Patent ID: 9560506
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by one or more server devices and from a device associated with a first user, an indication that contact information for a third user should be stored as emergency contact information for the first user, the indication being based on a manual indication provided by the first user, via the device associated with the first user; notifying, by the one or more server devices, the third user that the first user has indicated that the contact information for the third user should be stored as emergency contact information for the first user, the notifying including: receiving, by the one or more server devices and from a particular user device, a request for emergency contact information associated with the first user, the request including information identifying the first user; determining, by the one or more server devices, a geographic location of the device associated with the first user, the determining including: dynamically identifying, by the one or more server devices, a second user, the identifying being based on: identifying, by the one or more server devices, contact information associated with the second user; ranking, by the one or more server devices, the second user and the third user with respect to each other, wherein the ranking is based at least on the third user having been manually identified by the first user and the second user having been dynamically identified; and outputting, by the one or more server devices and to the particular user device from which the request was received, the contact information associated with the second user and the third user, the contact information being presented as part of a ranked list, that is based on the ranking.