Method and apparatus for emergency number awareness
AssigneeSiemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsMarcel Manzardo, William J. Beyda
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Abstract
A telecommunications device includes a laptop computer having a telephony soft client that may run, for example, in a browser window. The telephony soft client includes a utility to allow it to determine the laptop's local external IP address and from it, the local country. The telephony soft client then performs a lookup of the local country's emergency telephone number, either from a local table or from a specially maintained remote database. The local emergency telephone number can then be displayed, or programmed to a “quick dial” key.
Claims20
A method for determining a local country emergency telephone number, comprising:
- a user device determining a local IP address of the user device;
- the user device determining local country information corresponding to a current location of the user device using the local IP address of the user device;
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- the user device obtaining the local country emergency telephone number using the local country information;
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- wherein the local IP address of the user device is dependent upon a communications network to which the user device is connected.
A mobile computing device, comprising:
- a processor that determines a local IP address of the mobile computing device, that determines a current location of the mobile computing device, and that determines a local country emergency telephone number based on the current location of the mobile computing device;
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- wherein the processor uses the local IP address to determine the current location of the mobile computing device;
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- wherein the local IP address of the mobile computing device is dependent upon a communications network to which the mobile computing device is connected.
A telecommunications device, comprising:
- a network interface contained in a non-transitory medium located in the telecommunications device configured to couple the telecommunications device to a voice network and the Internet;
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- an emergency number utility contained in the non-transitory medium operably coupled to the network interface and configured to determine a situs country of the telecommunications device and to program an emergency telephone number corresponding to the situs country;
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- wherein the emergency number utility determines the situs country of the telecommunications device using a local IP address of the telecommunications device;
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- wherein the local IP address of the telecommunications device is dependent upon a communications network to which the telecommunications device is connected;
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- wherein the emergency number utility transcribes the local country emergency telephone to the telecommunications device such that when an origin country emergency number is dialed the local country emergency telephone number is called.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.