Patent ID: 8565384

Claim:
A method for connecting emergency communications, comprising: receiving an emergency communication at a particular public safety answering point from a caller directed to the particular public safety answering point by a location-to-service system; automatically creating a conference on a conference system in response to the particular public safety answering point accepting the emergency communication prior to communications between a particular call-taker and the caller; selecting the particular call-taker of a plurality of call-takers; sending the particular call-taker an invitation to accept the emergency communication; receiving an indication that the particular call-taker has accepted the emergency communication; in response to receiving the indication that the particular call-taker has accepted the emergency communication, connecting the selected call-taker to the conference; connecting the caller to the conference; determining the location of the caller; querying the location-to-service system to identify at least one particular emergency responder of a plurality of emergency responders; and connecting at least one of the at least one particular emergency responder to the conference.