Method and system for an emergency location information service (E-LIS) from wearable devices
US8918075B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 13, 2014 |
| Grant date | Dec 23, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 13, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W76/50
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for determining and verifying a location of wearable mobile devices (e.g., digital glasses, watches, etc.) in emergency situations with emergency messages including legacy 911, E911 and text-to-911 messages. The method and system provide a current physical geographic location for wearable mobile devices (e.g., spot, chair, desk on in a room on a building floor, campus, enterprise, city, state, region, country, continent, etc.), in an emergency situation such as an accident, fire, terrorist attack, military incident, weather, flood event, etc. and forward the current physical geographic location to a legacy 911 network, a Emergency Services IP networks (ESInet) or text-to-911 Short Message Services (SMS) networks.
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