Patent ID: 7483519
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A computer program product storing processor executable instructions for performing a method, the method comprising: receiving a first communication from a sender's communications address to an emergency response communications address; associating the sender's communications address and the emergency response communications address to an emergency alert profile, the emergency alert profile storing emergency information associated with the sender's communications address; prompting the sender's communications device during the first communication at the sender's communications address to select a parameter that remotely controls an emergency alert; receiving the parameter; ending the first communication between the sender's communications address and the emergency response communications address; establishing a second communication with the sender at the sender's communications address after the sender ends the first communication with the emergency response communications address; prompting the sender during the second communication to enter a code that blocks generation of an emergency remote control communication; retrieving an identifier of the emergency alert from the emergency alert profile; generating the emergency alert control communication when the code is not entered; and sending the emergency alert control communication to the sender's communications address during an off-hook state of the second communication with the sender at the sender's communications address, the emergency alert control communication activating the emergency alert.