Emergency call system and method
AssigneeOberthur Technologies
InventorsAlexis Michel, Jerome Dumoulin
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Abstract
An example of an emergency call system includes a device for triggering an emergency call and a communications device having a secure element. In various implementations, the secure element includes at least two profiles, one of which is an emergency profile; and a receiver that receives, over a local communications channel, an event issued by the device for triggering an emergency call. The communications device may also include means for activating the emergency profile, which enables emergency calls to be made in a communications network if the emergency profile is not already active. The communications device may also include means for calling an emergency number in the communications network in order to make the emergency call.
Claims16
An emergency call system comprising:
- a device for triggering an emergency call;
- and
- a communications device having a secure element, the secure element comprising:
- a memory that includes at least two profiles including an emergency profile and an operational profile;
- an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) microcircuit having security domains containing the at least two profiles;
- and
- a processor, operably connected to the memory, that performs operations comprising:
- receiving, over a local communications channel, an event issued by the device for triggering the emergency call;
- determining that the emergency profile is inactive;
- in response to determining that the emergency profile is inactive:
- storing an identifier of the operational profile that is currently active;
- activating, by the embedded eUICC microcircuit, the emergency profile to enable emergency calls to be made in a communications network;
- and
- restarting the secure element causing data of the emergency profile to be read;
- and
- calling an emergency number in said communications network in order to make said emergency call, wherein the emergency call is used for communicating data for locating the emergency call and for enabling the communication device to be called on a predetermined number associated with the operational profile, said data being stored in the emergency profile.
An emergency call method performed by a secure element comprising:
- a memory that includes at least two profiles including an emergency profile and an operational profile;
- an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) microcircuit having security domains containing the at least two profiles;
- and
- a processor, operably connected to the memory;
- wherein the secure element is included in a communications device operably connected to a device for triggering an emergency call,
- the emergency call method comprising:
- receiving, from the communications device, an event for triggering the emergency call via a local communications channel;
- determining that the emergency profile is inactive;
- in response to determining that the emergency profile is inactive:
- storing an identifier of the operational profile that is currently active;
- activating, by the embedded eUICC microcircuit, the emergency profile to enable emergency calls to be made in a communications network;
- and
- restarting the secure element causing data of the emergency profile to be read;
- and
- calling an emergency number in said communications network in order to make said emergency call, wherein the emergency call is used for communicating data for locating the emergency call and for enabling the communication device to be called on a predetermined number associated with the operational profile, said data being stored in the emergency profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.