Patent ID: 8340629

Claim:
A method of contacting a public safety answering point (PSAP), the steps comprising: (a) determining the location of a vehicle; (b) communicating the location of the vehicle to a PSAP location service; (c) identifying a PSAP proximate to the location of the vehicle; (d) determining a direct inward dialing (DID) number associated with the identified PSAP at the PSAP location service, wherein the DID number corresponds to a public telephone number or a seven digit number capable of directing voice communications to the identified PSAP; (e) communicating the DID number to a call center from the PSAP location service; (f) contacting the identified PSAP from the call center using the DID number; and (g) transmitting a pseudo automatic number identifier (P-ANI), the DID number of the identified PSAP and the location of the vehicle from the call center to the PSAP.