Patent ID: 8351895

Claim:
A wireless security device comprising: a processor; a wireless transceiver; a memory; and computer program instructions stored in the memory, which, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless security device to perform operations comprising: selecting and implementing a Bluetooth wireless protocol profile from one or more Bluetooth wireless protocol profiles for connecting to one or more Bluetooth enabled devices; wirelessly pairing, via the wireless transceiver over a personal area network, with a Bluetooth enabled telephony device using the selected Bluetooth wireless protocol profile, thus creating a wirelessly paired Bluetooth connection between the wireless security device and the telephony device; sending a command to the telephony device requesting one or more of: a telephone number of the telephony device; a telephone network providing service to the telephony device; and a global positioning system (GPS) location of the telephony device; receiving a response from the telephony device including one or more of: the telephone number of the telephony device; the telephone network providing service to the telephony device; and the GPS location of the telephony device; and determining a current location of the telephony device based on one or more of the telephone number, the telephone network, and the GPS location; accessing a lookup table stored in the memory including one or more location codes and one or more emergency telephone numbers associated with the one or more location codes; correlating the location with at least one of the one or more location codes to obtain at least one of the one or more emergency telephone numbers; sending a command, over the wirelessly paired Bluetooth connection, to the telephony device to place a telephone call to the at least one of the one or more emergency telephone numbers; and once the telephone call is placed, sending a prerecorded emergency message to the telephony device over the wirelessly paired Bluetooth connection, causing the telephony device to transmit the prerecorded emergency message.