US 8,942,355 B1 · Optimizing identification of public safety answering platform next generation 911 media support

Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for generating a profile for public safety answering platforms. The profile identifies media formats or media format combinations that are supported by the PSAPs at various cell sector locations maintained by a network provider. A network server selects a cell sector and generates test emergency services calls. The test emergency services calls are transmitted to a PSAP but are optimized to reduce a number of test emergency services calls based on media support included in the profile of the PSAP. The PSAP generates a response that indicates whether the PSAP supports a media format identified in the test emergency services call. The PSAP may rely on capabilities of a secondary PSAP to generate the response. The PSAP transmits the response to the network server for storage in the profile.

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Dependent claims

A network server configured to generate public safety answering platform (PSAP) profiles, the network server comprising:

a communication interface connected to a wireless network having multiple PSAPs, wherein the test emergency calls are transmitted to a PSAP and are configured to identify at least one media format that is supported by the wireless network;
and
a database to store PSAP profiles for each of the multiple PSAPs, wherein the network server updates the database based on a response to the test emergency calls provided by the PSAP.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Optimizing identification of public safety answering platform next generation 911 media support

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Optimizing identification of public safety answering platform next generation 911 media support

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Abstract

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