Patent ID: 7068760

Claim:
A communications system comprising: a communications network for communicating a communications signal from a calling party's communications device to an emergency response communications address, the communications network comprising an Emergency Locator DataServer for storing an Emergency Locator Profile, the Emergency Locator Profile comprising (i) an originating communications address associated with a calling party's communications device, (ii) a communications address of a residential communications network, (iii) a communications device associated with the communications address of the residential communications network, (iv) an identifier of a house location of the communications device, (v) a parameter for activating position locating transmission means to locate at least one of the calling party's communications device and the communications device, (vi) a parameter for deactivating position locating transmission means, and (vii) a parameter for monitoring the position locating transmission means; an Emergency Locator Application communicating with the communications network, the Emergency Locator Application generating an Emergency Locator Signal, the Emergency Locator Signal comprising at least an identifier of a communications address of the residential communications network, wherein the communications network communicates the Emergency Locator Signal to a residential communications network to identify a near real-time location of at least one of the calling party's communications device at a geographic location of an Emergency Communications Address and the communications device at the geographic location of the Emergency Communications Address.