Patent ID: 8280343

Claim:
A method for providing contact information of a mobile device to a reverse 911 database, the method comprising: receiving, by a data processing system at a mobile switching center, a registration request from the mobile device; acquiring, by the data processing system, the contact information of the mobile device; determining, by the data processing system, whether the mobile device is a new device to a wireless sub-network; responsive to the mobile device being a new device to the wireless sub-network, passing, by the data processing system, the contact information of the mobile device from the mobile switching center to a reverse 911 database to add the contact information of the mobile device to the reverse 911 database; requesting, by the data processing system, an acknowledgement from the reverse 911 database confirming that the reverse 911 database has been successfully updated with the contact information of the mobile device; and receiving, at the data processing system, the acknowledgment from the reverse 911 database.