Patent ID: 9066201
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication system which routes communications between user devices and emergency service providers, the method comprising: monitoring communication requests for emergency communication sessions between the user devices and service nodes of the emergency service providers to determine which media types of the communication requests are supported by the service nodes receiving the communication requests; identifying geographic locations of the user devices for the communication requests; identifying the service nodes receiving the communication requests; creating a data structure correlating the geographic locations of the user devices and identifiers of the service nodes to the media types supported by the service nodes; receiving communication requests from further user devices for emergency communication sessions; processing at least geographic locations of the further user devices and media types of the communication requests against the data structure to determine which of the media types are supported by the geographic locations of the further user devices; and indicating to the further user devices which of the media types are supported for associated ones of the communication requests.