Patent ID: 9614975
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for providing information, to an emergency response center, about a building at which an emergency has occurred, the method comprising the steps of: prior to the emergency, a first computer located within the building storing an electronic diagram of an interior of the building in a database accessible to the first computer, the first computer being connected to a communications network, wherein the building is a home owned by an individual person; prior to the emergency, the first computer receiving from a user of a telephone a registration of a telephone number of the emergency response center such that a subsequent call from the telephone to the telephone number will initiate transmission of the electronic diagram from the first computer to the emergency response center, the telephone located within the building and wired to the communications network; the first computer storing the telephone number of the emergency response center in the database; the first computer monitoring outgoing calls from the telephone within the building to identify an outgoing call dialed by the individual person from the telephone in the building; the first computer determining whether or not the identified outgoing call is the telephone number of the emergency response center stored in the database; in response to the first computer having determined that the outgoing call is the telephone number of the emergency response center stored in the database, the first computer automatically transmitting, via the communications network: (i) the electronic diagram to a second computer of the emergency response center to enable the emergency response center to access the electronic diagram to facilitate handling of the emergency at the building and (ii) emergency data having relevance to the emergency to the second computer of the emergency response center and to a plurality of emergency responders available to respond to the emergency, wherein the emergency responders are associated with the emergency response center, and wherein the emergency data transmitted to each emergency responder is specific to each emergency responder.