Patent ID: 9401986
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of detecting a prank emergency call, comprising: logging, to a physical prank call database, a unique global identifier assigned to a first prank emergency call from a given wireless device; logging, to said physical prank call database, a first current location of said given wireless device initiating said first prank emergency call; subsequently receiving a subsequent emergency call; obtaining a subsequent current location of a subsequent wireless device while making said subsequent emergency call; querying said physical prank call database for a correlation between said subsequent current location of said subsequent emergency call, and said first current location of said first prank emergency call; and dropping said subsequent emergency call when said correlation is established between said first current location of said first prank emergency call and said subsequent current location of said subsequent emergency call.