Patent ID: 6678514
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: G08B,H04W

Abstract:
A method for requesting emergency services in a wireless communication network for a plurality of customers using a common wireless communication device, the method comprising the steps of:maintaining a unique personal profile for each of said plurality of customers in a database permanently resident in said common wireless communications device, wherein each unique personal profile comprises at least one of medical and/or contact information about one of said plurality of customers; receiving a trigger from one of the plurality of customers; evaluating the trigger to identify said one of said plurality of customers; determining a geographic location of said one of said plurality of customers; and transmitting an electronic request for emergency services from said wireless communication device to said wireless communication network in response to said trigger, wherein the electronic request includes the geographic location of said customer and said unique personal profile associated with said identified one of said plurality of customers.