Patent ID: 8265022

Claim:
An apparatus for making an emergency call within a network capable of packet-switched operation, the apparatus comprising: a microphone; one or more sensors; a radio transmitter; a processor in data communication with the transmitter; and a computer-readable apparatus comprising media comprising a computer program having a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor: continuously capture and digitally analyze voice into a plurality of first packets; encode one or more parameters associated with the apparatus or a platform on which the apparatus is carried into one or more second packets; generate the plurality of packets for transmission at least in part from an interspersing of the plurality of first packets with the one or more second packets; establish a session, wherein the session routes the interspersed plurality of first packets and one or more second packets; and transmit the interspersed plurality of packets via the radio transmitter across a wireless network.