Patent ID: 8208955
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A Voice-over-Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) phone server operable on a data network to communicate with VoIP phones to receive VoIP call requests and make VoIP call connections to the VoIP phones, and to communicate with VoIP phone connectors on the network to receive an identifier or other location information from the VoIP phone connectors, the VoIP phone connectors fixedly mounted in a building hosting the data network and interposed between VoIP phones and LAN routers on the network, the VoIP phone server comprising: a network connection operable to receive data, including the VoIP call requests and the identifier or other location information, from the network; call-routing control circuitry in communication with the network connection, the call-routing control circuitry operable to receive and route the received call requests; emergency call detection circuitry in communication with the network connection, the emergency call detection circuitry operable to detect an emergency call request from among the received call requests; emergency location identification circuitry in communication with the network connection and operable to receive the identifier or other location information from the VoIP phone connector through which the detected emergency call request was made, and to access a location database to determine campus location information and/or caller information associated with the identified VoIP phone connector; an external communication network connection over which the VoIP phone server is operable to route VoIP calls in response to the received VoIP call requests and to route emergency calls and to communicate the location information and/or caller information to a public safety answering point; and control circuitry in communication with the call-routing control circuitry, with the emergency call detection circuitry, and with the emergency location identification circuitry, the control circuitry operable to direct the call-routing control circuitry in routing VoIP call requests, operable to communicate with the emergency call detection circuitry to detect an incoming emergency call from a VoIP phone, and upon detecting an incoming emergency call directing the emergency location identification circuitry to retrieve the location information and/or caller information, to route the emergency call, and to communicate the location information and/or caller information to the public safety answering point.