Patent ID: 8369821

Claim:
An emergency services automatic dialing device, comprising: a wireless receiver for receiving, from a portable transceiver, a signal indicating that a panic button has been pushed and for receiving speech from a user of the portable transceiver; a memory for storing a list of at least one alternate number that may be called before dialing an emergency services number; a dialer for calling the at least one alternate number in the list before dialing the emergency services number; a detector for detecting a status of the call to the at least one alternate number in the list, wherein the dialer dials the emergency services number if the detector does not detect that a callee at the at least one alternate number in the list has indicated that the emergency services number does not need to be called; a voice transmitter for providing speech from the user of the portable transceiver to the callee upon the callee answering a call; and a message playback device configured to play a recorded message to the callee of the at least one alternate number in the list and configured not to play any message after the emergency services number has been called.