Patent ID: 8472916

Claim:
A method for generating an emergency text message, the method comprising: receiving, at a wireless communication device, a request to communicate an emergency text message and a selection of a type of emergency text message; in response to receiving the request to communicate an emergency text message, accessing, with the wireless communication device, stored personal data for use in generating content of the emergency text message; further in response to receiving the request to communicate an emergency text message, determining, with the wireless communication device, that current location coordinates are not available within a time period; in response to determining that the current location coordinates are not available within the time period, populating, with the wireless communication device, the emergency text message with information associated with the selection of the type of emergency text message and the accessed stored personal data; communicating, with the wireless communication device, the populated emergency text message over a communications network as a first emergency text message; and further in response to determining that the current location coordinates are not available within the time period, requesting, with the wireless communication device, current location coordinates; in response to receiving the current location coordinates, populating, with the wireless communication device, a second emergency text message with the current location coordinates; and communicating, with the wireless communication device, the second emergency text message over the communications network.