Patent ID: 6587545
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A system for providing expanded emergency service communication in a telecommunication network; said telecommunication network including a plurality of junctions connected by a plurality of communication channels, a plurality of telecommunication service providing stations connected into said plurality of communication channels at at least one of said for effecting a plurality of various telecommunication milieux for communication among at least one telecommunication services providing station of said plurality of telecommunication service providing stations, at least one emergency service complex, at least one emergency service answering position, and at least one expanded service subscriber; the system comprising:(a) a service request acquisition subsystem; (b) an information store; (c) a notification facility; and (d) a dispatch facility; said service request acquisition subsystem, said information store, said notification facility and said dispatch facility being distributed among said telecommunication network; the system effecting transfer of pertinent information from said information store to said dispatch facility based upon emergency request information acquired by said acquisition subsystem; said transfer being effected via a public switched telephone network; the system effecting notification of selected expanded service subscribers of said at least one expanded service subscriber based upon said emergency request information.