Patent ID: 9609497
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method, performed by at least one computer device, the method comprising: receiving, by the at least one computer device, a request from a wireless user device to set up a packet connection for an emergency session to a packet data network via a wireless access network; determining, by the at least one computer device, a location associated with the wireless user device; identifying, by the at least one computer device, a public safety answering point associated with the determined location; determining, by the at least one computer device, whether a connection capacity associated with the identified public safety answering point has been reached based on information stored in a public safety answering point database included in the wireless access network and associated with the at least one computer device; and rejecting, by the computer device, the request to set up the packet connection for the emergency session, in response to determining that the connection capacity associated with the identified public safety answering point has been reached.