Enhanced emergency services for fixed wireless customer premises equipment
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsKamlesh S. Kamdar, Sergio Aguirre, Raafat Edward Kamel, Lalit R. Kotecha
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Abstract
A gateway device, provided in a customer premises, receives a call from a user device, and detects dialed information associated with the call. The gateway device identifies the call as an emergency call based on the dialed information, and terminates all other calls communicated by the gateway device except for the emergency call. The gateway device notifies an outdoor broadband unit, associated with the customer premises, about the emergency call.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a gateway device provided in a customer premises, a call from a user device;
- detecting, by the gateway device, dialed information associated with the call;
- identifying, by the gateway device, the call as an emergency call based on the dialed information;
- terminating, by the gateway device, all other calls communicated by the gateway device except for the emergency call;
- and
- providing, by the gateway device, the emergency call and a notification about the emergency call to an outdoor broadband unit located at the customer premises, wherein providing the notification about the emergency call comprises:
- notifying a Long Term Evolution (LTE) module, provided in the outdoor broadband unit, about the emergency call.
A gateway device provided in a customer premises, the gateway device comprising:
- a memory to store a plurality of instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute instructions in the memory to:
- receive a call from a user device,
- detect dialed information associated with the call,
- determine that the call is an emergency call based on the dialed information,
- terminate all other calls, associated with the customer premises and provided to or received by the gateway device, except for the emergency call,
- notify an outdoor broadband unit about the emergency call, where the outdoor broadband unit is located at the customer premises, wherein, when notifying the outdoor broadband unit about the emergency call, the processor further executes instructions in the memory to:
- notify a Long Term Evolution (LTE) module, provided in the outdoor broadband unit, about the emergency call, and
- provide the emergency call to the outdoor broadband unit.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a Long Term Evolution (LTE) module provided in an outdoor broadband unit located at a customer premises, a notification of an emergency call received by a gateway device, wherein the outdoor broadband unit and the gateway device are provided in a customer premises network of the customer premises;
- receiving, by the outdoor broadband unit, the emergency call;
- ceasing, by the outdoor broadband unit and based on the notification, all communications associated with the customer premises network, other than the emergency call;
- informing, by the outdoor broadband unit, a radio network about an urgency of the emergency call;
- and
- instructing, by the outdoor broadband unit, the radio network to bypass authentication or billing associated with the emergency call.
An outdoor broadband unit located at a customer premises network, the outdoor broadband unit comprising:
- a Long Term Evolution (LTE) module to:
- receive a first notification of an emergency call received by a gateway device provided in the customer premises network,
- provide, based on the first notification, a second notification of the emergency call to a broadband home router (BHR) of the outdoor broadband unit,
- inform a radio network about an urgency of the emergency call, and
- instruct the radio network to bypass authentication or billing associated with the emergency call;
- and
- wherein the BHR is configured to:
- cease, based on the second notification, all communications associated with the customer premises network, other than the emergency call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.