contact service;
- retrieving from the telephone number mapping server, in response to the query, one or more emergency contact uniform resource identifiers associated with the subscriber, wherein each of the emergency contact uniform resource identifiers has an associated emergency contact indicator;
- and
- initiating routing of a communication to destination devices associated with each retrieved emergency contact uniform resource identifier via an internet protocol multimedia subsystem.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a telephone number mapping server, uniform resource identifier data related to a user, wherein the uniform resource identifier data is associated with a device that is associated with an emergency contact of the user;
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- storing a record in the telephone number mapping server that includes the uniform resource identifier data and an emergency contact indicator indicating that the uniform resource identifier data is associated with the emergency contact of the user.
A non-transitory computer readable medium including computer executable instructions to cause a processor to:
- receive a query at a telephone number mapping server via an emergency telephone number associated with a subscriber to an emergency contact service;
- retrieve from the telephone number mapping server, in response to the query, one or more emergency contact uniform resource identifiers associated with the subscriber, wherein each emergency contact uniform resource identifier has an associated emergency identifier;
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- initiate routing of a communication to each of the one or more retrieved emergency contact uniform resource identifiers via an interne protocol multimedia subsystem.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.