Patent ID: 8340630

Claim:
A method for use in providing emergency services to a locator device in a wireless communications network (WCN), wherein the locator device comprises first and second wireless transceiver modules, comprising: remotely triggering the locator device and thereby causing the locator device to employ the first wireless transceiver to communicate with a control center and to employ the second wireless transceiver to initiate an emergency services call to a public services answering point (PSAP); and providing information relating to the locator device from the control center to the PSAP using a backchannel communications channel from the control center to the PSAP, wherein the information relating to the locator device includes identifiers corresponding to the locator device, said identifiers being sufficient to enable the PSAP to associate information received at the PSAP from the locator device and the control center; wherein the backchannel communications channel is formed from a first data link from the control center, a digital communications network coupled to the first data link, and a second data link from the digital communications network to the PSAP; and wherein the communication between the locator device and the control center using the first transceiver is conducted via the WCN.