Patent ID: 8010079

Claim:
An apparatus for use as a Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) adaptor at a user location and in facilitating emergency services, comprising: a first interface for communicating signals to and from a telephone; a second interface for communicating signals to and from an Internet Protocol (IP) network; a processor operatively coupled to said first and second interfaces; and a non-transitory computer readable medium, operatively coupled to said processor, comprising instructions for causing the processor to detect a user's initiation of an emergency call by said telephone, and automatically obtain location information and provide said location information to an emergency services operator, said instructions including at least one of (i) instructions for automatically obtaining location information when the apparatus is turned on, and (ii) instructions for automatically obtaining location information when the emergency call is detected; said instructions for providing said location information to an emergency services operator including instructions for connecting the emergency call to a PSAP (Public Service Answering Point) via the IP network with a Pseudo-ANI in place of the calling number; said instructions for providing said location information to an emergency services operator further including instructions for providing location information including at least one of a calibrated offset and a computed offset.