Patent ID: 8818324

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a call processing system configured to receive from a device a call request for emergency service indicating a device identifier, process the call request to setup a call for the emergency service between the device and a public safety answering point, transfer an initiation request including the device identifier to a location determination system to initiate a first determination process to determine a location of the device; the location determination system configured to, prior to the call processing system receiving the call request from the device, receive a data structure from a provisioning system; the location determination system further configured to receive the initiation request from the call processing system, responsively process the data structure to select a first determination process from a plurality of determination processes wherein the data structure includes a plurality of records indicating different ranges of device identifiers and location capabilities and wherein a first record of the plurality of records indicates a first range of the different ranges and indicates a first location capability of the location capabilities and wherein each of the plurality of determination processes corresponds to each of the location capabilities; and the provisioning system configured to, prior to the call processing system receiving the call request from the device, process the data structure to determine if each of the location capabilities indicated in each of the records are correct for each of the different ranges indicated in each of the records, transfer the data structure to the location determination system if each of the location capabilities are correct, and generate a error response if each of the location capabilities are not correct.