Patent ID: 8301765

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a first server, a notification indicating that an event has occurred, the notification including information regarding a geographic area associated with the event; sending, by the first server and to a second server, a request, for network content, based on the notification; receiving, by the first server and from the second server, the network content for a plurality of user devices, the network content including location information for the plurality of user devices and incident information, and the incident information indicating that an incident is associated with one or more user devices of the plurality of user devices; generating, by the first server, geo fence information based on the information regarding the geographic area associated with the event, the geo fence information including coordinates that define boundaries for a geo fence that surrounds the geographic area associated with the event; generating, by the first server and based on the geo fence information, state information, for the one or more user devices the state information including a portion of the location information associated with the one or more user devices; sending, to a third server, the state information; receiving, by the first server and from the second server, other network content for the plurality of user devices, the other network content including information associated with two or more emergency calls and other location information for the plurality of user devices; determining, based on the other network content, that at least two user devices, of the plurality of user devices, placed the two or more emergency calls; determining, by the first server and based on the location information, that a potential event exists when one of the at least two user devices was located at a distance that was less than or equal to a particular threshold relative to another one of the at least two user devices; and sending, by the first server and to the third server, information associated with the potential event after determining that the potential event exists.