Patent ID: 7929942
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling a wireless communication over a network in response to an indication of an emergency, the method comprising: in response to a call associated with said emergency, causing a base station to provide a wireless backhaul link in an uplink frequency band for further sending said call over said network; accepting said call and associated information even when said network is being off line; storing said call and said associated information; swapping a transmit frequency band with a receiver frequency band to reconfigure the base station into a terminal; forwarding said call over said wireless backhaul link when a fixed wired backbone network link indicates a malfunction, wherein storing said call further comprises: detecting whether a link to a backbone network is available; and if so, uploading information associated with said call using at least one of a satellite connection, a wireless local area network connection, a WiMAX connection, a UMTS link and a CDMA link to another base station having a backhaul connectivity.