Patent ID: 8718592
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, coordinated from a switch, for determining a location of a mobile device and providing the location to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), the method comprising: while engaging in an emergency services communication over a macronetwork, and while the mobile device is in range of one or more micronetworks, determining whether at least one macronetwork-based location determination technique from a set of macronetwork-based location determination techniques is available, if at least one macronetwork-based location determination technique of the set of macronetwork-based location determination techniques is available and if the at least one macronetwork-based location determination technique has an accuracy equal or exceeding the corresponding desired accuracy of determination of the mobile device, otherwise, while continuing the emergency services communication over the macronetwork,